PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- University of Rhode Island President David Dooley is a frequent and world-wide traveler, whose 118-plus days on the road last year took him to destinations as near and far as Bozeman, Mont., and Beijing, China.
His travels cost the university and its fundraising arm a total of $54,577 last year, with URI paying $32,584 of those expenses, including trips back to his students, research staff and laboratory at Montana State University.
The overall cost of his travels, since his arrival at URI in 2009: $149,751.
Dooley's trips include building opportunities for exchange programs with colleges abroad and fundraising for URI.
Dooley also made several trips back to Montana, where he and his wife still have a home. His hiring agreement with URI allowed him to return to Montana State University several times a year, for three years, to wind down his global warming and ozone depletion research there.
A new and expanded agreement, signed March 22, allows more trips back to Montana State and allows him to use approximately $50,000 a year in grant money intended to support research at URI to finish his work there.
The agreement was signed by the state's commissioner of higher education, Raymond DiPasquale, and the chairwoman of the state's new Board of Education, Eva Marie Mancuso.
Dooley says his frequent trips abroad and continuing relationship with Montana State reflect views that, he believes, were among the reasons he was chosen to lead URI.
President Dooley Travel Records.pdf
June 2009 Letter of Agreement.pdf
Montana State University Memorandum of Understanding.pdf
March 17, 2013 Letter Continuing Affiliation with Montana State University.pdf