[Access Lunch] Fwd: [AccessSTEM] This week in accessibility

[Carl Haynes-Magyar]

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From: Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessSTEM] This week in accessibility
To: AccessSTEM Team participants <accessstem at u.washington.edu>


I liked the article on remote options. I can strongly relate to the
autistic student in the loud lecture hall. I'm blind, as well as
hypersensitive, and I literally don't understand how it's physically
possible to learn at all in a room with 100+ students making noise and
talking, especially when they break out into groups and everyone is
talking. How can you possibly pick out a single individual? I just hear
noise. I sometimes wonder if everyone else is just pretending that they're
working in these nonfunctional spaces.

On Jun 12, 2023, at 2:01 PM, blaser at uw.edu wrote:

Hi all -

Here's some of what I read *last* week.  :)

Brianna

Articles and reports


   - Reputation, Affordability, Location and… Mental Health?
   <http://insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2023/06/06/how-prospective-students-value-colleges-mental>
   (Inside Higher Ed) Marcus Hotaling, director of Union College’s
   Eppler-Wolff Counseling Center and president of the Association for
   University and College Counseling Center Directors, toured campuses this
   year with his precollege daughter and noticed something interesting. Tour
   guides, he recalls, “were actively talking about counseling services,
   letting people know of the services and sessions” available to students.
   - Report: Colleges Help, and Hurt, Student Mental Health
   <https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2023/06/07/how-colleges-both-help-and-hurt-student-mental>
   (Inside Higher Ed) College students face a wide range of challenges in
   their mental health, and institutions may be compounding the problem. A May
   report commissioned by the educational consultant group College Futures
   Foundation details the structures of higher education that can impact the
   mental well-being of its learners, both positively and negatively.
   - Recognizing an ‘Untapped Resource’
   <https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/diversity/2023/06/06/illinois-lawmakers-urge-neurodiversity-inclusion-higher-ed>
   (Inside Higher Ed) The Illinois General Assembly recently passed a
   resolution encouraging colleges and universities to recognize the strengths
   of neurodiverse students and employees and better accommodate their needs.
   It also calls on these institutions to adopt an inclusion statement that
   “embraces the fact that every student is different and should be encouraged
   to reach their full potential.”
   - More Students Want Virtual-Learning Options. Here’s Where the Debate
   Stands.
   <https://www.chronicle.com/article/more-students-want-virtual-learning-options-heres-where-the-debate-stands?sra=true&cid=gen_sign_in>
   (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Concentrating in large lecture halls
   has always been a challenge for Harper Chambers, a rising senior studying
   neuroscience at Princeton University. That’s because Chambers has autism,
   which he said makes him extra sensitive to light and noise. But when
   Chambers got a concussion last fall, his “acute” sensitivity temporarily
   became even more severe.
   - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: When communication all changed
   <https://themindhears.org/2023/06/08/equity-diversity-and-inclusion-when-communication-all-changed/>
   (The Mind Hears) On Wednesday March 11, 2020, the governor of New York
   announced that all in-person classes were to be suspended at my university
   until the end of the semester. As the news spread, my colleagues speculated
   that the shutdown might last a few weeks or months. To me it felt more
   significant, not unlike the aftermath of 9/11 when we realized that the
   world had irrevocably changed. As a virologist, I had some idea about what
   was to come; as a deaf individual, I did not fully comprehend what this
   would entail for me.


Events and Opportunities

   - Now hiring – join the ASAN team!
   <https://autisticadvocacy.org/2023/06/now-hiring-join-the-asan-team/?emci=eba6444c-7c04-ee11-907c-00224832eb73&emdi=4ee875c4-a404-ee11-907c-00224832eb73&ceid=27125712&fbclid=IwAR2Wr2RLCZiHmPBsYCSy4DKdDfxDRMBlOZuuC85d8yoWHoBL0tyzrbX04-Y>
   (Autistic Self Advocacy Network) ASAN is hiring for a Communications
   Associate position. Consider becoming a part of the team and helping us
   reach our grassroots community! The Communications Associate will take the
   lead on communicating effectively about ASAN’s work, events, and
   publications. They will also take an active role in planning events
   including Day of Mourning and ACI. They will work closely with ASAN’s
   Deputy Director of Operations. The job is a salaried position paying
   $57,000/year with comprehensive health insurance and up to 5 weeks of paid
   time off per year.


Brianna Blaser, Ph.D. (she/her)
University of Washington, DO-IT
washington.edu/doit
206-221-4163 |  blaser at uw.edu
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