Meeting Date
- Access Info
- Brought up the accessibility of Covid testing as a question area--how can we increase the accessibility of these spaces and the process
- Introductions
- Welcome new members
- Discussion: 2021 Goals & Planning
- Sustain the heightened awareness and consciousness of ableism, access needs, and disability; leverage this to affect policies and practices that impact pwd
- Media partnership
- How to keep us on the front page; out front; in front of folks
- Supporting staff and faculty who need accommodations
- Making new hires aware of supports and pathways to accommodations, sharing stories from current faculty/staff
- We also need to make accommodations apparent and function for those who work here
- We still have problems with consistent accommodations
- Needing pathways to accommodations
- This list item also applies to graduate student employees
- Feedback: Consider mentorship for postdocs (and others) with disabilities
- Feedback: We need to have a way to ensure that new hires will not be singled out for needing accommodations
- ADA coordinator is a resource
- Dean of students staff can help with grad students needing accommodations
- This gap is more difficult to navigate for faculty/staff than students
- We also need to make accommodations apparent and function for those who work here
- LSA Access Navigators positions
- Making new hires aware of supports and pathways to accommodations, sharing stories from current faculty/staff
- Media partnership
- Institutionalize accessible practices in everyday work; address long standing issues
- Influence decision making around access, expectations, and accommodations as we approach an eventual future where it is safer for in-person contact
- How to do this? Where are these contacts being made?
- Meet with leadership from areas with longstanding issues
- Human Resources
- Logistics, Transportation, Parking
- Leverage newly forming advisory group - connects people with advocacy groups on campus
- Task Force to discuss flexible work futures at the U-M, not sure if at LSA or U-M level
- RDLA is an activism org that could be helpful
- Influence decision making around access, expectations, and accommodations as we approach an eventual future where it is safer for in-person contact
- Build coalition beyond disability and lift up intersectional work
- Plan outreach and meeting invitations for 2021
- Detroit Disability Power
- MiChart project at Michigan Medicine
- Progress reports for Student IDEA Board Recommendations, Rackham Graduate Students with Disabilities Report
- Community-building events
- Book club?
- Repost and rehire for CfDC student administrative assistant position to support these activities
- Plan outreach and meeting invitations for 2021
- Sustain the heightened awareness and consciousness of ableism, access needs, and disability; leverage this to affect policies and practices that impact pwd
- Invited Guests
- Michigan Daily writers focusing on disability issues
- Andrew Gerace ([email protected])
- Jr at U-M in LSA, Sr editor at Michigan Daily in the Opinions section
- Help facilitate Edit Board
- Can guide the direction of columns
- Wrote about experience of student being discriminated against in their Econ class; prof made no accommodations; in process of writing article had others come forward; econ dept as whole had policy for making no exceptions/accommodations - “tough luck” policy
- Econ department has changed their no exceptions policies
- Other departments in LSA also have a “no exceptions” policy
- Grayson Buning ([email protected])
- Jr at U-M, Writes for the Sport section at the Michigan Daily
- Works with the Adaptive Sports & Fitness program
- Generating content for the adaptive sports program
- Wrote article about adaptive tennis player and the program; has too little recognition by univ
- Next article wants to highlight importance of such programs
- ‘Disability is not inability’: Michigan’s Adaptive Sports and Fitness Program strives to assert itself
- On his Journey to the top, Chris Kelley paves the road for those behind him
- Maggie Wiebe ([email protected])
- Works on the Statement, the magazine, does long form pieces
- Illustrations for Andrew’s pieces about disabilities
- Wake up and smell the rhetoric
- Would like to partner with others, providing illustration
- Comments/Questions to guest speakers:
- How can we support your work?
- Submitting OpEds - they’ll help edit (Andrew)
- Edit boards - community discussions that result in editorial pieces (Andrew) - we can pose a topic
- Reach out to folks like Andrew about issues we feel should receive daily coverage, ie testing services (Andrew)
- Establish some sort of tip line, for community concerns, issues (Grayson)
- Could invite Daily editors/writers to forums (could use future Council meetings) in which people with disabilities share issues that should receive coverage
- Is very open to working with others and providing illustration support; can take ideas to her editors (Maggie)
- Style guides to use when writing; https://ncdj.org/style-guide/
- How can we support your work?
- Andrew Gerace ([email protected])
- Michigan Daily writers focusing on disability issues
- Advisory Group progress updates
- Adjourn