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Dear Leah and Katherine, On behalf of the CSCU Accessibility Council and its selection committee, we are thrilled to notify you that you have been nominated and selected for the inaugural Betsey Doane Digital Accessibility Innovation Award!
This program is named after an inspirational accessibility advocate and educational innovator, Betsey Doane, who has been teaching mathematics for Housatonic Community College for over 50 years.
Like Betsey’s work, your colleagues have recognized your innovative work as furthering digital accessibility and inclusion within the CSCU system. Our winners were selected based on the following criteria:
- Addressing a clearly defined need or problem within digital accessibility and inclusion
- Describing the innovative solution to the accessibility problem/need
- Presenting the impact/effectiveness of the solution
- Describing how the solution could be replicated/scaled by others
- Presenting evidence of the work
Nomination Summary
Leah and Katherine partnered with CrisRadio (sight-impaired programming) on a grant to provide historical content about soldiers of color at the Redding Encampment during the American Revolutionary War. This project aims to make accessible generally unknown information about the roles of unacknowledged participants at the site of the Continental Army’s 1778-1779 winter encampment in Redding, Connecticut during the Revolutionary War for both in-person and virtual visitors to Putnam State Memorial Park. The National Parks Service American Battlefield Protection Program identified the “Forgotten Voices of the American Revolutionary War” grant application as “one of the outstanding projects meriting funding” and the project received praise from Congressmen John Larson and Jim Himes as well as the DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes.
Congratulations!
CSCU Accessibility Council Selection Committee
- Fran Apfel, Norwalk Community College
- Patrick Carr, CSCU System Office
- Kevin Corcoran, CSCU System Office
- Sarah Ellis, Charter Oak State College
- Sandra Flores-Gonzales, Eastern Connecticut State University
- Kimberly Sorrentino, CT State Community College