coe-staff: Disability and Living/Working in the Academy, Feb. 13th

[Annette Tognazzini]

Disability and Living/Working in the Academy

 

We invite you to join us for a webinar and discussion on "Disability and
Living/Working in the Academy." We will screen portions of a very good
recent webinar featuring Dr. Stephanie Kerschbaum, an Assistant Professor of
English at the University of Delaware, currently working with Margaret Price
on a two-stage study on this topic. The webinar is presented by the National
Center on Faculty Development and Diversity. After the webinar, Professor
Betsy Wheeler will facilitate a discussion about the issues raised,
particularly as they relate to our campus community. Box lunches will be
served. There will be plenty of time to talk, eat, and enjoy each other's
company. Please join us! The event will be ASL interpreted. Service dogs
welcome. Please send food allergy requests and other accommodations to
jchain at uoregon.edu <mailto:jchain at uoregon.edu%3cmailto:jchain at uoregon.edu>
<mailto:jchain at uoregon.edu>.

 

Date: Friday, February 13

 

Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm

 

Location: Education 116

 

Please RSVP by Friday, February 6 by clicking on this link:
https://oregon.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3zbRPc10YNkrSpn

 

WEBINAR DESCRIPTION: DISABILITY AND LIVING/WORKING IN THE ACADEMY. Living
and working with a disability in academia is a common occurrence,
particularly given the ways that academia itself is an environment that can
exacerbate or bring out disabling conditions in many people. In this
workshop, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum will suggest ways that academic
environments can become more hospitable towards disability as well as how
academics can work interdependently to enact accessible moves and
procedures. Specific topics discussed will include legal obligations and
expectations around accommodation and why these are important but
insufficient for enacting broad accessibility, the ways that "universal
design" might apply to academic environments, and means for cultivating
communication around access.

 

STEPHANIE L. KERSCHBAUM is an Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Delaware. She is currently working with Margaret Price on a
two-stage study of disabled faculty involving a large-scale survey of
faculty members with mental health issues and in-depth interviews with
faculty members with a variety of disabilities. She has written and
collaborated on several essays on disability and the profession, including
"Faculty Members, Accommodation, and Access in Higher Education"
(http://profession.commons.mla.org/2013/12/09/faculty-members-accommodation-
and-access-in-higher-education/). A rhetorical and discourse analyst by
training, Stephanie is working to develop research methods that are
inclusive of disability and to improve academic environments for all
members.

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Jennifer Chain, M.S.

 

 

 

Graduate Teaching Fellow

 

Center on Diversity and Community

 

Counseling Psychology Doctoral Candidate University of Oregon
jchain at uoregon.edu <mailto:jchain at uoregon.edu%3cmailto:jchain at uoregon.edu>
<mailto:jchain at uoregon.edu>

 

 

Annette Tognazzini

Grants/Contracts Technician

Early Intervention Program

Center on Human Development

901 E. 18th St., Suite 139

139 Clinical Services Building (CSB)

Eugene, OR 97403-5253

annettet at uoregon.edu <mailto:annettet at uoregon.edu> 

(541) 346-2595



 

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