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COMMUNITY PROFILE

Designing a Regional Alliances for Persons with Disabilities (RAD) in STEM Education

Facilitator(s): Margo Vreeburg Izzo & Wayne Cocchi
Institution: The Ohio State University & Columbus State Community College

Core Members

  • Margo Vreeburg Izzo, Program Director, Nisonger Center, OSU
  • Wayne Cocchi, Director, Office for Disability Services, Columbus State Community College
  • Steve Rissing, Professor, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, OSU
  • Brenda Brueggemann, Associate Professor, English; Coordinator, Disability Studies Program, OSU
  • Bostwick Wyman, Professor, Mathematics, OSU
  • Stephen Kuusisto, Associate Professor, English; Advisor, Disability Studies Program, OSU
  • Joe Wheaton, Associate Professor, Special Education; Advisor, Disability Studies Program, OSU
  • Scott Danforth, Associate Professor, Education , OSU
  • Maria Palazzi, Director, Adv Computing Center/Art & Design, OSU

Additional Members

  • Steve Acker, Ohio Board of Regents/Collective Action, Technology & Outreach
  • Scott Lissner, ADA Coordinator, Disability Studies and Services, OSU
  • Ken Petri, Director, Web Accessibility Center, Disability Studies and Services, OSU
  • Erin Scott, Sponsored Program Officer, OSURF
  • Susan D. Stumpp, Grants Coordinator, Columbus State Community College
  • Leigh Bookwalter, Graduate Research Associate, Nisonger Center, OSU
  • Alan Kalish, Director, Faculty & TA Development, OSU

Summary of Goals

This community will develop a proposal for a $3,000,000 National Science Foundation project, manage the project, if funded, and revise the proposal if not funded. This five-year multidisciplinary project will increase the quality and quantity of students with disabilities completing associate, baccalaureate and graduate degrees in STEM disciplines and who are well prepared for the professional workforce.

The interdisciplinary and intercollegiate group developing this proposal will be an FPLC, and we will build learning communities into the NSF project. In year one of that grant, at least four FPLCs will be organized among the central Ohio institutions, aimed at enhancing the recruitment, retention, persistence to degree, and career placement for students with disabilities in STEM fields.

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