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Faculty Accessibility Fellow Program

Individuals who would like to participate are asked to gain approval from their chair and then complete an application form indicating their interest.

Interest or questions about the program can be sent to the current Faculty Accessibility Fellowship coordinator Emily Bovier ([email protected]) or CTS's Nicole Decker ([email protected])

Faculty Accessibility Fellow Application

Program Overview

SUNY Oswego recognizes that digital accessibility is essential to ensuring equity and inclusion. While we have a strong commitment to access for all, it has become increasingly clear that robust infrastructure and faculty support are essential to fully embed accessibility into the institution’s culture. Today, accessibility touches nearly every aspect of campus life, including course materials, the college website, software, and the numerous tools used in curricular and co-curricular programs, services, and activities. 

Launched in January 2019, the Faculty Accessibility Fellows Program fosters a campus culture that prioritizes inclusivity, equity, and accessibility. The fellows:

  • Advocate for accessibility on campus and coach others on accessibility practices
  • Serve as liaisons for departments
  • Research, explore, and implement accessibility best practices, inclusive pedagogy, and universal design for learning.
  • Teach accessibility in class
  • Connect accessibility practices to larger diversity and inclusion initiatives
  • Offer CELT and other professional development workshops related to accessibility that are teaching and learning focused
  • Expand discipline-specific accessibility expertise 

Questions on the program may be sent to the current Faculty Accessibility Fellowship coordinator, Emily Bovier ([email protected]) or CTS's Nicole Decker ([email protected]).

Structure

The fellowship program will consist of:

A Faculty Accessibility Fellow from each of the following:

  • College of Business and Entrepreneurship
  • College of Communication, Media and the Arts
  • College of Education, Health, and Human Services
  • College of Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Engineering

Faculty Accessibility Fellowship Coordinator

  • Usually a former fellow
  • Organizes the meetings and trainings of the fellows
  • Co-chairs the Workgroup on Accessible Teaching
  • Serves as a member of the IT accessibility steering committee

Faculty Accessibility Fellow Application

Fellow Responsibilities

The fellowship runs for the calendar year, during which each fellow should spend 120 hours on the following:

  • Participate in asynchronous & synchronous orientation during CELT winter break out in January
  • Attend weekly meetings (at least 8 times a semester) with the other faculty fellows
  • Participate in professional development on accessibility
  • Updating at least one course so that it includes:
    • UDL (Universal Design for Learning) and/or Inclusive Pedagogy practices
    • Fully accessible digital materials
  • Serving as a coach and ambassador by:
    • Offering at least 2 professional development sessions for faculty and the next cohort of fellows through CELT no later than the semester following your fellowship year.
    • Meeting with individual faculty
    • Meeting with departments
  • Submit an interim report (May 31) and end of year report (December 31) that details how the fellow’s time was spent, what changes were made to the courses the fellow teaches, provides samples of materials, and what other impacts the fellow’s work has had on their department or other colleagues.

Faculty Fellows

College of Business and Entrepreneurship

  • Steve Abraham
  • Tom Ingram
  • Michele Thornton
  • Yiru Wang

College of Communication, Media, and the Arts

  • Todd Graber
  • Donna Greene
  • Krystal Kennel
  • Amy Shore
  • Serenity Sutherland

College of Education, Health, and Human Services

  • Sandra Bargainnier
  • Kathleen Blake
  • Marcia Burrell
  • Susan DiBlasi
  • Jean Hallagan
  • Vanessa Maike
  • Minjung Seo
  • Carol Willard

College of Liberal Arts, Sciences and Engineering

  • Eve Clark Benavides
  • Emily Bovier
  • Michael Chaness
  • Fiona Coll
  • Poongodi Geetha-Loganathan
  • Catalina Iannone
  • Jinyan Guo
  • Ashlee Moore
  • Allison Rank
  • Casey Raymond
  • Roseli Rojo