BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Geography//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://geog.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Geography - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201104T0214Z-1604456071.3409-EO-17299-26@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T130350Z CREATED:20201103T220700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201103T220700Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200724T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200724T193000 SUMMARY: Voices of Access and Disability in Higher Education – Opportunitie s for Change DESCRIPTION: Voices of Access and Disability in Higher Education is a 2-p art webinar series that seeks to address and highlight disability inclusion and access. This panel was held on July 24th 2020. This second panel explo res opportunities for change\, such as through community initiatives\, advo cacy\, redesign of curriculum and more moving forward. How can we […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Voices of Access and Disability in Highe r Education is a 2-part webinar series that seeks to address and highlight disability inclusion and access. This panel was held on July 24th 2020.
This second panel explores opportunities for change\, such as throu gh community initiatives\, advocacy\, redesign of curriculum and more movin g forward.
How can we mobilize this conversation around access and di sability from individual stories of resistance & resilience to collective a ction and avenues for change? How can we better support our community made up of learners and educators with diverse abilities in an equitable manner?
We gratefully acknowledge Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods BC\, UT own@UBC’s Community of Caring grant and the UBC Department of Geography’s E quity and Diversity Committee for their financial support to this event ser ies.
Heather McCain
Executive Directo
r of Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods\, crip doula
Laura Yvonne
Bulk
Disabled scholar and occupational therapist
Deepi
Leihl
Accessibility Collective Coordinator at CiTR
Han
nah Sullivan Facknitz
Artist and MA candidate in the UBC Departme
nt of History
Vivian Ly
Behavioural neuroscience studen
t at Simon Fraser University
Corin Parsons de F
reitas
PhD candidate\, UBC Geography
The above full rec ording of the panel is captioned.
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