Course Budgets
Course budgets support the basic, essential costs of instruction, including reproduction of course syllabi and examination materials, salaries of teaching assistants for courses with large enrollments, and the acquisition of certain limited material required to initiate instruction. Course packs, readers and extensive photocopying of materials for class handouts are not included in the course budget and will be term billed. Students must be notified of term billing by the instructor prior to the end of the term.
Instructional materials such as slides, photographs, maps, drawings, etc. acquired with the course budget are the property of the GSD. The decision to purchase such material should be made only after consultation with Hugh Wilburn, the librarian, to avoid unnecessary duplication. The library is equipped to prepare slides from printed materials at a reasonable cost.
Course budgets are normally not available to fund field trips; such expenses are to be covered by sponsored program funds or by students.
Studio course budgets cannot be used to purchase student supplies or build base models, as they are a student expense in lieu of books.
The standard honorarium rate for a juror or lecturer is $100. In addition, persons coming from outside the Boston metropolitan area may be reimbursed for coach airfare or mileage at $0.34 cents/mile. Honoraria, as well as the number of jurors for each studio, are subject to the approval of the department chair and to the availability of funding in the course budget.
Please note that course budgets are not to be used for entertainment or meals, whether with students, other faculty, or visiting critics.
Faculty budgets for travel, salary, and course budgets are distinct funds and cannot be used interchangeably.