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Each campus should develop a campus-level mechanism for evaluating compliance levels regarding equally effective access to instructional materials for every student regardless of disability. The structure and process for the evaluation should be consistent with campus culture. It should be performed by a highly respected campus body that has the expertise to perform such an analysis and the campus-wide trust necessary to ensure its internal credibility.
During the life of the Accessibility Technology Initiative (2007-2012), this accountability reporting process should be performed annually and an annual report should be submitted to the President. Once the initiative has completed, the campus should have developed a regular periodic review process for auditing campus compliance regarding equally effective access to instructional materials. This permanent periodic review process need not be annual, but it must be frequent enough and complete enough to provide accurate and credible evidence of campus compliance.
These evaluation reports will be the primary mechanism for collecting and analyzing evidence of campus compliance with equally effective access to instructional materials. If the campus is ever subject to a compliance investigation, these evaluation reports should serve as the primary roadmap for demonstrating campus commitments to equally effective access for all students.
Each campus will also need to identify a campus agent who will be responsible for performing this evaluation. The campus agent, which may be an office (e.g. internal auditor) or a special committee, should be selected base upon competence in performing the task and campus trust of the agent.
Describe the business practices that will be used at each phase of the evaluation process (data selection, collection, analysis, documentation, dissemination, administrative review).
From 2007-2012 the ATI Evaluation Committee will provide an annual report to the President. The first phase of the University’s self-evaluation document will include a gap analysis of the areas affected by ATI. Beginning in 2008-09, all degree programs undergoing program review will be required to establish and implement an Accessible Instructional Materials plan and to report on progress toward this plan in the program review process. Similarly, General Education course certification or re-certification will include a requirement to address accessibility issues.
Describe the staff resources that will be used at each phase of the evaluation process (data selection, collection, analysis, documentation, dissemination, administrative review).
Staff resources will include the University Internal Audits, members of the ATI Evaluation Committee, the Program Assessment and Review Council, GEGC, and efforts on the part of all academic programs and departments to incorporate assessment and evaluation of accessibility plans into existing processes.
Describe the budgetary implications associated with conducting this evaluation. This includes accounting for the availability of personnel with the necessary expertise to complete this task and any costs associated with providing assigned time (where applicable).
Full-time Section 508 Technical Officer position or a .5 Technical Auditor plus .5 Training Coordinator. Existing institutional framework will be used to incorporate accessibility requirements and accountability into academic program review and GE course certification/recertification.
| Deliverable | Status (Yes, No, In Progress) |
Initiation Date | Completion Date (expected) | Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The establishment of an evaluation process | In Progress |
Fall 2007 |
Fall 2008 |
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| The implementation of a process for producing annual compliance reports | In Progress |
Fall 2007 |
Fall 2008 |
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| The development of a process for conducting periodic annual compliance reports | In Progress |
Fall 2007 |
Fall 2008 |
