Partner with the TI

Propose an Interdisciplinary TI-Sponsored Collaboration:

Do you have an upcoming event for which you'd like to apply for co-sponsorship and partnering with the Templeton Institute? If so, we at the TI would be excited to learn more about your project and how we might assist you, your students, and your colleagues.

To apply, please email us (at templeton@union.edu) a two-page PDF document detailing and outlining the project in terms of its nature, aims, goals, and proposed outcomes. Here, it would be very helpful for us to know all of the faculty, students, and/or staff intending to work on this project as well as a short narrative of how the project came into being and what you hope to accomplish with it, including all proposed dates for all events. Please note that we will only be able to give full consideration to interdisciplinary projects that adhere to the TI's central mission of further integrating computer science and/or engineering with the liberal arts.

Your PDF submission should also provide a detailed budget for all aspects of the proposed event and all current funding sources as well as any financial requests you are submitting for TI-funding consideration. Please note that we require TI-sponsored partnership events to have some form of support from (1) the department/program/office of the proposing individual(s) and (2) proposed collaborations or connections with Division IV. Only in very rare instances will the TI fully fund a standalone project, given that a goal of our funding is to support already emerging cross-disciplinary partnerships across the college. We ask applicants please to review previous TI-sponsored partnership events detailed on our website.

Applicants must submit materials at least six weeks in advance of planned project dates.

Once received, the TI Co-Directors will evaluate and vet application materials and may need to submit applications to the Templeton Institute Steering Committee (TISC) for further discussion and consideration. We work diligently to return final decisions to applicants in a timely manner.

While you craft your application materials, please consider the additional TI-guidelines for event collaboration and co-sponsorship below.

TO: TI-Sponsored Events Collaborator(s)

It is the role of the project initiators and their home departments/programs/offices to handle logistics of such matters as hotel bookings, travel planning, and related bookings. The TI can help with aspects such as suggested dates for events, potential campus event locations, event publicity, and financial support.

Outside of the TI Signature Events (e.g., the Steinmetz Day special event and the Engineering and Liberal Education Symposium), the TI does not assist with event logistics at a detailed level due to TI bandwidth constraints.

Here are some items we normally help with:

(1) Financial assistance for interdisciplinary projects (e.g., pledged support to cover honorarium, hotel cost, flights, other minor costs, etc.).

(2) Mentioning the event on our website. Note that we expect the project initiators and their home departments/programs/offices to provide us with text and images.

(3) Email blasts to the campus community from the TI account, with content again to be provided by the home departments/programs/offices.

Here are some items we do not assist with:

(1) All travel arrangements for guest speakers, including hotel bookings, airline reservations, per diem, etc. These are the sole responsibility of the project initiators and their home departments/programs/offices. (So while we are happy to help fund such project aspects, we do not handle those bookings, etc.).

(2) Graphic design or printing of promotional materials. (We do expect, though, that the co-sponsorship of the Templeton Institute be mentioned on promotional materials for projects we help to fund).

(3) Room bookings on campus for talks, lunches, etc.

(4) Catering and ordering of any meals for any events.

(5) Covering any other logistics for invited guest lectures to include outside restaurant reservations, development of day schedules, etc.

(6) Covering any hardware, software, or other supplies for partnership proposals (for teaching, research, etc.). The TI does not fund partnership proposals for any physical or related supplies (including for TI Courses or Course Module Innovations).

Also, it is the equal responsibility of the project initiators to ensure that appropriate final dates and times are chosen without conflicts.