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Student Professional Development Fund

The Student Professional Development Fund is a reimbursement program designed to support Mitch Daniels School of Business students in their professional development goals. Students can apply to this fund as individuals and as student organizations for the opportunity to receive financial reimbursements for expenses incurred during qualifying professional development activities.

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What Activities and Expenses Qualify?

Career Treks

  • All Career Treks should be facilitated through or in partnership with Business Career Services in order to be considered for approval.

Case Competitions

  • Students seeking case competition opportunities should first look at the competition opportunities supported by the Center for Business Communication. For competitions already supported by this center, funding is provided through them.

Conferences

  • Students seeking to attend conferences should select conferences with themes or topics that further their personal career aspirations.

Other

  • Have an activity that does not fall under the above categories? You can still apply and explain the activity and its relevancy to your professional development for consideration!

Qualifying expenses include transportation, registration, and lodging. Food expenses will not be reimbursed.

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Application Types

Individual Students

All Daniels School students can be granted this reimbursement twice in their undergraduate career. Upon approval, they can receive up to $500 reimbursements for qualifying, documented expenses.

Student Organizations

All official Daniels School student organizations can be granted this reimbursement once per year. They can choose between reimbursing their transportation costs up to 50% or up to $2,500 (whichever comes first) or reimbursing their member’s individual costs up to 50% or $2,500 total (whichever comes first).

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Involvement with a club that gets approved is not considered one of your two personal instances of receiving the reimbursement.

No, this is a reimbursement. Funds will only be given after expenses are incurred and proper documentation is provided.

Not entirely; approval is contingent upon the applications’ timeliness, review, and acceptance.

No; you can only be granted this gift twice, only up to $500 per instance.

No; we only reimburse students for expenses they personally incur, we do not partner with academic departments/programs.

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