FY23 Annual Report: ACADEMICS

Academics Results

1. Partner with people from diverse backgrounds to teach.

ACHIEVED:

  • Nicole Villemaire continues as teaching assistant.
  • Sefakor Komabu-Pomeyie teaching Global Disabilities course.
  • Sharing our curriculum with University of Cape Coast in Ghana.

2. Improve accessibility of online teaching at UVM.

IN PROGRESS:

  • Worked with UVM to advocate for accessible online teaching.
  • Working with SILC to update Include!
  • Special Education master’s program moving online. Use what was learned to help improve SILC curriculum.

3. Support career development through courses and internships.

IN PROGRESS:

  • Focus of newly designed micro-certificate.
  • Exploring online certificates and credentials.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • CDCI hired an autistic UVM student who took the Culture of Disability as our summer intern. They worked on transcribing videos, writing a plain-language research summary and collaborating on a Think College Vermont news story.
  • We submitted an NIH research grant to create a new curriculum: Dating and Sexual Education to Address Social Challenges of Autistic Young Adults
  • Winnie is Faculty Advisor for a new student group in the medical school: the Disabilities in Medicine Student Interest Group.

KEY NUMBERS

• 13 Think College students enrolled, 5 graduated.
• 79 UVM students took disability studies courses this year.
• 3 Disability Studies courses offered.