Live Blog: 09/02/2020
Goood morning! It's a short council today but a few important things on the agenda. We're hiring the UHP for Accessibility Needs and electing people to the Galley Board of…
Goood morning! It's a short council today but a few important things on the agenda. We're hiring the UHP for Accessibility Needs and electing people to the Galley Board of…
good morning! council has been called to order! agenda has been adopted! amendments to minutes: Levi as non-voting member because they were acting as interim chair Include mason's name on…
Hello! This is the (likely) last council meeting before the break! We're just waiting on quorum to start! Meeting has been called to order and the land acknowledgement has taken…
The meeting has been called to order, but we don’t have a scribe! We are now on recess. Item 2: statement by the EVP about the letter released on Thursday.…
Sign the Open Letter - DALHOUSIE REMOVES NOTE-TAKING ACCOMMODATION
View the statement by the KSU Executive here
Sign the Open Letter to Dalhousie here
Earlier this term, Dalhousie got rid of the note-taking accommodation. The accommodation provided to students with disabilities, typed notes from peers in the class. The accommodation levelled the playing field for students whose disability created a barrier to physically entering the classroom space, or who struggled to record class content while present. Despite approving the note-taking accommodation for students this term, Dalhousie switched over to a recorded lecture model. The model asks that professors share recorded lectures with students who have been approved for the accommodation. Dalhousie neglected to inform both students requiring the accommodation and professors of the change. Instead, they opted to quietly remove the note-taking portal from the website after classes had resumed, leaving both students and professors to figure it out on their own.Â
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