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Darlys VanderBeek (Welcome, Darlys!), Gerald P. Hoff (Welcome, Gerald!), Jay Sennett, Douglas K. White (Vice-Chair, Presiding; Becky Rohre; Ryan Stork; Martha Reck; Ryan Stork (Welcome, Ryan!),Samir Karim; Mark Davis-Craig; Liz O'Dell (Welcome, Liz!), Sam Goodin, Mike Elledge (Goodbye, Mike!), Neika C. White, Miesha White (Welcome, Niesha!), Wallace Genser, Carole Dubritsky, Anna Ercoli Schnitzer (Minutes).
Doug
White called the meeting
to order in lieu of
our Chair, Jack Bernard,
who could not make the
meeting because he had
to be in California.
Introductions were made
around the table.
Jay
Sennett presented a
short workshop on the
blog,
which he called "convening
in cyberspace." Our
blog will
keep a historical record
of our ideas and activities,
and we will be able
to comment on specific
topics that eventually
will be our main blog
categories. Anyone
can comment, but in
order to post (start
an original thread),
we should send e-mail
to Jay (sennett@umich.edu)
and he will issue an
invitation/directions. Jay
said that he is happy
to hold additional workshops.
The blog will
be successful only if
we use it to exchange
ideas (e-mail often
loses the thread of
what is being discussed,
whereas in a blog one
can keep subjects in
categorie and
add comments). It
will be particularly
helpful for IAW organizing.
Doug
suggested that there be
a subcommittee for categories
in the blog. Jay,
Anna, Doug, and Darlys
will be members. Accessibility
of the blog was
discussed. Mike
will check on how it works
with Jaws, etc. Later,
we can move our blog to
MBlog when
the latter is more functional.
Doug thanked Jay for instructing us.
INVESTING
IN ABILITY WEEK WILL
BE THE WEEK OF OCTOBER
23-27!
Depression/IAW Committee
(Becky, Carole, Mark, Elizabeth
will meet tomorrow and
are "on a roll," (Becky
said).
Darlys mentioned
that all aspects of mental
health should be included,
not just depression, which
will be the case. Since
Mental Health Week is
the first week in October,
perhaps that is the week
for the IAW Depression
events.
Doug mentioned that "Murderball" is
on the list of best documentary
movies.
Doug suggested that IAW
could use "My Body
Politic," a memoir
by Simi Linton, published
by UM Press as reading
for IAW, as discussed
with Wally, for HSSP summer
reading and a 600-800
LSA student pilot program
to piggyback onto it.
The Speakers Committee
was formed consisting
of Martha, Sam,
Doug and Anna.
Carole presented an idea for all-campus, all-student, or all-community involvement with respect to a poster competition with an $500 honorarium to the winner. Dates were discussed with possible submission in September. A Poster Committee was formed consisting of Liz, Doug, Gerald, and Carole.
Jay discussed having an IAW project concerning getting things done at UM, since some faculty are involved with students and others with research, and sometimes people get lost in the "organized anarchy." Departmental managers are crucial in accessibility matters as well as in many other areas. Discussion ensued, and it was decided that we could have an educational panel which would include Jay (perhaps Carole could moderate?) to discuss strategies on how to get things done, successful negotiating with the right person in this large, bureaucratic institution--sort of a presentation of tools to use in sometimes adverse local climates.
Ryan presented Unite for Sight, a project of Vision USA that he and his group hope to focus locally and on campus. He explained about screening the homeless and possibly putting them in touch with the Optometric Institute of Detroit. The group would also like to present at elementary schools and promote healthy vision there.
Sam presented
the new SSD orientation
letter mentioning special
needs and also the policy
for accommodations.
Anna mentioned having
nominated Sarah Watkins
for the MLK Undergraduate
Award; however, this is
not a good year since
Sarah is not at UM but
working with Adapt in Chicago right
now.
Carole stated that she
had met with Dance Marathon
and they had exchanged
ideas about cues for when
the dance changes (colored
lights) and obtaining
an interpreter; the rest
room issues were straightened
out, too.
Carole will spend 3 days
at Univ Wisc/Madison
viewing new dorm under
construction and meeting
with ADA Coordinator,
Hospital Services, and
Web Site Accessibility
people.
Mike
told the Council about
February 17th being
his last day at UM and
that he enjoyed working
with the Council, seeing
its progress and knowing
that there will be further
accomplishments as we
go along. He has
found four people who
will partner on accessible
sites. He has
asked someone to take
over the CfDC web
site but has not yet
received a response.
So far no takers on
the course materials
workshop, so that position
is still open.
Doug and the Council Members
thanked Mike for all his
good work over the years!
Anna
said that "Paws
with a Cause" will
be returning for next
year's IAW.
The meeting was adjourned
a few minutes after 1
p.m.
Note:
Order of discussion
has been changed to
group related items.