What’s Happening?

Accessibility is an ongoing endeavor, and thus the Instructional Accessibility Group is constantly looking for new ways to guide faculty to proactive accessibility and promote accessibility awareness and inclusion. We firmly believe that proactive accessibility helps all students regardless of accommodation disclosure status.

The IAG is always looking to improve how we connect and educate faculty to be proactive about accessibility. The trainings listed below are in addition to our current offerings.

Self-paced Accessibility Guides:

• Quick Tips webpage: Improve course digital accessibility in just a few minutes at a time!
• Step-by-step proactive instructional accessibility guides.

Live Training:

• Accessibility Bytes: 30-minute virtual instructional accessibility workshops.
  We will be running Accessibility Bytes with four sessions every other week (sessions are the same all week). Mondays/Tuesdays 3pm, Wednesdays/Thursdays 9am.
• Proactive Accessibility Liaisons (PALs): Accessibility Faculty Cohort, similar to SotL model. Stipend available for faculty who complete and present their final project.
• Pilot PDF Remediation Service. We are partnered with one department as well as PALs and faculty who requested Course Reviews in Fall.

Upcoming Events

• Meeting of the Minds Follow-up Conversation – Spring 2025

Past Events

Academic year 2024-2025

• Meeting of the Minds: Collaborative Learning Using Empathy in the Classroom or Office. 16 August 2024.
  Workshop for faculty and staff to learn about neurodiversity and discuss techniques to build inclusive classrooms and offices.
• MSU Denver Community Collab Summit. 23 August 2024. Lead by Dr. Christina Foust (Communication), co-facilitated discussion on “Defining a Culture of Belonging at MSU Denver.”

Academic year 2023-2024

• Radical Roadrunners Fall Runway, September 2023.
  A radically visible QueerCrip fashion show, featuring Rebirth Garments. IAG collaboration with GITA.
• 2nd Annual MSU Denver Research Symposium. October 2023.
  The IAG participated in the poster session on “What is Accessibility and Why Does It Matter?”
  A digital version of our poster is available.
• 8th Annual MSU Denver Women in Stem Conference. October 2023
  The IAG co-presented a session on Accessibility in Stem with Professors April Hill and Alycia Palmer (both from Chemistry).

• Disability and World Language Learning: Inclusive Teaching for Diverse Learners.
  Sally S. Scott and Wade A. Edwards. ISBN-13: 978-1475837056.
• Radical Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century.
  Edited by Alice Wong. ISBN-13: 978-1984899422.
• Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist.
  Judith Heumann, with Kristen Joiner. ISBN-13: 978-0807002803.
• The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs.
  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. ISBN-13: 978-1551528915.