Disabilities Services Review Team: Open Meeting
Provost Barchi, Deputy Provost Conn, and Vice Provost Swain-Cade McCoullum
have initiated a Disabilities Services for Students Review Team to "conduct
a comprehensive review of the structure for delivery of disabilities services
for students at Penn. The Team should make whatever recommendations might
improve the integration and delivery of disabilities services to serve the
needs of the increasing number of Penn students presenting with physical,
learning, and psychiatric disabilities."
An open meeting for the Penn community with the Review Team will be
held Thursday, September 14, from 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the Auditorium,
second floor, Houston Hall. Members of the Penn community, especially students,
faculty, and staff concerned with student disabilities issues, are welcome
to discuss with the Review Team any aspect of the delivery of disability
services for students at Penn.
Review Team members:
- Dr. Susan Piliero (Team Chair), Director of the Center for Learning
and Teaching, Associate Professor, Department of Education (Mathematics),
Cornell University
- Dr. Matthew Tominey, Director of Student Disability Services, Cornell
University
- Dr. Susan M. Pliner, Project Coordinator, Columbia University
- Dr. Anthony Rostain, Director of Education, Associate Professor of
Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Penn
- Dr. John Richetti, Professor of English, Penn
- Dr. Alice Kelley, Assistant Dean of Advising, Penn
- Dr. Myrna Cohen (Staff for the Team), Associate Director for
Learning Resources, Penn
- Dr. Max King (Liaison for the Team), Executive Director of the
Office of the VPUL, Penn
- Dr. Peter Conn (ex officio), Deputy Provost, Penn
- Dr. Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum (ex officio), Vice Provost
for University Life, Penn
--Max King, Office of the Vice Provost for University
Life |
