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Is your accommodation policy sending the right message to disabled students?

It is common knowledge in the disabled community that “accommodations” for disability in higher eduction are often unreasonable, putting immense burden on disabled students to navigate a class environment that does not meet their access needs. When professors fail to provide reasonable accommodations, they are rarely forced to change course–honestly, you’re lucky if your disability student center mentions the access issue to the professor at all. As a disabled student, it always felt highly personal when this happened. Now that I have several years of experience as an instructor, sitting through trainings and teaching discussions with other instructors, I am still furious when students are denied reasonable accommodation, but I have a slightly different understanding of the denial as a personal slight.

This is not to give instructors denying accommodations a pass, but it is to point out that the bigger issue is that ableism is structured into the institutional framework of higher education (all education really, but that’s for another day). Instructors are socialized into a highly ableist system beginning in their undergraduate years, long before many even realize they will pursue a career in higher education. This system effectively limits the number of disabled instructors by centering norms in higher education around, not just the abled students and faculty, but the most superior of these groups–the “mentally fit” (aka “intelligent”). Bonus points if also very physically fit and attractive. This also creates a situation where the success stories become inspiration porn, often because they take on the “supercrip” mentality, but also because the system is literally structured so that disabled people must overcome their disabilities to some extent to survive.

One of the key items used to reproduce this ableist power imbalance? The syllabus. Yes, the accommodation policy, but also the rest of the policies, the course structure, and even the formatting of the syllabus itself down to the font choice and color selection for paper if provided printed copies.

My goal as an instructor has always been to make my courses as flexible as possible, centering the understanding that most students will need some form of adjustment, if not accommodation for disability, instead of assuming that most students will be non-disabled and socialized into an elite learning style (I tought at an R1 flagship university in the United States for 14 semesters ending December 2022). In the beginning I was mocked, laughed at, and bullied by my peers (exception of 3, also graduate students at the time, 2/3 in my own cohort…). The faculty member in charge of our graduate teaching seminar required to become an instructor told me my syllabus “just makes you sound like a nice person, which is great but your students want a smart person, who cares about nice??” Needless to say I’ve gotten in many arguments over the years, but interestingly enough, I’ve had many colleagues start to ask my advice in the COVID-era. Some people have started to realize that the traditional course setting isn’t just something that “doesn’t work” for all students, that it is something set up to purposively exclude certain students while favoring others. If you are one of those people, this post is for you!

There are 2 major barriers to students getting what they need accommodation-wise that have almost nothing to do with the instructor: medicalization of disability, and ignorance of other important circumstances that may warrant accommodation, like having a child, having full-time employment, or caring full-time for a parent. My most recent version of the accommodation section of my syllabus has not changed much in light of COVID-19, but there is one important distinction. While I did not wait until the pandemic to realize students needed (and wanted) to have access to course recordings and virtual attendance, it did take a student’s request for me to consider this as an appropriate course of action, and I will admit, my gut reaction was hesitation. I ignored it, and I can say it’s one of the best decisions I have made in my teaching career. It was also a huge step for my own battle against internalized ableism and supercrip mentality. Here’s the wording to my 2-section accommodation policy encompassing medically documented disability, disability without medical documentation, and non-disability reasons for needing accommodation.

The most important part of the non-disability section? Not putting parameters around who is allowed to ask for accommodations or a certain accommodation, and instead, taking a “no questions asked” approach.

I once had a colleague ask me how I managed to not be worried that students would take advantage of my accommodation policy. My response to that colleague? Some of them probably will take advantage of my policy, and you know what? It is still 100% worth it, every single time. It would be worth it if 44/45 students took advantage, because chances are, the 45th really needed that flexibility. It’s also not for me to judge whether they are taking advantage–if they say they need something, who am I to tell them what they do or do not need?

As a critical sociologist and disabled person, I can also answer my own question–nobody, not me, not you, not any doctor, no disability student center staff member, NOBODY, has a better understanding of their needs than the student expressing the need.

