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Providing Meals & Refreshments

Meals or refreshments may be provided to employees, students, donors, or guests attending university events including career fairs, conferences, student recognition or outreach events, programmatic activities, employee recruitment functions, retreats, retirement receptions or other events with a documented business purpose which are intended to further the university’s mission.

The University will not pay for meals or refreshments for regularly scheduled staff meetings, planning meetings, employee birthdays, weddings, holidays, going away parties or other celebrations with the exception of the length of service or retirement receptions for employees with at least five years of university service.

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