Financial Services

• Cash Management & Investment Policy (PDF)
• Debt Policy (PDF)
• Identity Theft Program (PDF)
• Internal Control Plan (PDF)
• Internal Control Implementation Guide (PDF)
• Preventing and Reporting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Policy (PDF)
• Summary of the Conflict of Interest Law (PDF)
• Whistleblower Policy (PDF)

• Who Should Read This
• Definitions
• Travel Authorization
• Domestic Air Travel
• Foreign Air Travel
• Rental Vehicle
• Personal Vehicles
• Lodging
• Mileage
• Travel Information
• Travel Advances
• Tips & Gratuities Guidelines
• Reimbursable Expenses
• Responsibilities

Fitchburg State University Travel

Fitchburg State wishes to reimburse you in a timely manner for your approved, funded, university-related travel expenditures. It is the intention of Financial Services that this Travel Guideline Document will serve to assist you in finding the information you will need in order to obtain your reimbursement quickly and smoothly when you travel on behalf of the University.

Policy Statement

Fitchburg State reimburses people who travel on official and approved university business for actual and reasonable business travel expenses.

Reason For Policy

This policy is intended to provide for the reasonable needs of travelers, to control travel expenditures, to facilitate proper reporting, and to ensure compliance with applicable Fitchburg State, Board of Higher Education, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts requirements.

Academic Performance Solutions (APS) is a web-based tool that brings together student, course, HR and financial data sets, as well as provides peer benchmarking against other institutions in the growing collaborative. APS is designed to give academic leaders access to critical data to inform resource allocation decisions.

Through use of APS we will be able to achieve many important goals such as:

• Optimizing course offerings to reduce underutilized resources
• Prioritizing investments in areas that will have the greatest impact on student progress, such as reducing bottlenecks
• Illuminating departments that are operating above or below benchmark levels

Explore the platform over the semester to gain more insight into your departments.

Click here to view the APS guides and tutorial videos.