Transcript edited by Ashten Vassar-Cain with support from the DAC team. BRENDA BRUEGGEMANN: Alright. Thank you so much for joining us today. HOLLY FITCH: Oh, pleasure! BRENDA BRUEGGEMANN: And so what we’re doing here, I’ll tell you a little bit, I’m Brenda Brueggemann. I’ve not ever met you before, but I’m loving some of theContinue reading “3/27/23 Interview with UConn Professor Holly Fitch on Accessibility Fellow”
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How Do We Teach, and Learn, Universal Design?
Written by Alyssa Carbutti with support from the DAC team. ***This post is in reflection of ideas discussed during an interview with UConn Professor Erin Scanlon regarding her Accessibility Fellow. The link to the interview transcript can be found here I love the idea of having a learning community for UConn professors to become educatedContinue reading “How Do We Teach, and Learn, Universal Design?”
Representing Diabetes with Art: Sculpting Ms Excess
Art sculpted by and piece written by Elisa Shaholli with support from the DAC team. Shown above is a clay, hand sculpted art piece titled ‘Ms Excess,’ meant to represent diabetes through the social model and embracing of a “diabetic aesthetic” where diabetes and beauty can be related, rather than on opposite ends of aContinue reading “Representing Diabetes with Art: Sculpting Ms Excess”
Disability Studies According to Wikipedia
Written by Kelly Coons with support from the DAC team. Note: This article was written on June 3 and June 4, 2021. Both Wikipedia articles and Google searches change over time, so what you find may vary. Everyone loves Wikipedia. (Except maybe teachers who see Wikipedia cited on papers, rather than students using the actualContinue reading “Disability Studies According to Wikipedia”
How Culture Shapes and Protects Against Stigma: An Informational on NYU Professor Lawrence Yang’s InCHIP Lecture
Written by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC team. In his classic sociological text on stigma, Erving Goffman wrote “The Greeks . . . originated the term stigma to refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier. The signs were cut or burnt intoContinue reading “How Culture Shapes and Protects Against Stigma: An Informational on NYU Professor Lawrence Yang’s InCHIP Lecture”
A Recap of the 2/6/23 Interview with UConn Professor Kimberly Bergendahl
Written by Madison Bigelow with support from the DAC team. ***The link to the interview transcript can be found here Within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) at the University of Connecticut, a new program that funds faculty or staff fellowships aimed at expanding accessibility across campus has been underway. As an initiative,Continue reading “A Recap of the 2/6/23 Interview with UConn Professor Kimberly Bergendahl”
2/6/23 Interview with Uconn Professor Kimberly Bergendahl on Accessibility Fellow
Transcript edited by Hannah Dang with support from the DAC team. Brenda Brueggemann: Great. So I will start us off. I’ll do the first question. And then you guys just pick up with other ones from there. Brenda Brueggemann: But I’m gonna ask you, Kimberly, if you would introduce yourself and tell us a littleContinue reading “2/6/23 Interview with Uconn Professor Kimberly Bergendahl on Accessibility Fellow”
2/17/23 Interview with UConn Professor Erin Scanlon on Accessibility Fellow
Transcript edited by Alyssa Carbutti with support from the DAC team. Brenda Brueggemann: All right, so we have captions running, and we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us here, and maybe we will introduce ourselves first. And we will tell you just a tiny bit about the blog and what we’re doing,Continue reading “2/17/23 Interview with UConn Professor Erin Scanlon on Accessibility Fellow”
A Recap of the 2/17/23 Interview with UConn Professor Erin Scanlon
Written by Ashten Vassar-Cain with support from the DAC team. ***The link to the interview can be found here The Disability & Access Collective blog team recently had the opportunity to speak with Erin Scanlon, one of the first Accessibility Fellows through UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This fellowship is focused on facultyContinue reading “A Recap of the 2/17/23 Interview with UConn Professor Erin Scanlon”
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