Professional Development, Scholarship, and Research

American University for Health Sciences (AUHS) encourages its faculty to engage in professional development, scholarship, research, and creative activities and has created the following policy to support such activities. All activities must be pre- approved by AUHS in order to qualify for reimbursement as described below:

The following conditions apply:

• The professional development activity must be pre-approved, be related to the faculty position at AUHS, and be listed on the faculty member’s annual development plan.• Faculty members will receive their usual pay for the day if the activity occurs on a regularly scheduled workday. If the event occurs on an unscheduled workday, such as a Sunday, the employee will not be provided extra pay for this time.
• The reimbursement amount allotted above includes all incurred expenses for travel, accommodation, associated fees, conference registration fees and meals.
• Presentations at professional conferences require the following for approval:
  º A copy of the power point slides/handouts must be provided to AUHS in advance in order to receive preapproval for the conference reimbursement.
  º A copy of the letter from the sponsoring professional organization indicating invitation and acceptance of the presentation.
• Receipts and other documentation of expenses must be provided when requesting reimbursement.
• The Professional Development form must be completed and approved prior to the event in order to qualify reimbursement.