Williams College Employee Handbook

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Entertaining and Dining with Students

In order to encourage faculty members and students to see each other outside the classroom, faculty may take meals in the College's dining halls without charge. Faculty who would like to eat with students should feel free to take the initiative in going to the dining halls; they need not wait for an invitation from students. This program is exclusively for the purpose of encouraging contact with students. It may not be used to provide free meals for department meetings or for other groups of faculty.

In addition, the Dean of the College's office provides each faculty member with a discretionary budget to be used for entertaining students. Faculty with full-time teaching appointments are provided $125. Those with part-time or one-semester appointments are provided $60. These funds are for the full academic year and can be used for entertaining at home or in restaurants, or to secure the help of caterers or the Williams Dining Services Department. These funds cannot be used to purchase alcohol. Apply to the Dean of the College's office for reimbursement.

There are also other funds available to support student-faculty interactions. Each department has a small budget to provide funds for faculty members wishing to entertain students. The department chair controls the disbursement of these funds. Faculty members can also apply to the CUL for additional funds for events beyond the traditional classroom context. Finally, advisors to first-year students have special funds to entertain their advisees available from the Dean of the College's Office.

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