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Faculty honoured for keeping campus inclusive to all students

September 29, 2015

I Am Accessible award winners are:  (from left, back row) Ben Tippett, Milka Beck, Allison Hargreaves, Aleksandra Dulic, Yang Cao. In front are: Ramon Lawrence, Daniel Keyes, and Paul Davies. Missing from the photo are: Richard Plunkett, Ruth Frost, Matthew Rader, and Hsing-Ming Chang.

I Am Accessible award winners are: (from left, back row) Ben Tippett, Milka Beck, Allison Hargreaves, Aleksandra Dulic, Yang Cao. In front are: Ramon Lawrence, Daniel Keyes, and Paul Davies. Missing from the photo are: Richard Plunkett, Ruth Frost, Matthew Rader, and Hsing-Ming Chang.

A dozen faculty members were honoured recently by the Disability Resource Centre (DRC) as it presented the annual I Am Accessible award.

The I Am Accessible award gives UBC a chance to recognize faculty members for their accessibility efforts in their classrooms over the past year, says Diversity Advisor Earllene Roberts.

“Each year we ask students registered with the Disability Resource Centre to nominate a professor who they felt really exemplified accessibility in the classroom or in their teaching practice,” says Roberts. “This year’s response was phenomenal and indicates a growing awareness of how important it is that our campus community be inclusive.”

In recognition of their exceptional efforts, the DRC presented the nominated professors with small gifts of appreciation, while several, who were described as going ‘above and beyond’ were presented with an original painting from members of Kelowna’s Cool Arts Society.

The award also gave student nominators an opportunity to personally recognize each of the professors for their efforts.

I Am Accessible award winners for the 2014/15 academic year are:

  • Yang Cao, senior instructor, School of Engineering — nominated by Akshay Sapra
  • Aleksandra Dulic, assist. prof, Faculty of Creative and Critical studies — nominated by Angela Cyr
  • Allison Hargreaves, assist. prof, Faculty of Creative and Critical studies — nominated by Barb Dawson
  • Ben Tippett – Math instructor with the Irving K Barber School of Arts and Sciences — nominated by Edward Smith Griffiths
  • Richard Plunkett, biology instructor with the Irving K Barber School of Arts and Sciences — nominated by Genevieve Mylocopos
  • Ramon Lawrence, assoc. prof. of computer science, Irving K Barber School of Arts and Sciences — nominated by Lawrence Fritzler
  • Ruth Frost, assoc. prof. of history, Irving K Barber School of Arts and Sciences — nominated by Madisen Steinwand
  • Daniel Keyes, assoc. prof. Faculty of Creative and Critical studies — nominated by Madisen Steinwand
  • Milka Beck, lecturer, Faculty of Creative and Critical studies — nominated by Natalie Wong
  • Paul Davies, assoc. prof. of psychology Irving K Barber School of Arts and Sciences — nominated by Nina Gregoire
  • Matthew Rader, assist prof Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies — nominated by Elisa Ip Ying
  • Hsing-Ming Chang, sessional statistics instructor, Irving K Barber School of Arts and Sciences — nominated by Elisabeth Maas
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