Subject: Quality Time with Students
From: "Dean William M. Treanor" <[email-masked]>
To: Law Faculty and Visitors <[email-masked]>
Cc: Sally McCarthy <[email-masked]>, "Thomas G. Clark" <[email-masked]>, Mitchell Bailin <[email-masked]>, Alexander Soto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:42:29 +0000

Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to remind you of two programs designed to encourage you to spend additional quality time with our students outside the classroom, or at least in a more festive manner inside the classroom.

1.      “Take Your First-Year Students to Lunch” Program

This is an initiative that was launched two years ago and that I have re-upped for this year.  This is an invitation to all first-year faculty (not just small section profs) to take their first year students to lunch.  The maximum reimbursement for the faculty member and the student is $15 per person.

The purpose of this program is to facilitate faculty lunches with small groups of first-year students.  Please note that this does not replace—it supplements—the program for faculty first-year, small section parties.

To be reimbursed, faculty should save both the credit card receipt and the original restaurant receipt (i.e., the one that actually includes the food order), write the name of the program (“Take Your Students to Lunch”), and the names of all attendees on the back of the receipt, and give the receipts to one’s faculty assistant for processing.

2.      End-of-Semester Parties

This program has existed for some time.  The school will pay up to $250 toward an end-of-semester party for each class.  (We recognize that this means that large classes are disadvantaged but we need to draw the line; so it is clear, no expenses over $250 will be reimbursed, though you may be able to take such amounts as a deduction on your taxes.)  Typically these involve the delivery of pizza or cookies and soda/water in the last, or close to last, class.  The $250 cannot be used to pay for alcohol. To be reimbursed, faculty should save both the credit card receipt and the original receipt showing the substance of the order (i.e., the one that shows the pizza or soda ordered), write the name of the program (“End of Semester Party”) and the names of the course and faculty member(s) on the back of the receipt, and give the receipts to one’s faculty assistant for processing.

Best,

Bill