Workshops

The program supports multi- and cross-disciplinary workshops (both events and series) that help UC faculty and graduate students develop new skills and methods through hand-on learning. 

Proposed workshops should not duplicate or closely mirror offerings already provided in units or existing Centers (e.g., CET&L, FEC, OoR). Workshops are not intended to augment current course offerings, but rather expand training opportunities and increase cross-disciplinary conversations. 

For each award, up to $180 will be made available to the organizing faculty member to support hosting the visiting workshop leader. 

Applications for Workshops are accepted on a rolling basis. 

Applications are limited to faculty who are tenured or tenure-track with primary appointments in either a Taft member unit or the College of Arts & Sciences with a terminal degree in a Taft member field. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, faculty in other colleges, and non-tenure track faculty (part-time, educator, research, visiting, and adjunct) are ineligible for this program. Applications submitted on another's behalf to evade eligibility requirements will be rejected immediately. 

To apply, please send a proposal of no more than 1,000 words to taft@uc.edu.

Proposals must include the following as a single PDF attachement: 

1. Overview of the workshop concept and activities, including a clear articulation of the local value and need (no more than 500 words); and
2. Brief bio/credential of the proposed workshop facilitator(s) (no more than 150 words); and
3. Plan for soliciting and selecting workshop participants, including outreach to graduate students and relevant units, especially those in other disciplines (no more than 150 words).

Applications reporting interest from other units are required to demonstrate such interest through a letter of support stating their intent to participate and help recruit others. 

Workshop applications must be prospective, submitted for the following month or later. Workshop awards may be combined with Taft Departmental Lectures, Taft Competitive Lectures, and Taft Conference monies. Applications must include an account of such combined uses and the status of departmental lecture monies.

• For each award, up to $180 will be made available to the organizing faculty member to support hosting the visiting workshop leader(s). Taft will not reimburse alcohol expenses. 
• Awardee is responsible for working with departmental administrators and understanding the visa status for foreign or non-U.S. citizen speaker, and how this impacts payment, the rules and regulations regarding speaker travel, payments, and events cost reimbursement.
  
• Units should publicize workshops in classes, and to faculty, students, and colleagues. 
• All award funds must be expended exclusively in furtherance of the award and all expenditures of award funds must comply with university policies relating to financial transactions, including the Code of Conduct and, as discussed in the Code of Conduct, the ethics laws of the state of Ohio which prohibit certain private financial interests in university matters. University Rule 3361:10-17-03 (D).
• Full disclosure of non-Taft funds received for the proposed project, both inside and outside the university, is required. A Taft award may not duplicate other funds granted for the same purpose, except when a deficit in the project budget is anticipated even with such non-Taft funds.
• Where significant deviations from the approved application occur, the awardee must notify the Taft Faculty Chair in writing and receive written approval for the changes. Failure to comply with this rule may result in the revocation of award.
• Awardees must recognize support provided by the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center.
• Publications and creative works generated by the sponsored workshop should acknowledge the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center.