Campus Events and Visitors
In an effort to streamline the College's standing committee structure, the duties of the Campus Events and Visitors Committee have been redistributed to other administrative offices. The Service and Scholarship Committee will screen nominations and recommend to the Visitors and Governors all candidates for honorary degree, award for excellence, or senior fellow.
The Office of the Provost and Dean will allocate Lecture Series and similar funds for special events on campus.
Refer to the Campus Events Proposal form in this section of the Web site.
Campus Events and Visitors Guidelines*
- This fund supports staff, faculty and student events, as long as the proposed experience is deemed broadly educational.
- Ordinarily, the fund does not sponsor events that occur every year, as these ought to be supported by other budgets.
- Similarly, the fund does not sponsor repeat events, unless either the content of the lecture/event has been significantly modified or sufficient time has passed to justify a comeback.
- The fund sponsors events that take place on campus grounds; this can include locations like the boathouse, pavilion, the customs house and sporting fields. Events sponsored by the College but taking place in other venues, may be considered under extraordinary circumstances.
- Grants in excess of $1,000 should be considered rare and extraordinary.
- Given limited funds, the Dean's Office Is unable to fund public meals. We place first priority upon funding for honoraria, travel expenses and accommodations for speakers. (To cover the expenses of receptions associated with an event, we urge applicants to resort to other funding sources.)
- Campus Events and Visitors funds will not be used to directly support Washington College full-time, salaried faculty or staff members.
Special Fund
In addition to the regular operating budget of the Campus Events and Visitors Committee, one special fund is available which may allow for allocations of a larger sum of money for any single event. Below is a description of the special fund.
The Robert Julian Emory Memorial Lecture Fund
The gift requires the "income to be used each year to bring a distinguished speaker or outstanding contemporary personality to appear before students and invited citizens of the area."
Fill out the Campus Events Proposal for Funds.The record of grants from this fund from the previous year may be useful to those considering applying this year.
Expenditures 05-06
"Is Freedom and Exception to Malebranche's Occasionalism?"
Sean Greenberg (Weigel) $330
"Current Findings on Embryonic Stem Cell Research"
John McDonald (Kerchner) $1,635
"Perspectives on Economic Affairs and Disasters from an International Correspondent"
Adam Davidson (Volansky) $500
Discussion Series on Black Culture: "A Color Blind Society: Myth or Reality"
Gerald Wing Sue (Knight) $1,000
"Chaos and Continuous Creation in Renaissance Art and Literature"
Michel Jeanneret (Maynard) $800
"Woman's Edge and International economic Policies and Human Rights"
Ritu Sharma (Daniels) $360
"An Exult of Pleasure: The English Passion for North American Plants"
Mollie Ridout (Ford) $100
"Chess exhibition, women in leadership, and International Chess"
Beatriz Marinello (Harvey) $800
"German-Jewish immigration from Nazi Germany"
"The Philosophy of Karl Marx"
"A History of Spanish Art"
Drs C. Henning & A. Barboza (Ponzer) $650
"Art Therapy: How Art Heals"
Shaun McNiff (Barry) $1,000
"Making Sense of Immigration Reform: Politics, Law, and the Eastern Shore"
Ms. Sivaprasad, Timothy Dunn, Neda Biggs (Shivers) $500