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Building Up Your Disability Services Toolkit Webinar Series
Running a Small Disability Services Office: Tips and Tricks
March 11, 2015
Running a Small DS Office: Strategic Planning & CAS
Gavin SteigerUniversity of Houston Clear Lake
Overview
• What is a strategic plan and why do you need one?
• Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS)
• Collaboration
Strategic Plan
• It incorporates your colleges and departments vision, mission and value statements.
• It provides a means by which to measure and assess what you are doing.
• It provides a means to assess the impact on identified student learning outcomes on your programs/initiatives.
Why do you need a strategic plan?
• Accountability
• Budget
• Staffing
• Accreditation
• Student Learning Outcomes
CAS: Mission Statement
• The primary mission of Disability Resources and Services (DRS) is to provide leadership and facilitate equal access to all institutional opportunities for disabled students.
• To accomplish its mission, DRS must perform three duties: – provide institution-wide advisement, consultation, and training on
disability-related topics, including legal and regulatory compliance, universal design, and disability scholarship.
– collaborate with partners to identify and remove barriers to foster an all-inclusive campus.
– provide individual services and facilitate accommodations to students with disabilities.
CAS: Assessment and Evaluation
• Disability Resources and Services (DRS) must have a clearly articulated assessment plan to document achievement of stated goals and learning outcomes, demonstrate accountability, provide evidence of improvement, and describe resulting changes in programs and services.
• Use direct and indirect methods
• Use qualitative and quantitative methods
CAS Learning & Developmental Outcomes
• Knowledge acquisition, construction, integration, and application
• Cognitive complexity
• Intrapersonal development
• Humanitarianism and civic engagement
• Practical competence
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