So, here’s the text, pulled from my Research Methods in Sociology syllabus from Fall 2022. I am posting this one on purpose. Not because it is the most recent, but because it is for a major required core class. Methods and theory always seem to come up in the “but what if’s” of the accommodation discussion. It’s possible, the course is over so I can say it went smoothly, and I’ve used it once before with theory, too. Here is your evidence! At min, take the text and share widely. If you’re skeptical? Take the syllabus, too.

And remember, there is nothing weak or pathetic about being kind. All of your colleagues are smart, but the students will remember who was kind to them, and who was horrible. Don’t be the horrible one. Your students have everything to gain, what do you really have to lose?

Find the text of my accommodation policy and an example syllabus at the link below:

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First email for the class Apps & Social Media-Hyflex at OLLI Summer 2023

Dear All, How wonderful to start our Summer Session at OLLI, welcome to fun, learning, and interesting fun. One of the first things we do in the first class is to getting to know each other.  Also, beside the salutations, we have the opportunity of customize the class for your special interests. We have today 8.93 million smartphone apps worldwide.  The average apps per user is 40 just in…

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Learning Lab | Designing Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) Courses to Support Multimodal Learning Environments – November 2024 | EDUCAUSE Events

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Mentor Message 10.31.23

1. New Campus Wi-Fi Update: Rolling out first in AH/BT/LRC. All other areas are still on the old campus Wi-Fi systems. General Information Depending on your device, you may need to forget the old network or choose some settings. Android devices have some additional quirks. Many thanks to our District and Campus IT Support in getting us faster, better & more secure campus Wi-Fi!

If you experience difficulties, please submit a help request at the Campus Support Center. You can also call during normal business hours: 619-388-7000

New Network Names:

SDCCD  Campus Connect: Students log in using their 10-digit ID/myportal password; Faculty/Staff use their sdccd email credentials.

SDCCD Campus Connect Guest: Takes user to an agreement checkbox (requires re-logging in after 4 hours)

SDCCD IHOT (not for us, but you might see in the list)

Instructional Labs: If you supervise labs that have student devices that use school Wi-Fi in AH, BT, or R and need assistance making sure those devices can connect to the new school Wi-Fi,  please update your Instructional Lab Request Form. Remember to cc to your chair/dean. NOTE: The devices might be able to find the new Wi-Fi without any special intervention, so consider testing them out first before requesting support.

2. Papercut is Coming! (Projected for November 3): This new pay-to-print system will be available in the LRC and other areas on campus. If you still have money on the old system, you can work out the transition at the Accounting Office. *Note: This is still subject to change. Please look for updates on the  ��the LRC information page. Many thanks to Librarian Sandra Pesce for keeping updates in one location!

*Once the new system is up and running, free printing services will end in the LRC. Consider exercising flexibility with your students and class requirements throughout the transition.

3. Google Jamboard Ending October 1, 2024 (no new nor editing): 10/1-12/31/2024 Jamboards will be come “view only.” You’ll need to back up or transfer your Jamboard activities to other third-party whiteboard tools FigJam, Lucidspark, and Miro as alternatives for whiteboarding in Google Workspace. Additional details on  Google Workspace Updates Blog and Help Center in the coming weeks Learn more

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First email for the Class of Shoot & Edit Videos-Hyflex at OLLI Summer 2023

Hello Everybody, Our class last Thursday was up most interesting. Our Summer session will be full of fun and interesting learning and practice. Our class will learn about:    How to edit videos in the devices you are familiar with, like;            Gopro7 Hero7 action Camera            Panasonic and Olympus Cameras            Samsung phonesHow are we all going to edit in all these devices?…

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You know when I said I wanted to go back to campus in the fall I was hoping we would actually have some sort of grip on handling the pandemic but now I’m just terrified 

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HyFlex Learning Community – Building the Hybrid-Flexible Future Together