County Community College
Michael J. Grant Campus
Michael J. Grant Campus
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (specifically, its implementing regulations, 34 CFR ยง 104.44[b] - see https://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/reg/ocr/34cfr104.pdf) identifies the use of tape recorders in classrooms as an appropriate and necessary academic accommodation for qualified students with disabilities:
A recipient to which this subpart applies may not impose upon handicapped students other rules, such as the prohibition of tape recorders in classrooms [...], that have the effect of limiting the participation of handicapped students in the recipient's education program or activity.
Our Legal Office is developing a policy for Student Recording of Class.
Jean Anastasia (Biology, Ammerman), Rachael Millings (Mathematics, Eastern), and Melissa Adeyeye (Communication Studies, Michael J. Grant) have accepted appointment as Program Administrators on the respective campuses. Congratulations to them all! This initiative will facilitate college-wide efforts of building structure and developing processes for student support, curriculum development and assessment within this program.
The Administrators will be assisted in their work by Dr. Tacke-Cushing and a yet-to-be formed faculty committee. An election process for the selection of subsequent program leadership will be created collaboratively as part this initiative.
Paul Basileo is looking for one additional faculty member from each of the three campuses to serve on the OER committee. This committee will be responsible for making recommendations for OER policy, initiatives, events and training. It will also review OER creation incentive requests and recommend any necessary changes to that process. It is anticipated that the committee will meet 2-4 times a year and will take advantage of digital communication tools whenever possible. The plan is to convene this group in October, which adds urgency to this request.
The committee already has librarians representing each campus. Also, Tim McHeffey (Business, East), Vera Hu-Hyneman (Math, Ammerman) and Alyssa Kaufmann (Communication, Grant) have also agreed to serve. The committee is looking for advocates (and preferably users) of OER from a variety of disciplines. If you are interested, or have any questions about this committee, please contact me or Paul Basileo
Grant Academic Standards met on 9/24/19. We welcomed new members to the group and held a vote for representatives for college-wide academic standards. Committee discussed updates from the four main active subcommittees:
No substantial updates from these subcommittees, except the W Policy Blackboard discussion board should be up and running for faculty input by 10/1/19.
Purpose of Committee:
The Campus Life Committee met on 9/17/19. Our next meeting is scheduled for 10/22/19 at 3:30 p.m. in Captree 114. Our committee is working on the following:
The Committee asks you to let us know of any accessibility issues you are aware of, and also to consider joining the committee. The charge of this committee is:
To increase education, awareness and visibility of individuals with disabilities on the Grant Campus and to make recommendations concerning accessibility to resources for faculty effectiveness and student success.
Come join us to determine what the needs are this year and how to best meet our charge.
The Grant campus scholarship committee and college-wide scholarship committee met on June 19 and June 21, respectively, to select the scholarship recipients for the Fall 2019 semester. Collectively (including all campus, college-wide and departmental scholarships), a total amount of $123,875 was awarded to 236 students.
The committee has not met since the last Assembly meeting. The committee's next meeting will be on Friday 11/1.
At the last meeting of the Committee, the chair Camille Karlson mentioned that Blackboard was coming up with some new features and asked campus representatives to pass this information to their constituents. There is also another new software that can be used for ADA compliance, Sensus Access. Trainings on the new features and software have been set throughout the semester for faculty.
The Grant campus scholarship committee and college-wide scholarship committee met on June 19 and June 21, respectively, to select the scholarship recipients for the Fall 2019 semester. Collectively (including all campus, college-wide and departmental scholarships), a total amount of $123,875 was awarded to 236 students.
Our campus has been selected to host a SUNY's Got Your Back on October 23. A SUNY's Got Your Back event is held all over the state. It gives faculty, students and community members the opportunity to create comfort kits for victims/survivors of violence. For this event we are inviting members from the college and local community to help assemble 1000 bags that will be given to local shelters. This will be held in the HSEC Suffolk County Credit Union Arena (formerly the Fieldhouse) from 11 AM to 2 PM. We will have a photographer there for the event. This is an amazing service project for our students that will give them the opportunity to build their volunteer experience. Students that participate will receive volunteer hours from SUNY and a letter of participation.
Please e-mail Danielle DiMauro-Brooks with any questions you have and register using the Eventbrite link https://suffolkgyb.eventbrite.com
The COL 110 Service Learning class will be hosting their first event Take Back Your Life: Cookies For Confidence on October 3 as part of their Mental Health awareness campaign. They will be giving out green ribbons as well as selling bracelets/flowers.
The event will take place in HSEC Lobby between 8 and 9:15 AM.
