Schoff Subvention
University Seminars has money from a bequest that is to be used for assisting seminar members, associates, rapporteurs, and participants with publication of books and journal articles. Leonard Hastings Schoff's will left a fund to the University Seminars at Columbia to support the publication of materials that emerge from a University Seminar. Certain fields have been specified in the bequest for support: economics, sociology, psychology, penology and the behavioral sciences. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the University Seminars, these fields are open to flexible interpretation.
Warner Subvention
The Aaron Warner Fund was created to be used for
assisting seminar members, associates, rapporteurs, and participants
with publication of books and journal articles that emerge from materials from a University
Seminar.
These publications do not need to fall under
specific fields.
Guidelines The will sets the following restrictions on such support and these guidelines are used for both the Schoff and the Warner Funds:
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An individual presented a portion of a contracted manuscript (with any publisher) at a seminar meeting and needs money to defray preparation costs (such as word processing, indexing, preparation of tables or photographs, etc.).
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An individual has a manuscript, all or part of which was taken up at a seminar, and needs subsidy assistance to obtain a publisher. As part of this process, assistance may be given for the selection and payment of readers to assess the manuscript.
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An individual has presented a paper which could be expanded into a monograph, but needs money to defray preparation costs. Preference should be given to younger scholars.
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An individual has a manuscript, relating to the overall topic of a seminar, that has benefitted from the individual’s participation in that seminar.
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A seminar selects a group of seminar papers around a given theme and prepares them for publication as part of a "University Seminars" series. Some of these papers could have been published in another form elsewhere. Money would be available for publication costs.
Those with projects or proposals should first contact the seminar chair, and then arrange a meeting with the director.
Application Procedures
If you are eligible to apply to the Schoff or Warner Subvention Fund (see guidelines above) to defray publishing costs of work presented to a University Seminar then address a brief proposal (1-2 pages) to the Director, Professor Robert Belknap, listed on the contacts page. Request the funds which are needed and the University Seminars Advisory Committee will determine the amount of the award if the proposal is accepted. The proposal should include:
- Title of paper , which seminar it was presented to, and the date it was presented
- The form in which this work will be published and how you and/or the work benefited from participation in a University Seminar
- The publisher and date of publication
- Table of Contents of the publication
- Budget request (i.e. itemized list of costs you would like the subvention to cover)
- A letter of support from the seminar chair is suggested but not required
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