Acknowledgments

FAME Project Director

Margo Izzo (izzo.1@osu.edu), The Ohio State University

Special Thanks

We express sincerest and deepest gratitude to the Americans with Disabilities Act Office, Technology Enhanced Learning & Research (TELR), and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) at Ohio State University for their extremely generous support and cooperation, from project inception through development to final product. Their significant efforts, hours and days spent, and ongoing patience made each of the modules a tangible reality.

We are also humbly indebted to the staff at the Ohio Learning Network (OLN) http://www.oln.org/ and partnering staff at the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) (http://www.ohiolink.edu/) for sustaining the FAME curriculum, in addition to key Ohio State University affiliates working alongside these organizations. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the following individuals for making the continuation of FAME possible. Their generous abundance of vision, resources, and effort has given this project its form, substance, and spirit:

Technical Planning & Development Lead Contributors (in alphabetical order by last name)

• Steve Acker, The Ohio State University
• Bryce Bate, The Ohio State University
• Cable Green, Ohio Learning Network
• Sheryl Hansen, Ohio Learning Network
• Scott Lissner, The Ohio State University
• Deepanker Mathur, The Ohio State University
• Peter Murray, Ohio Library & Information Network

Project Contributors

We would sincerely like to thank the content contributors for their time, energies, and resources in helping to create FAME:

• Content for the Rights & Responsibilities (R&R) module has been developed thanks to Ohio State University collaborators consisting of faculty, administrators, disability services personnel, students with disabilities, and support staff.

  R&R Contributors (in alphabetical order by last name)

  • Jennifer Aaron, The Ohio State University
  • Brenda Brueggemann, The Ohio State University
  • Wayne Cocchi, Columbus State Community College
  • Shannon Crabtree, Lansing Community College
  • Pam Davis, Lansing Community College
  • Tom Fish, The Ohio State University
  • Anne Herzog, West Chester University
  • Margo Izzo, The Ohio State University
  • Lauren Kelley, The Ohio State University
  • Megan Kilgore, The Ohio State University
  • Scott Lissner, The Ohio State University
  • Natalie Martin, The Ohio State University
  • Leah Monaghan, The Ohio State University
  • Alexa Murray, The Ohio State University
  • Marty Patwell, West Chester University
  • Elizabeth Ryan, The Ohio State University
  • Evette Simmons-Reed, Ohio School for the Blind
  • Rich Torres, Lansing Community College
  • Christy Willis, George Washington University

  Associate Editor: Alexa Murray, Ohio State University

• Content for the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) module has been developed thanks to Skip Stahl, Director of Technical Assistance, CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) http://www.cast.org Assistant Editors: Amy Ingalls, Center for Applied Special Technology, and Alexa Murray, The Ohio State University.
• Content for the Web Accessibility & Assistive Technology (WA) module has been developed thanks to David Sweeney, Director of Information Technology, Division of Student Affairs, Disability Services, Texas A&M University. Assistant Editor: Alexa Murray, The Ohio State University.
• Content for the College Writing (CW) module has been developed thanks to Brenda Brueggemann, Associate Professor of English, The Ohio State University. Associate Editors: Rebecca Dingo, Jason Palmeri, and Elizabeth Ryan, The Ohio State University. Assistant Editors: Catherine Braun, Lauren Kelley, and Megan Kilgore, The Ohio State University. Special thanks to: Robbin Zeff, George Washington University, for her contributions and edits on the CW module and her ongoing enthusiastic support of our project and its mission of promoting greater access to instruction.

• Content for the Climate Assessment (CA) module including sample instruments has been developed thanks to collaborators at the University of Hawaii, Florida Atlantic University, and The Ohio State University.

  CA Contributors (in alphabetical order by last name)

  • Steve Brown, University of Hawaii
  • Deb Casey-Powell, Florida Atlantic University
  • Margo Izzo, The Ohio State University
  • Scott Lissner, The Ohio State University
  • Kathryn Plank, The Ohio State University
  • Alexa Murray, The Ohio State University
  • Bob Stodden, University of Hawaii

  Associate Editor: Alexa Murray, The Ohio State University

  With sincerest appreciation to: Kathryn Plank, The Ohio State University, Jeanne Higbee, University of Minnesota, and Jan Bosold, The Ohio State University, for their editing contributions, and to Darcy Haag Granello, The Ohio State University, for her foundational resources. Without their significant contributions, this module would not have been possible.

Other Contributors

We would sincerely like to thank our national partners for their collaboration and ongoing support:

• Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) http://www.ahead.org
• Center for Applied Special Technologies (CAST) http://www.cast.org
• Columbus State Community College, OH http://cscc.edu/docs/Disability/indexds.htm
• George Washington University, Washington D.C. http://gwired.gwu.edu/dss/
• HEATH Resource Center at George Washington University http://www.heath.gwu.edu/
• Lansing Community College, MI http://www.lcc.edu/odss/
• National Center for the Study of Postsecondary Supports (NCSPS) http://www.rrtc.hawaii.edu/
• West Chester University, PA http://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/cae.sds/

We would also like to extend sincere appreciation to our Ohio State affiliates:

• Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) http://accad.osu.edu/
• American with Disabilities Act Coordinator’s Office (ADA Coordinator’s Office) http://ada.osu.edu/
• Office for Disability Services (ODS) http://www.ods.ohio-state.edu/
• Office of Information Technology (OIT) http://www.oit.osu.edu/index.php
• Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR) http://telr.ohio-state.edu/

In addition to the above partners, we would like to gratefully acknowledge individuals and programs at other institutions for contributing their resources to this project. We could not have done it without their pioneering efforts in the field of disability awareness:

• The Accommodating Students with Disabilities (ASD) Project, Utah State University
  • Website: http://asd.usu.edu/
  • Project Director: Chuck Salzberg
• Curriculum Transformation and Disability (CTAD) Project, University of Minnesota
  • Website: http://www.gen.umn.edu/research/CTAD/default.htm
  • Project Director: Judy Fox
• Dialogues on Diversity, University of Michigan
  • Website: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/StudentInfo/Diversity/
  • Program Director: Pat McCune
• Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT) Project, University of Washington
  • Website: http://www.washington.edu/doit/
  • Project Director: Sheryl Burgstahler
• Engaging Differences Project, University of Kentucky
  • Website: http://www.uky.edu/TLC/grants/uk_ed/
  • Project Director: Kristina Krampe
• Project PACE, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  • Website: http://www.ualr.edu/pace/
  • Project Director: Melanie Thornton

Last but certainly not least, we offer our deepest appreciation to approximately 500+ faculty, administrators, and staff at 23+ institutions of higher education and beyond, across Ohio and the nation, that have made the FAME modules a better resource through their thoughtful review and feedback.