The Association on Higher Education And Disability (ahead) 2015 Saint Paul Minnesota, July 13-18
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AnnouncementsMight You Need a Roommate?Conference organizers will collect a list of individuals who are interested in securing a roommate for the Conference and will distribute that list June 1, 2015, to all who have expressed an interest. Individuals will then be responsible for contacting each other and arranging shared housing. If you would like to be included in the roommate referral program, please email the following information to Jane Johnston, Member Services Coordinator, at Jane@ahead.org: Name; Institution; Gender; Planned check-in date; Planned check-out date; Telephone number, and Email address
CEU InformationAHEAD is applying for CEU approval from CRCC and RID for this Conference. Updated information on obtaining CEU’s will be posted to the Conference website at www.ahead.org after May 29, 2015 and will also be available onsite in St. Paul. Volunteer & Session Moderating InformationAre you friendly and energetic? Willing to “host” a session as a moderator for a room? Do you want to add depth and richness to your Conference experience? If so, you should become a volunteer! We are looking for volunteers to help meet and greet our Conference attendees, distribute Conference materials, work the Silent Auction, assist with hospitality events, and a variety of other activities. If you are interested in spending a couple (literally, just 2) hours volunteering at the 2015 Conference, please indicate your interest on the attached registration form. The volunteer coordinator will contact you closer to the time to work out a scheduled time. Thank you in advance! Want a Lift from time to time?While the distances between venues and meeting spaces are not great (all within a few blocks); we realize that some folks may want or need a lift from time to time. Conference organizers have arranged to have a “fleet” of a dozen scooters available for check out at the registration area of the convention center beginning on Monday morning through Friday afternoon. Scooters will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis; signed out for up to four hours at a time at no cost to attendees, and will be charged between uses and overnight. While not an answer for everyone; we’re hopeful that for some who experience fatigue or maybe just are not longer-walk-friendly and don’t have their own options available – this “getting a lift from time to time” will be just the right answer. Need Some Wifi?Realizing that most attendees now have their “smart phone” and don’t need wifi; conference organizers have made two additional arrangements to assist attendees in staying connected for free. All hotels rooms within the AHEAD block will include high-speed internet at no charge as a part of the standard room rate, and wifi will also be available to conference attendees throughout the Convention Center where all Conference sessions will be held at no charge to attendees. The 2015 AHEAD ProgramAs you look through the following sessions, you’ll see that we’ve labeled keywords as well as intended audience level to help you decide which ones to choose. In addition to our General Sessions, the Program Committee has developed topical tracks, including Disability Studies, Diversity, Civil Rights & Disability Law, and Access Technologies – Hands-on Lab and Lectures. Two highlighted tracks are designed for those new to the field of Disability Resources management, and those who are more seasoned: AHEAD Start: A Coordinated, Comprehensive Conference Program for New Professionals AHEAD’s Standing Committee on Professional Development is once again pleased to offer a strand of concurrent sessions designed specifically for the newer disability service professional. In keeping with the evolving role of disability resource offices, this year’s program balances concurrent sessions on serving the individual student with sessions on the institution-wide consultative role of the office. While we recognize the importance of working individually to identify student barriers and appropriate accommodations, we believe that active collaboration with faculty and institutional colleagues in the physical and information/technology departments of our colleges and universities is essential to creating access. We hope you’ll find the concurrent sessions informing and motivating. We thank the exceptional slate of presenters in advance. AHEAD Leadership and Management Strand Running A DS Office: It is YOUR Business! The work that we do in our disability offices often has all of the same demands and expectations of a business. While it is important to know about various disabilities and reasonable accommodations in order to do our jobs, we also have to satisfy the demands and expectations of our core customers/stakeholders (students, faculty and the campus community) while working effectively with our office and campus colleagues. It does not matter how much you know about disability specific content if it cannot be packaged in a way that genuinely meets the needs of those to whom our office is designed to be a resource. Meeting the needs of our campuses requires effective leadership and management. The sessions in the AHEAD Management Strand, entitled Running a DS Office: It is YOUR Business!, are intended to offer you information that you can use to be a better manager and leader of your office through your position no matter where it fits within the office hierarchy. General concepts to be discussed within the sessions of this strand include: Vision and strategic planning; Leading people within the office, including yourself; Being a leader and collaborator beyond the DS office walls.
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