SPONSORSHIP

Parr Center Sponsored Application Process for Projects/Events/Research

The Parr Center is committed to serving the university community by sponsoring, or co-sponsoring research, discussion, and reasoning about ethical issues among undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.  This research and discussion should aim especially at developing the interaction between theoretical and academic subjects and practical issues.  It is our conviction that both theories and practices are both improved when they are related and integrated.  This support of research and discussion includes:

• Making resources available to faculty and students to provide time and opportunity to explore ethical issues in depth.
  
  
• Focusing on ways of making progress in our thinking about ethical issues
  
  
• Supporting the teaching of ethics by providing resources for course development, travel, research, and bringing visitors into the classroom.

The mission of the Parr Center for Ethics is to bring academic and theoretical work in ethics to bear on practical ethical issues, especially as these issues are understood and articulated by experts in other academic disciplines.  In this way, The Parr Center can aim not only to call attention to ethical issues, but also to make an important contribution to advancing discussion and reasoning about these issues.  The principal goal the center ultimately seeks to achieve through sponsorship is developing the integrity and ethical sophistication of our students.  The kinds of research or events the Center sponsors should increase awareness of the nature of ethical issues and help develop the critical reasoning skills needed to think more clearly about them.  The goal for Center sponsored research would provide a public forum for discussion and debate on important ethical issues affecting the university and the broader community, and further the Center's mission.

If you believe that your event, research, or project supports the Parr Center’s mission and would like sponsorship, then please submit the following:

1. A description of the project/event/research (less than 5 pages) with an explicit articulation of how the project/event/research relates to the Parr Center’s mission
   
   
2. A CV (less than 5 pages)
   
   
3. A detailed budget
   
   
4. A description of other funding sources that have either been secured or that are being (or will be) sought, if any

To receive funding for the following Spring Semester you must submit your purposal by October 15

To receive funding for the following Fall Semester you must submit your purposal by February 15

Please submit all of the above in order and attach a Funding Purposal Cover page.  Email documents by clicking HERE (please put sponsorship in subject) or alternatively mail documents to the address listed below:

The Parr Center for Ethics
ATTN: Jan Boxill
CB# 3125, Caldwell Hall
UNC/Chapel Hill, NC 27599

If you have any questions or concerns please contact:

Lance Westerlund
(919) 843-5641