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UWC-ADA Compliance Committee Minutes
4/29/2009
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Conference Room (158)
Type of meeting: Regular
Facilitator: Chris Raber, Chair
Attendees: Chris Meade, Janet Snedegar
Agenda topics
Review minutes
Minutes from the last meeting were approved.
Year End Report: Review goals and draft report
Chris prepared a draft to review at the meeting, and distributed it to
all committee members before today’s meeting. Those present, as well as
three e-mail responses to the draft approved the summary. We discussed
the suggested changes to the ADA Statement from Marc Cardinalli, and
those present approved them, along with e-mail feedback from three other
members.
Training Ideas: Plans for Fall 2009
In the fall, we want to target Adjunct faculty to increase use of ADA
Compliance Committee Statement. We will accomplish this by presenting at
Adjunct training sessions, and posting flyers in the adjunct break rooms
and mailboxes. We will also continue to send e-mails to department
secretaries requesting them to remind faculty to use of the newly
revised ADA Statement on course syllabi. We decided that a departmental
approach would be best to share the findings from the 2009 Fall course
syllabi review, share benchmarks we have set for faculty use of the ADA
Statement on course syllabi, and encourage increased use by faculty in
order to meet the benchmarks. We will also participate in any
campus-wide training sessions should they occur in the next year.
Clearinghouse Issues/Discussion
We discussed challenges for meeting times, and ways to use technology
more to increase our interactions for committee work. We will explore
setting up a pbWiki for the committee, which would be very useful for
reviewing documents and discussing issues asynchronously.
Respectfully submitted, Chris Raber, Chair
UWC-ADA Compliance Committee Minutes
4/1/2009
Time: 8:00-9:00 AM
Location: Health Sciences Conference Room (158)
Type of meeting: Regular
Facilitator: Chris Raber, Chair
Attendees: Butch Kotcamp, Jim Weaver
Agenda topics
Update to Report: Fall 2008 Course syllabi review
Chris reported that the final review is being updated as more syllabi
were reviewed to ensure that courses from every department were sampled.
Chris will distribute the final review at the next meeting. From the raw
data, it was noted that of 409 syllabi reviewed (41% of courses offered
Fall 2008) , 86% had an ADA statement of some type. However, only 29% of
Adjunct syllabi used ADA Committee Statement, which was listed as
required in the Adjunct handbook. We discussed the benchmarks from March
11 meeting (100% for Adjunct Faculty and 90% for Full Service Faculty),
and agreed these seem to be reasonable targets. Ideas to increase
communication with Adjunct Faculty about use of ADA Committee’s
statement on syllabi included: committee member presenting at Adjunct
training sessions; increased communication with department secretaries,
posting flyers in Adjunct offices, and distributing flyers to adjunct
faculty. Chris will bring final summary to last meeting for committee
review, and will include the summary in the Year end letter.
Year End Report
Chris will prepare draft to bring to last meeting; major project has
been the course syllabi review, and approval of student survey, along
with addressing Clearinghouse items as they occur.
Training Ideas
As discussed above, we want to target Adjunct faculty to increase use of
ADA Compliance Committee Statement. We will contact Kris Liles to find
out details regarding Adjunct training sessions, and talk with Barb
Kunkle as well, to determine role of Teaching and Learning Center in
adjunct trainings. We agreed that end of the semester e-mails to
department secretaries is a good reminder to help increase use of ADA
Statement on course syllabi, and we discussed ways to distribute the
findings from the course review to share results and encourage increased
use in order to meet the benchmarks. Department meetings may be useful,
as well as having a session at future education day events. We will
distribute handouts to adjunct faculty as well, beginning summer 2009.
Clearinghouse Issues/Discussion
Butch shared ADA work order information from the fall to currently; most
work orders address function of ADA doors, with a few requests to move
adjustable desks into classrooms. Butch will check for any others and
supply Chris with them for the year end report. Jim reported on ways we
are addressing reasonable accommodations for students with hearing
impairments who do not sign or read lips; we discussed some of the
technology that may be helpful (Dragon Dictate and other dictation
software), and could be used for several types of needs for students
requesting academic accommodations. Finally, we discussed on-line survey
tools that we could use for the student survey; Sam Coppoletti
recommended Survey Gizmo, and Jim will talk with Darrell Ruddman about
this program, as he has used it as well. We want to have the survey
ready to distribute to students at the beginning of Fall 2009 semester.
Respectfully submitted, Chris Raber, Chair
UWC-ADA Compliance Committee Minutes
3/11/2009
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Conference Room (158)
Type of meeting: Regular
Facilitator: Chris Raber, Chair
Attendees: Chris Pitts, Gay Lynn Shipley, Butch Kotcamp, Bane
Sylvia
Agenda topics
Welcome:
Thanks to Denise Brockett for her service to the committee, and welcome
to Chris Pitts, who replaces Denise.
Report: Fall 2008 Course Syllabi Review
Discussion: Chris distributed results to date of the course syllabi
review conducted by the committee last semester. Syllabi from 35% of
courses offered Fall 2008 were reviewed, with nearly all departments
represented. Chris is working to review a sample from each department to
increase the representativeness of the sample. 86% of the syllabi
reviewed had an ADA Statement in some form. CPS courses used ADA
Committee statement in 74% of the syllabi reviewed, and CAS used ADA
Committee statement in 33% of the reviewed syllabi. While 89% of adjunct
faculty courses used ADA Statement, only 29% used the ADA Committee
statement, which was stated as required statement in the adjunct faculty
handbook. 83% of Full Service faculty used some type of ADA Statement,
with 55% using ADA Committee, 20% using Semester conversion statement,
4% used other, and 4% used both. We discussed creating benchmarks to
target use of ADA Statement at 100% for Adjunct Faculty, as it is
required in the Adjunct handbook, and 90% for Full service faculty.
Education efforts for adjunct faculty include working with Kris Liles
and Department chairs to increase communication about the requirement.
We will continue education for full service faculty as well, focusing on
benchmarks and reporting progress with current use of ADA Statement.
Chris will send Semester conversion language to Marc Cardinalli for his
review and input. Bane reported that ideas for education event in the
fall are still in the works; he will keep us posted.
Student Survey/Spring education projects
Discussion: We reviewed student survey, and members present
approved its use with no changes to language. Plan to implement in the
fall and will use on-line survey tool so it is easy to gather and
interpret results. Chris will work with Sam Coppoletti to determine best
tool. We will use the rest of the meetings this semester to plan for
education events in the fall. Chris passed out revised brochure, which
we will post on committee website for interested departments to print
and distribute. Bane noted changes to HR room; Chris will add the
changes before posting.
Clearinghouse Issues/Discussion
Discussion: Butch shared accessibility drawings for Founders’
Plaza project, and reported he will compile summary of ADA Work orders
for our year end report. Butch had also forwarded information about
possibility to gain used scooters for use on campus. We discussed
process issues that would need to be addressed if these were obtained.
Alternately, developing a handout listing community resources that would
rent/loan mobility devices (scooters, wheelchairs, etc) for public
events, such as graduation, would also accomplish increased access on
campus.
Respectfully submitted, Chris Raber, Chair
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