{"id":50379,"date":"2018-04-09T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50379"},"modified":"2018-04-13T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:33:18","slug":"senate-hosting-forum-on-academic-accommodations-and-accesssibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/04\/senate-hosting-forum-on-academic-accommodations-and-accesssibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate hosting forum on academic accommodations and accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Chair David Whitehead is inviting all Brock University faculty, staff and students to attend an open educational forum next week\u00a0on the issue of academic accommodations and accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of lawyers will make the presentation Wednesday, April 18 from 3 to 5 p.m. in Sankey Chamber. In advance of the session, all members of the Brock University community are invited to submit questions about the topic to the <a href=\"mailto:universitysecretary@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University Secretary<\/a> no later than Tuesday, April 10\u00a0so that a summary of the questions can be forwarded to the panel participants in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of the question topics regarding academic accommodation could include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Process<\/li>\n<li>Communication<\/li>\n<li>Confidentiality<\/li>\n<li>Academic freedom<\/li>\n<li>Undue hardship<\/li>\n<li>Essential skills<\/li>\n<li>Fairness<\/li>\n<li>Pedagogy and reasonable accommodation<\/li>\n<li>Conflict resolution<\/li>\n<li>Retroactive accommodation<\/li>\n<li>Other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Chair David Whitehead is inviting all Brock University faculty, staff and students to attend an open educational forum next week\u00a0on the issue of Academic Accommodations and Accessibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[6501,5831,303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50501,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50379\/revisions\/50501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}