HUMAN RESOURCES

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• Employment: Faculty
• Employment: Staff
• Employment: Students

FINANCES

• Accounts Payable
• Payments & Reimbursements
• Accounts Receivable
• Purchasing
• Student/Activity Finance Information
• Foreign Travel Requirements
• Event Planning
• Frequently Asked Questions

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• WCL Phone Directory
• Holiday Schedule
• New WCL Staff Guide

American University Washington College of Law Foreign Travel

Faculty and Staff Foreign Travel:

Email: To WCL Finance and Administration financestaff@wcl.american.edu four to two weeks in advance of travel:

• Name of Participant(s):
• Status: Faculty/Staff
• Department Arranging Travel:
• Exact Destination (Country, City and date in each if more than one stop):
• Number of Weeks/Days:
• Purpose of Travel: Three to four sentences
• Security Rating of destination (if the rating is high, 4 or 5, fax or email an assumption of risk form from the traveler for AU records) Risk The form can be found here: http://www.american.edu/finance/assumption_of_risk.pdf

Student Foreign Travel:

Forward a memo (hard copy) to WCL Finance and Administration 6-8 weeks prior to travelling (no exceptions).

• The memo should be addressed to the Provost Office of AU, and Cc'ed to Dean of WCL.
• List of Participants (if more then five (5) participants please forward electronic version as well), AUID# and Status
• Itinerary, exact date and name of city, country
• Contingency and Communication Plan
• Purpose of Travel

Submitted with:

• Copies of completed Consent Forms for each student participant. Originals need to stay at WCL Finance.
• Please forward an attendance list with signatures or email confirmation that pre-departure meeting/information has been given to all participants.
• WCL Finance needs to secure the Dean's authorization on memorandum and forward's all paperwork to AU Provost Office.
• Risk Assessment Reports-WCL Finance prints these:
• WCL Finance keeps one complete copy of all documentation on file for three years
• All approved travelers are signed up for Global Accident & Health Protection Coverage. To read more go to AU's Risk Management website: http://www.american.edu/finance/rmo/index.html.
• All travel is subject to cancelation by American University if the security level changes.