Agenda
Thursday: May 30th, 2024
8:45 am
Check-In Begins - Inspiration Hall
9:00 am
Opening Remarks - Sarah Salam, President-Elect, AHEAD of the Northern Rockies
9:30 am - 12:20 pm
(Almost) Everything I Know About Disability Services and Higher Education in 120 Minutes - Paul Grossman, J.D.
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch - Inspiration Hall
2:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Assistive Animals on Campus:
This session will be led by Jennifer Glad, Associate Legal Counsel and Instructor here at MSU - Bozeman. The session will go over ESAs vs. Service Animals, expectations for students, staff and faculty concerns with animals on campus, and much more!
The History of University Student Conduct:
This session will be led by Matt Caires, The Dean of Students at MSU - Bozeman. From In Loco Parentis to Dean Wormer to today’s emerging adulthood, this session will review the key moments in higher education history and relevant case law that has created our current legal relationship and framework with students. Come learn more about why and how colleges and universities can facilitate student success through student conduct programs.
Interagency Collaboration in Higher Education:
This session will be led by Brent Heuer, an Accessibility Specialist at MSU-Bozeman, in collaboration with MonTech and Vocational Rehabilition. These agencies will address how they work closely with the Disability Services office to meet the needs of students as well as the public to reduce commonly seen barriers in higher education
Mental Health and Discipline:
This session will be led by Paul Grossman, J.D.
4:00 pm
Social Hour in Inspiration Hall
Friday: May 31st, 2024
8:00 am - 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast - Inspiration Hall
8:30 am - 10:20 am
Disability Rights are Civil Rights - Paul Grossman, J.D.
In his 40 years with the US Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Paul has been a first-person witness to the development of equal educational opportunity (diversity, equity, inclusion, and access) in America. He has observed our civil rights histories as a continuum, with each stage building upon the wisdom and accomplishments of earlier movements and each stage more intersectional than its predecessor. As featured in the Academy Award nominated documentary Crip Camp, the Section 504 sit-in, held in San Francisco, was the longest occupation of a Federal building in US history. The disability community has come a long way since the sit-in and passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), but it has a surprising long way to go. With so far to go, equity, inclusion, and access-based support from administrators, faculty and staff is the single most necessary and promising pathway to equality for students with disabilities. Faculty still need to understand the “triple diversity value” (gender, ethnicity and type of disability) that students with disabilities bring to the classroom. Moreover, the advances in learning opportunities for this community through reasonable accommodation and auxiliary aids when implemented through universal design in curriculum and instruction, offers the promise of more effective instruction and evaluation for all students. Finally, Paul will give concrete examples of how, over the course of 22 years of teaching law, he transformed accommodations for students with disabilities into universal practices that benefitted all of his students.
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Accommodating Food Allergies and Dietary Restrictions in Collegiate Dining:
This session be led by Allison LaRock, MSU-Bozeman's Registered Dietitian on campus. Allison will cover the landscape of dining at MSU with food allergies or dietary restrictions. We will explore the role of the registered dietitian and other stakeholders within culinary services working to serve our students. This session will give insight into how we collaborate with the office of disability services to accommodate students with dietary needs.
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
AHEAD of the Northern Rockies Business Meeting - Mandy Madler, President, AHEAD of the Northern Rockies
12:00 pm
Closing Remarks - Inspiration Hall