Disability Support Services Council
October 24& 26, 2012
Fall Meeting Minutes
State Board Office, Olympia
Evergreen State College, Olympia
Meeting was called to order at 1:18 p.m. by President Megan Jasurda.
Megan welcomed those in attendance and expressed appreciation to members
attending by ITV. General announcements to include “ground rules” were shared
to assist everyone with feeling safe to share differences of opinions; new DSSC
flash drives were provided to all attending members. These drives included 20112012 conference minutes and 2012-2013 email documents; and a request was
made by both Megan (Jasurda) and Mike (Hoel) asking new members to email
them to be added to the DSSC listserve.
Spring Meeting Minutes/Treasure Report
The spring meeting minutes were reviewed and approved by the membership at
1:45pm. The treasurer’s report was reviewed with a finalized amendment to the
true ending balance of 637.94 made. Copies of the amended treasurer’s report
were distributed. Additional edits included changing Bellingham to Whatcom and
were so noted.
SBCTC Report
Scott Copeland shared this was going to be the shortest state report to date,
highlighting the SBCTC October 2012 Report already handed out to DSSC
members. He shared that the new executive director, Marty Brown did not come
from an educational/higher edu background and that this was also the case with
the new council president.
Scott reminded members to get out the vote with the upcoming presidential
election and shared 1/3 of the house will be brand new and he anticipates doing
a lot of education with new house members. Budget requests were due this
month with a request for an increased benefits package for classified and
exempt. He is hearing of a 1 billion dollar whole again with a 4.1 billion added
request to existing K-12 budget. Lastly, House bills will be discussed but later as
outlined in the DSSC agenda.
Question from DSSC: New liaison is being brought in how will this effect Scott’s
role with DSSC? Scott shared job duties will be shuffled and this could be his last
DSSC conference…
Question from DSSC: Is there a new Policy position being filled also? Scott
advised yes before end of New Year.
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Student Services Commission Liaison Report
Dr. Debra Casey presented to the counsel via ITV and shared the Student
Services Commission was focusing on economics; student success; and
professional development. Objectives included academic achievement; and
student assessment& placement. Also, the LBGTQ Committee brought forward
1500.00 to 2000.00 dollars to purchase a tracking program which should be up
and running prior to the kickoff of the ctcLink being in place.
With regards to the efficiency study, Dr. Casey shared a survey went out to all
colleges specific to Student Services; Financial Aid; Admissions; HR; Accounts
payable and Enrollment to assist with figuring out what the best strategies are to
track information on standardized services; centralized services; and shared
services. Three ideas have been presented by the Hill Group at this time. The
plan is to conduct these evaluations; pilot schools; move to strategies; then to
design; implementation and deployment. Lastly, the 2014 Student Services
Conference is currently being worked on with three potential locations Spokane;
Seattle; or Wenatchee.
Question from DSSC: With the ctcLink are there any DSS representatives? Dr.
Casey shared that there is a Student Services Rep who is the VP at Lower
Columbia and Barbara Martin hears DSSC’s concerns for ensuring accessibility
and is able to come to any meetings if DSSC would like to invite her.
Open Course Library Phase II Review of Accessibility
Tami Jacobs shared SBCTC received monies to develop 100 open courses to be
used all around the world. DSSC was a part of phase I and reviewed initial
courses and their accessibility.
At present Google Doc will be used for phase II. Some concerns are that Google
doc isn’t that accessible but that supposedly they have made improvements in
this area. Tami shared she had the chance to review two courses with some
glitches identified. 42 additional courses/links are available to be reviewed.
Question from DSSC: Does DSSC want/wish to be a part of a phase II review? If
so, we will need to figure out how we want to do this review. Karen (Fusco)
pointed out that DSS folks in general are not experts in this area. Susan
(McPhee) and Troy (Brenner) offered to lead JAWS access.
Tami envisioned DSSC putting together “white paper” for consideration. Karma
(Forbes) asked about Wikipedia and their accessibility vs. Google plus. Tami
shared there is 15K available for DSSC folks to review phase II if voted yes.
A timeline could be winter quarter conference or prior to the spring 2013
conference. Question from DSSC: Can Phase II be done via webinar?
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DSSC decided yes on participating in Phase II. Tami will be lead with organizing
and figuring out how DSSC will do this.
Advocacy on Accessibility Conversation (letter of concern & UD vs.
access/tech committee)
Megan (Jasurda) and Karen (Fusco) lead this discussion siting examples with
canvas product; technology/ctcLink; open course library; and student access.
Apparently, there are states (CA, Texas, and Virgina) that have created policy on
accessibility. The question was posed to DSSC members on what everyone
thought about a state wide accessibility policy? It was agreed that a letter of
concern from DSSC to VP to SBCTC to Legislators might be the way to go. All
agreed that a white paper really needs to be pushed by the state and legislators.
Questions were discussed on whether or not SBCTC could designate an office
position that could be DSSC’s liaison.
A motion to draft a “white paper” on state wide accessibility which would go to the
commission first was discussed and approved.
Hot Topics: Discussions included the following topics.
 Financial Aid/medical withdraws
 Parent requests to attend classes with their Autistic child; Child with
Behavioral Disorders; Child with Executive Functioning Deficits
 Senator Shin Bill
October 26, 2012
Meeting was called to order at 10:45am by President Megan Jasurda who again
welcomed and thanked those in attendance. A general announcement was made
with winter conference dates anticipated for 1-31-13 and 2-1-13. Location to be
confirmed in the following months with suggested sites to include Pierce College,
and GRCC.
Megan (Jasurda) let the DSSC board members know that the next board meeting
would be targeted in December.
Work Plan 2012-2013
Goal 1: Reviewed and discussed with no concerns
Goal 2: Reviewed and discussed with the following amendments “system” is ctc;
draft of a letter of concern; with question on should there be a committee to lead
this goal. Mary (Gerard) offered to contact Canvas Rep to present at winter
conference.
Goal 3: Reviewed and discussed with the following amendments removing North
Seattle to Whatcom. Mary (Gerard) has started SLO at her school (Bellingham)
this current fall and will share with that committee.
A request was made by Kim (Thompson) for finding an on-line assessment tool.
She asked if anyone was interested in leading this to follow-up with her.
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DSSC Question: Are there any other Goals desired? None were identified.
Motion was made and accepted regarding ADA accessible survey. John
(Rajcich) offered to send ADA accessible survey to SLO committee for review
and follow-up. A final motion to accept the 2012-2013 Work Plan was made and
approved.
Committee Break-Out Reports
Committees met in work sessions and then reported back to the council.
Math Accommodations: Megan Jasurda
Megan reported on the results of the survey. There were 16 responses. More
responses are needed and the survey will be sent again. Membership was
encouraged to respond. It was suggested to open this to the WAPED
membership and use a separate link for 4 year institution to respond.
Math course substitutions are being evaluated for Intermediate math courses
with Stat Way, SCCC and TCC piloting this service.
Student Learning Outcomes: Mary Gerard
Mary reported six colleges have begun to move forward with (6) specific SLO.
More will be reported at the 2013 spring conference.
Meeting adjourned at 1:00 with conference evaluations handed out.
Respectfully submitted by Jamie Hatleberg, Secretary on 1-30-13
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