Commission on Disability Access and Design
CDAD Minutes 10-18-12
NAU Long-range Planning Commission (initiatives to consider)
-Focus on quality, academic success, and making a difference in student life
-Diversify the student body to respond to changing demographics and the need
to prepare students to operate in a multicultural, global society
Chaffe
Strategic Plan (3 to 5-year plan)
-Goal 5 and 7 sub-goals and strategies
-Universal Designs
-Update to include verbage from President’s address?
-working with Pearson to increase accessibility (improving)
-increased local support facilitates NAU ability to accommodate student needs
-existing contracts
Robert Young
-update on DSAB
-North Hall lift fixed
-accessibility project on hold until next semester
-desire for NAU to recognize community needs
-needs/issues from survey
-recruiting more people (only Rob and treasurer) - need 200
-assembling committee to handle Campus Accessibility Project
-trying to recruit more advisors (only Chris)
-Karen Granden (RSA) meeting setup
-April, first Friday, at Heritage Square
-diversity commissions meeting to recruit other commissions
-community event (NAU and local)
-Bernice Lewis (guest speaker/singer)
-Hopi Tribe supportive of event
-funding from NAU for event
Flagstaff Commission of Disability Awareness
-very diverse
-compelling
-open and honest
-people there for right reasons
-Diablo Burger won award for service (go out of their way to help)
-how to create environment that lessen needs to go out of way
-physical developments should be there
-importance of caregiver
-foster more independence
-physical environments should facilitate more
Update on Derrick Horne
-date set for assembly hall
-Cline Library - presentation
-DSAB put forth stack proposal for funding
-visit some classrooms (poetry, ethnic studies)
-pursue FDSD
-March 6, 2013 (Wednesday)
-funding needed ~$10,000
-Dr. Camacho could be on-board with proof of other support
Geodesign Studio
-inclusive design
-Jamie and Chris co-PI grant
-number of people involved in process
-presenting at geodesign summit
Dispute between Google and writers
-decision of federal circuit court related to copyright law (Chaffe amendments)
-companies consider digitizing material at universities not fair use (copyright violation)
-ruling by courts state it is fair use for people with disabilities
Physical environment design
-classroom space and design
-upcoming projects
-science and health lab (lot NE of field house)
-tiered seating (best design?)
-change of design (flat better?)
-incorporating Universal Design (not just compliance)
-adjustable tables as alternatives
-example given:
-UA biomedical building (learning lab)-120 seat classroom
-no more than 6 students per table (with monitors)
-try to organize a commission visit
-set of standards create greater efficiency in place of lobbying each time
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Classroom Design
plan reviewers - look at floor plans - ** RFQ --
lecture halls
Matt to organize a CDAD visit to review the floor plans. ###
A/V standards Karen Appleby - administering A/V grant 1mil.
Dinning expansion II
off the Hot Spot
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Formal response to Long Term Planniing - Matt and Jamie - Executive comm
to make recommendation