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Article on a11y in #k12 and #HigherEd web content. Too often places don't think about it until they have a student with a11y needs, and then it is like "oh, how do we do that?" (or, worse, "do we really need to do that for just one student?")
Quote from UNM prof: “Spending your whole life advocating for yourself” to get accessible materials is “demoralizing and draining and inappropriate,”
A11y should be built in, not added after needed.
https://www.k12dive.com/news/schools-colleges-title-ii-digital-accessibility/715184/
How can schools prepare for ADA digital accessibility requirements?
A new U.S. Department of Justice rule aims to ensure that state and local government web content and mobile apps are accessible for people with disabilities.Kara Arundel (K-12 Dive)
https://theconversation.com/commencement-isnt-just-about-awarding-degrees-and-cancellations-leave-students-disconnected-and-disillusioned-229425
#News #CampusProtests @academicchatter #HigherEd
Commencement isn’t just about awarding degrees – and cancellations leave students disconnected and disillusioned
Rites of passage are important. They do not merely celebrate the transition to a new state – they actively create this new state in the eyes of society, an anthropologist writes.The Conversation
"First, we should welcome AI’s disruption of 200-year-old practices that ought to have been retired long ago. Second, let’s not try to preserve old approaches as AI-proof or AI-compatible; that’s just new wine in old skins. Instead and third, let’s fill our newfound instructional void with practices that engender curiosity, stimulate deeper learning and lead to greater human understanding." #HigherEd #AIEd #Teaching #EdTech
Embracing AI’s Disruption in Higher Education
It won’t do higher education any good to resist AI. Rather, institutions should focus on using it to free up faculty time for more humanistic purposes.Jonathan Gyurko | President and Co-Founder, Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) (Modern Campus)
At Columbia University and elsewhere, law enforcement is displaying a growing militarization when it's sent in against protesters, according to a criminal justice historian
https://theconversation.com/why-universities-turn-to-the-police-to-end-student-protests-and-why-that-can-spiral-out-of-control-229158
#News #BreakingNews @academicchatter #HigherEd
Why universities turn to the police to end student protests − and why that can spiral out of control
While most colleges and universities have their own police units, some schools, like Columbia University, have only private security − and then can call in outside police when they feel it is needed.The Conversation
My faculty association's response to the university's recent letter to students:
"The Administration appears to believe that with the stroke of a pen it can transform freedom of expression from a fundamental right, the protection of which is the sine qua non of the University, into a privilege that the Administration may confer or deny at its pleasure. This cannot stand."
https://www.utfa.org/sites/default/files/2024-04-30_utfa_letter_re_demonstrations.pdf
A University of Georgia student was sent this notice of interim suspension after he was arrested Monday at a protest.
The email at 5:09 pm asked him to explain why he shouldn't be suspended by 5:10 pm or it would go into effect at 5:11 pm.
(h/t Patrick Quinn/ATLNewsFirst)
#georgia #palestine #protest #highered #news
University protests against Israel's war in Gaza are spreading across the U.S. After multiple Columbia University students were arrested last week for refusing to leave an encampment, arrests were made at Yale University today.
Daily Beast has a recap of what's happening, including new protests at New York University and the University of Michigan: https://flip.it/2MJY.s
For more stories on the Mideast crisis, follow @israel-hamas-war-thenewsdesk
