CBI Agenda

Wednesday, December 6th

6:30 – 8:00pm: Opening Reception & Networking

Thursday, December 7th

7:30 – 8:30am: Breakfast Provided by Marriott Residence Inn

8:30 – 8:40am: Arrive at CNT

8:45 – 9:15am: Welcome and Introductions (CNT)

      Chet Moritz, Co-Director of CNT

      Sheryl Burgstahler, Director of UW’s Accessible Tech. Services & CNT Diversity

      Scott Bellman, CNT Diversity Manager, DO-IT Program Manager

9:15 – 10:00am: Accommodations and Universal Design (CNT)

    Sheryl Burgstahler

10 – 10:15am: Video & Publication: Universal Design of an ERC (CNT)

10:15 – 10:45am: Access Technology Used by People with Disabilities (CNT)

      Gaby de Jongh, UW Information Technology Accessibility Specialist

11 – 11:30am: Web Accessibility (CNT)

                  Terrill Thompson, DO-IT Technology Accessibility Specialist, UW

11:40am: Walk to Husky Union Building

12 – 1pm: Working Lunch & Report Out (HUB 334)

What strategies used to recruit/support other underrepresented groups at your ERC could be repurposed for use in recruiting and supporting people with disabilities?

1:00 – 1:20pm: CNT Promising Practices (HUB 334)

     Eric Chudler, CNT Executive Director & Education Director

     Scott Bellman

1:20 – 2:10pm: Student Perspectives: A Panel Presentation (HUB 334)

     Tamitha Tidwell, DO-IT Project Coordinator

2:10 – 2:20pm: Video: Not Your Inspiration – Stella Young (HUB 334)

2:20 – 3pm: Disability Identity and Disability Culture (HUB 334)

Kayla Brown, UW DO-IT Program Coordinator

3:15 – 4:45pm: Film: Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement (HUB 334)

Tim Brown, Paul Tubig, Sara Goering, and Michelle Pham CNT Ethics Team representatives

Discussion: How do viewpoints of student panelists and individuals in the documentary Fixed affect how you communicate with, recruit, welcome and work with people with disabilities in your ERC?

4:45 – 5pm: Video: STEM and People with Disabilities (HUB 334)

6 – 7:30 pm: Dinner                                                  

Where can we link to resources from our ERC website? What are other ways we can share information at our ERC, including partner institutions?   

Friday, December 8th                        

7:30 – 8:30am: Breakfast Provided by Marriott Residence Inn

8:50 – 9:00am: Welcome and Introduction to the Day (CNT)

9:00 – 9:05am: Video: Disability Sensitivity Training (CNT)

9:05 – 9:15am: AccessERC Products, Activities, and Initiatives (CNT)

     Scott Bellman

9:15 – 11am: Conduct an Accessibility Review of an Engineering Facility

Katherine Pratt, CNT & UW BioRobotics Lab

11 – 11:30am: Action Planning Worksheet & Discussion (CNT)

    Sheryl Burgstahler

11:30 – 11:40am: Final Evaluation (CNT)

11:40 – 12:30pm:  Lunch (CNT)    

Discussion: How can we continue to work together to promote the participation of people with disabilities in ERCs? What activities could be conducted by Student Leadership Councils? By diversity & education leaders? Others?

12:30pm: Wrap Up & Networking (CNT)