[Athen] FW: 13th Annual CUNY Accessibility Conference - Call for Proposals

[Christopher Leydon]

The CUNY Accessibility Conference will be fully remote for a third year this April. The Conference Committee welcomes submissions from a wide variety of perspectives relating to this year’s theme. Please see the detailed CFP below. Apologies for cross-posting, but kindly share in you networks.

All the best,
Christopher

Christopher Leydon, PhD (he, him, his)
Associate Director of Student Services
CUNY School of Professional Studies
15 Years of Leading Online Education at CUNY

P. 646-664-8616
E. Christopher.Leydon at cuny.edu<mailto:Christopher.Leydon at cuny.edu>


[CUNY Accessibility Conference logo]

13th Annual CUNY Accessibility Conference
The State of Accessibility: Are We Living Up to the Promise of Compliance and the Law?
Four Day Virtual Event, 2022
Monday, April 11th
Tuesday, April 12th
Wednesday, April 13th
Thursday, April 14th

Call for Proposals<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.office.com_r_DJ2Gh2Jb0E&d=DwMGaQ&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=0Ul3GXdYKfn42-r6wjslrZhV3M323q3dhAxIAH07AQ4&m=DuEHoh6XUjY-JRiad1Ni1t54AFZ8x_pWpUadjAWP3HA&s=Ir7AVuTgJklu5YoHBr832cL_Bne4Kf7gMb7P5woPV3U&e=>

Each year, the CUNY Accessibility Conference brings together hundreds of participants from the New York City region and across North America to discuss accessibility, disability services and disability activism in the context of postsecondary education.

Two years after the start of an unprecedented pandemic and resultant transitions nationwide, we are returning to our foundation. The conference theme for 2022 is The State of Accessibility: Are we living up to the promise of compliance and the law? With this theme we hope to reflect topics such as on meeting the promise, falling short, advancements the law did not anticipate, and moving beyond a legal framework of accessibility.

Suggested Topics
We invite proposals for engaging presentations that will foster meaningful discussion on topics including, but not limited to:

  *   Current state of ADA
  *   30+ year: history of ADA
  *   Transitioning from IDEA to ADA
  *   ADA for international students
  *   Beyond the law: disability frameworks
  *   Disability justice
  *   Legal intersections
  *   New barriers, new solutions
  *   Promoting and facilitating accessibility across all institutional functions
  *   Concerning complaints and considering compliance
  *   Section 14(c) of the FLSA
  *   SSDI: forced poverty
  *   WCAG compliance
  *   Student involvement in establishing policy and practice to ensure compliance
  *   Knowing who we serve
  *   The role of creativity in achieving compliance
  *   Perils and promise of the virtual environment
  *   Tools and methods for tracking compliance

We are particularly interested in detailed proposals for presentations that:

  *   seek to engage the audience via remote platforms (discussions, breakout rooms, surveys/polls, collaborative tools, etc.)
  *   feature cross-disciplinary work

Submit your Proposal
Please fill out our Call for Proposals form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.office.com_r_DJ2Gh2Jb0E&d=DwMGaQ&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=0Ul3GXdYKfn42-r6wjslrZhV3M323q3dhAxIAH07AQ4&m=DuEHoh6XUjY-JRiad1Ni1t54AFZ8x_pWpUadjAWP3HA&s=Ir7AVuTgJklu5YoHBr832cL_Bne4Kf7gMb7P5woPV3U&e=>. Proposals are due by February 21st. Presentations will be 60 minutes long along with an extra 15 minutes for questions and answers (total 75 minutes). You will be notified by the committee regarding the acceptance of your proposal by March 8th. For questions, please email Tania Kalaitzidis at akalaitzidis at qcc.cuny.edu<mailto:akalaitzidis at qcc.cuny.edu>.

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