Dear Colleagues,
OCUFA’s Status of Women and Equity Committee is holding a webinar titled Academic Ableism: Policy, Process, Pandemic with Dr. Jay Dolmage on May 7, 2021 at 10am. The webinar is open to all OCUFA members. Please register here to attend and share with your colleagues. You will receive the webinar link closer to the event date.
Workshop title: Academic Ableism: Policy, Process, Pandemic
Overview: To understand how universities work, we need to better understand ableism. For faculty, this can begin with an inquiry into how disabled students experience ableism, and what processes are in place to accommodate disability. But this quickly overlaps and tangles with the policies and processes that provide – or fail to provide – rights, protections, and accommodations for disabled faculty. The Covid-19 pandemic has worked to shift several entrenched assumptions around access to education for students, as well as “workplace” accessibility for faculty. So, now is a good time to ask careful questions so that we can avoid reinscribing the ableist policies and processes of the past. Given uncertainty around our return to campus in 2021, the timing becomes even more urgent. This webinar is designed to allow you to ask and answer these questions, as we address this uncertainty.
If you have questions about the workshop or would like to submit a question for Dr. Dolmage to consider, please reach out to OCUFA staff Mina Rajabi Paak or Cheryl Athersych.
In Solidarity,
To: OCUFA Board Directors and Executive Committee
Dear Colleagues,
OCUFA’s Status of Women and Equity Committee is holding a webinar titled Academic Ableism: Policy, Process, Pandemic with Dr. Jay Dolmage on May 7, 2021 at 10am. The webinar is open to all OCUFA members. Please register here to attend and share with your colleagues. You will receive the webinar link closer to the event date.
Workshop title: Academic Ableism: Policy, Process, Pandemic
Overview: To understand how universities work, we need to better understand ableism. For faculty, this can begin with an inquiry into how disabled students experience ableism, and what processes are in place to accommodate disability. But this quickly overlaps and tangles with the policies and processes that provide – or fail to provide – rights, protections, and accommodations for disabled faculty. The Covid-19 pandemic has worked to shift several entrenched assumptions around access to education for students, as well as “workplace” accessibility for faculty. So, now is a good time to ask careful questions so that we can avoid reinscribing the ableist policies and processes of the past. Given uncertainty around our return to campus in 2021, the timing becomes even more urgent. This webinar is designed to allow you to ask and answer these questions, as we address this uncertainty.
If you have questions about the workshop or would like to submit a question for Dr. Dolmage to consider, please reach out to OCUFA staff Mina Rajabi Paak or Cheryl Athersych.
In Solidarity,
Jenny
Jenny J.H. Ahn
Executive Director
Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA)
Cell: (437) 855-4614
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Toronto, ON Canada M4Y 1M7