UTC Speakers & Special Events (S&SE) Final Report
2013-2014 Academic Year
Submitted by Elizabeth Gailey, Chair
Committee Members: Immaculate Kizza (ENGL); Elizabeth O’Brien (EDUC), Charlie Remy
(Library), Priscilla Seaman (Library), Charles Sligh (ENGL), Mac Smotherman (THSP), Bento
Lobo (BUS-Finance); Terry Denniston (Dean’s Office representative); Robert Fisher (SGA
president); Steven Palmer (SGA VP); Charles Buford and Terrence Banks (Grad. student reps.);
Mary Beth Shults (International Student Org. representative); and Andrew Barnett (student rep. from
UTC Habitat for Humanity.
As set forth in the UTC Faculty Handbook, “UTC’s Speakers & Special Events Committee is
allocated funds from the activities fee for the purpose of paying honoraria, travel expenses, and other
expenses for non-university related speakers or special events presented on campus for students and
other members of the University community. All faculty and students are invited to submit a
proposal for financial support for speakers, lectures, arts, and entertainment events sponsored by this
Committee.”
Funding for the S&SE Committee for the 2013-14 academic year was $30,000. Of this amount,
members awarded a total of $29,943 to applicants.
Fall 2013: The Committee reviewed 18 proposals submitted for the fall 2013 round. Of these, 16
were funded and two were denied. Only one proposal was fully funded. Fall semester 2013
applicants were awarded a total of $17,343 to help meet the $47,702 total costs of their speakers and
events.
Spring 2014: In January 2014, members met for a second time to review an additional 23 proposals.
Of these, 20 were funded at a total cost of $12,600, and three were denied. Only four Spring 2014
proposals were fully funded. The $12,600 awarded to applicants during the spring round helped
defray the $59,975.62 total costs of their speakers and events.
A wide variety of both UTC departments and outside sponsors also contributed funding for the
events funded by the S&SE Committee. Examples include the Office of Equity and Diversity
(OED), Art, THSP, the Meachum Fund, UHON, philosophy, religious studies, sociology, political
science, English, business, economics, education, psychology, women’s studies, music, the Office
of Students with Disabilities, SGA, Delta Upsilon fraternity, and many others.
Below is a list of 2013-14 applicants and their funded speakers/special events:
APPLICANT
1. Bellar, Stephanie L.
FUNDED SPEAKER/SPECIAL EVENT
Civil Rights at the Grassroots Level Being Engaged
2. Plaisted, Dennis
32nd Annual C.S. Lewis Lecture
3. McNair, Jonathan
Marian Anderson String Quartet with SE Composers Forum
4. Tsai, Sin-Hsing
Rachmanioff for Two - Duo Piano Recital
5. Davies, Joshua
Poetry Evening
6. Dawson, Gail
Religious Diversity in the Workplace
7. Ford, D. & Carlson,
B.
What Am I Doing Here? A Hiring Trends Perspective….
8. Kluesner, Bryon
Diversity According to South Park and Family Guy
9. Kuby, William
Between Race and Nation: Shirley Chisholm and Natl. Pol.
10. Hampton, Bryan
James Kennedy Lecture in Shakespeare
11. Luthra, Lakshmi
Visiting Artist Lecture, Exhibition, Studio Visits & Demo
12. Maynard, Gary
Surviving Johnstown and the People's Temple
13. Meadows, Carrie
Meacham Writers' Workshop
14. Noe, Marcia
Kjerstin Gruys: "Beauty: Bodies from the Personal…."
15. Puryear, Solomon
Gentlewoman: Etiquette for a Lady from a Gentleman
16. Ribeiro, Brian
"If God is Dead, Then What are Philosophers of Religion…."
17. Shelton, Jill
Sleep, Memory, and Aging
18. Swanson, John C.
Holocaust Lecture (Tamas Stark)
19. Tejero, Nikolasa
River City Clarinet Winter Festival 2014-Residency
20. Vogel, Christina
UTC Visiting Artist Yinghua Zhu
21. Welsh, Talia
The Death Penalty and Philosophy
22. Nice, Cassandra
Take Back the Night Chattanooga
23. Asllani, Arben
Sang M. Lee (College of Bus. & UTC)
24. Jackson, Richard
Meacham Writers Workshops
25. O'Leary, Brian J.
Do Mean and Women Speak in Two Different Tongues?....
26. Elwell, Jeff
"Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?"
27. Tejero, Nikolasa
Façade: An Entertainment, with world premiere….
28. Thompson, Roger
The Tarnished Badge
29. Ribeiro, Brian
"Apatheism: Uncharted Territory in Philosophy of Religion"
30. Holmes, Ann E.
History and Recent Activity on the East TN Seismic Zone
31. Hutchinson, E.
Bruce
Globalization Seminar
32. Weathington, Bart
River Cities I-O Psychology Conference - Student Day
33. Miecielica, Adam
Starting Your Career as a Theatrical Designer
34. Schafer, Erika
2014 Trumpet Festival of the Southeast
35. Ingram, Debbie
Professional Integrity: Eliminating Healthcare Fraud….
36. Hacker-Cerulean,
Jean
The Beehive Design Collective