The Division of Inclusion & Equity, Office of the Provost, Human Resources, and the Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center have collaborated to create a Colloquium Series: Inclusion and Equity Efforts to Elevate Historically Underrepresented Faculty and Staff. The learning spaces will be constructed by contemporary scholars and practitioners who have tremendous insights on inclusion, equity, and social justice in higher education. The motivation for the series is to focus on employee climate as well as a response to ongoing conversations with our affinity groups and campus climate data. 

Please join us for the next colloquium!  Details below:

Beyond Compliance: Disability and Design Justice for Faculty and Staff

This session will begin with a dynamic review of the research to place disability in context within higher education and specifically through the lenses of faculty and staff.  We will hear from a faculty panel about how to best remove barriers and create access.  Participants will also have an opportunity to engage in case studies to better learn to apply policy and engage in lead practice.

Presenter:  L. Scott Lissner

L. Scott Lissner has served as the Americans With Disabilities Act Coordinator and 504 Compliance Officer for The Ohio State University since January of 2000. An Associate of the John Glenn School of Public Policy and lecturer for the Moritz College of Law, the Knowlton School of Architecture and Disability Studies his teaching and public service informs his work as the university’s disability compliance officer; energizing his role in creating seamless access to all of the university’s facilities, programs, services, and employment opportunities.

Wednesday, April 12

noon – 1:30 p.m. (lunch Included), Holton Hooker

Learning objectives:

• Understand disability as an aspect of individual identity and campus culture.
• Identify facilitators and barriers to access (for faculty and staff)
• Apply policies and develop practices that support seamless access