Proactive Accessibility Liaisons (PALs) with the IAG

We are recruiting for Fall 2025! Please email us if interested!

Inspired by the Peer Associates and Scholarship for Teaching and Learning (SoTL) programs, the Instructional Accessibility Group (IAG) within the CTLD facilitates a small cohort of faculty to work on individual accessibility projects over one semester to be shared with the cohort, their departments, and beyond. Read through the Areas of Responsibility section below for details.

The IAG anticipates this work to be collaborative in which cohort members and the IAG all learn and share resources with each other. As the IAG cannot feasibly be subject matter experts (SMEs) for every discipline, the cohort will assist the IAG in meeting faculty needs with department-specific accessibility resources and allows faculty to receive individualized guidance on proactive accessibility for their content area.

Interested faculty should email us for information, and also to start the chair approval process. The chair approval step ensures that all parties understand that PALs participation is not meant to make faculty act as accessibility specialists, but to provide another line of communication between the IAG and your department.

Faculty commit to several meetings during one semester in addition to individual work time. The time commitment would be roughly equivalent to 1 credit hour for one semester. Upon completion with a deliverable, PALs will receive a stipend of $800.

Meetings will include options for both in-person and remote attendance. We encourage in-person attendance as much as possible.

Spring 2025:

PALs will resume in Fall, please email us if you are interested!

• Learn–Accessibility Cohort gains in–depth knowledge about proactive accessibility techniques and the services and guides available from the IAG and learning from fellow cohort members.
• Develop – Each member selects a specific proactive instructional accessibility project to research and add expertise to supplement the body of knowledge available for MSU Denver faculty.
• Connect – Cohort members share insights from their departments and subject matter to guide IAG initiatives and resources and become a proactive accessibility advocate within their department. Members will be more comfortable as an initial point-of-contact for departmental colleagues for accessibility questions and referrals to the IAG, as well as facilitate information sharing between the IAG and their department.
• Report – Cohort members write or record a final summary.
• Disseminate – Cohort members present summary of their project and advocacy status to department colleagues at a department meeting, and strongly encouraged to also present to their school/college, the university, senior leadership, at seminars or conferences, etc.