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First FIG Meeting (Fall, 2024) – CUNY Unlimited Campuses Unite!
First FIG Meeting (Fall, 2024) – CUNY Unlimited Campuses Unite! The first Kingsborough CUNY Unlimited Faculty Development Group (FDG) meeting of Fall 2024 brought together 15 participants to share, discuss, and explore the latest initiatives, challenges, and future plans regarding the inclusion of students with intellectual and other disabilities in higher education at Kingsborough, CUNY […]
First FIG meeting of Spring ’24 – Live from Cafe Joyeux!
FIG 1 Spring Semester 2024 (March 12th) Our first FIG of the Spring semester was a delightful hybrid meeting with 3 faculty and 2 student alumnae in person at the Café Joyeux at 599 Lexington Avenue on Manhattan: Inclusive restaurant and coffee shop – New York City – Café Joyeux US (cafejoyeux.com) The manager of […]
CUNY Unlimited 3nd Meeting, Fall 2023
For our 3rd CUNY Unlimited meeting of Fall 2023, Sue took us an amazing sweep of our FIG’s past and present… with lots of ideas for the future… Below is the recording of our Hybrid Zoom meeting:
CUNY Unlimited 2nd Meeting, Fall 2023
We had 11 staff, faculty, and alumni attend our first ever hybrid FIG meeting, and it was a lively discussion kicked off by two great presentations! Carol led a presentation on universal design for learning, focusing on learning digital tools, that she is doing with her students. She showed a video she made, and a podcast […]
Fall 2023 – First CUNY Unlimited Meeting
We had a good start to our Fall semester, reconnecting with old friends like Ned, Margot, and Michael, and some new ones to our FIG. We updated each other on how various areas of work have been coming along, such as accommodations and changes at Access Ability Services (AAS), including the renewed CUNY focus on […]
CUNY Unlimited 3rd Meeting, Spring 2023
CUNY Unlimited 3rd Meeting, Spring 2023 Our final FIG of the Spring 2023 semester was memorable for a number of reasons. Dr. Stella Woodroffe Director of Accessibility is retiring from KCC after 15 years of service. Stella gave an overview of how accessibility/ inclusion had changed and progressed over her time at KCC. It should […]
CUNY Unlimited 2nd Meeting, Spring 2023
We had 12 people join us for a successful 2nd meeting of our FIG. Below are notes from each portion of the agenda. News from FIG members -Lisa’s updates on working to change NY State Law to include educators without HS diplomas: -Lisa and Michael on education fieldwork Chris Trieber reached out to a couple of the […]
CUNY Unlimited 1st Meeting, Spring 2023
Our first Spring 2022 Cuny Unlimited meeting included 16 participants: Melissa Riggio students, mentors and staff, KCC faculty, alumni and staff. The meeting began with Margot Cole remembering and honoring the life of Judy Heumann who had recently passed. Judy was an inspiring, dynamic and personable disability activist instrumental in the passing of the ADA […]
CUNY Unlimited 2nd Meeting, Fall 2022
At our 2nd FIG meeting of Fall 2022, Carrie Shockley from the CUNY Central Disability Office spoke about the roll out of CUNY Unlimited, and shared several important updates about the program. In the latter part of the meeting, Sue shared parts of her keynote talk at the conference in Salzburg, Austria. Because these were […]
CUNY Unlimited 1st Meeting, Fall 2022
At our first FIG Meeting of Fall 2022 (9/19/22 at 3pm), we had 11 people attend. Margot updated us on her academic studies at PSU Harrisburg – Margot, and we met Safia, a 2016 grad from MRHEP. Gigi playhouse – tough finding a job. Also Karen Fung updated us on her club called “Students 4 Students” […]
