{"id":9622,"date":"2008-09-10T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=9622"},"modified":"2013-06-04T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T18:29:18","slug":"new-commission-to-focus-on-disability-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/new-commission-to-focus-on-disability-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"New commission to focus on disability issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The university is enhancing its commitment to promote a welcoming and inclusive campus for anyone with a disability.<\/p>\n<p>NAU&#8217;s Americans with Disabilities Act committee has evolved into the Commission on Disability Access and Design and is now an official advisory group to the Office of the President.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We intend to increase our collaborations with the university community to create a welcoming, supportive and inclusive university community free from physical and attitudinal barriers to services, programs and activities,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Chris Lanterman<\/strong>, chair of the commission and a lecturer in the College of Education.<\/p>\n<p>The commission will meet on the third Thursday of each month and welcomes participants interested in disability issues. The next meeting is from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sept. 18, in the Oak Creek room in the University Union.<\/p>\n<p>For information, contact Lanterman at (928) 523-3575 or e-mail\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Chris.Lanterman@nau.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Chris.Lanterman@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/new-commission-to-focus-on-disability-issues\/\">The university is enhancing its commitment to promote a welcoming and inclusive campus for anyone with a disability. NAU&#8217;s Americans with Disabilities Act committee has evolved into the Commission on Disability Access and Design and is now an official advisory group to the Office of the President. &#8220;We intend to increase our collaborations with the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}