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1. Highlighting certain events already fully funded but rich with potential for discussion beyond the sponsoring body and its usual constituency. For example, in the past, we have:
1. helped to bring Pulitzer Prize Winner Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, to campus for a lunchtime seminar and an evening reading;
2. paid transportation costs to “Nickel and Dimed” at the Mark Taper Forum for a class in which Ehrenreich’s book was a required reading;
3. organized, publicized, and provided honoraria for a Blue Room faculty panel on issues related to the performance of the musical “Hair,” and
4. provided funding for a lecture/seminar series titled "Truth, Justice, and the American Way."

2. Highlighting and providing funding for certain events that come with a built-in constituency and strong departmental and/or program ownership and are likely to be of interest to a broad segment of students, faculty, and staff. For example, we have:
1. helped fund a lecture by Kenji Yoshino, author of Covering;
2. helped fund The Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers of Los Angeles who performed in Carolyn Lyon Garden to an audience of over 330 people; and
3. helped fund the Pomona Student Union debate between Erwin Chermerinsky and Kenn Starr.
    

3. Working with student representatives of the Associated Students of Pomona College (ASPC) in order to combine faculty and student funding sources for public events when such events serve the mission of the Committee as stated above.
    
4. Seeking proposals for the Spring of 2010 and the academic year 2010-11.  Securing certain speakers and performers require scheduling at least a year in advance.  So, too, does some of the related curricular and extra-curricular activity of the sort described above.  Use our on-line proposal form to request highlighting and/or funding.  The Committee will select events based upon their wide appeal and their potential for sparking broad discussion on important questions.  The deadline for this round of proposals for the Spring 2010 is Friday, October 16. 2009.
   
    

If you need funding assistance for an event that you know to be of interest primarily to your own colleagues and constituency, please apply to Associate Dean Katherine Hagedorn. Her office has a modest public events fund for such use.

Please get in touch with any member of the Public Events Committee, listed below, if you have questions, reactions, or ideas of your own for accomplishing what we have outlined above. Obviously, the mission we have set for Public Events cannot be accomplished without your support and participation.

Proposal Form