{"id":197,"date":"2010-08-17T16:48:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-08-17T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:48:26","slug":"multicultural-universal-design-checklist-for-the-physical-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/2010\/08\/17\/multicultural-universal-design-checklist-for-the-physical-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Universal Design Checklist for the Physical Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Support Programs (ASP) decided several years ago to assess the effectiveness our office space. \u00a0Our goal was to make our offices as inclusive, welcoming, and universally designed as possible. \u00a0We used the basic premises of Universal Design to create the attached Multicultural Universal Design Checklist for the Physical Environment.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/files\/2010\/08\/SLBmulticultural-checklist2.doc\">SLBmulticultural checklist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This checklist has 11 questions designed to assess an organization&#8217;s physical spaces to determine if they serve all students well, with a particular emphasis on students and staff who are not from the dominant culture. \u00a0We enlisted\u00a0UVM students from our ASP Student Leadership Board to conduct the initial survey in 2008. \u00a0In 2009, our students conducted surveys of other UVM offices, including another review of ASP&#8217;s space. \u00a0Each review produced a written report, which included recommendations for ways to adapt the office space. \u00a0The first report from 2008 is attached for your review.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/files\/2010\/08\/Multi-Report-ASP-20072.doc\">Multi Report ASP 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please use this checklist to evaluate your own office or personal space.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Support Programs (ASP) decided several years ago to assess the effectiveness our office space. \u00a0Our goal was to make our offices as inclusive, welcoming, and universally designed as possible. \u00a0We used the basic premises of Universal Design to create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/2010\/08\/17\/multicultural-universal-design-checklist-for-the-physical-environment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/udl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}