Next Steps for Addressing Accessibility in CAL

In this panel, presenters will propose next steps and better practices for addressing accessibility and disability justice in the College of Arts and Letters at MSU. Through our experiences with technology, social justice, and writing (both the Writing Center and first-year writing), presenters hope to aid understanding of intentional accessibility integration in classroom and programmatic practice. The presentation will be twofold: first, we will describe our relationship with accessibility at work and ask attendees to think about their current relationship to accessibility in their classrooms/programs/offices. Second, we will describe what we believe to be our next steps in CAL and ask attendees to both help revise our plans and consider their own future actions. As part of the conversations, attendees will analyze their own understanding of disability justice and of accessibility, and will leave with resources on assistive technology and on developing meaningful moves for their classes and programming