08/22/2020
Friends who visit my page - my hope is to develop my web site further in late 2020 and early 2021. I’ll post small notices on Facebook, which will then connect people to my TMLS Consulting Inc. web site.
Let me describe briefly what the past four years have included. In 2017, I completed a 2.5 year role as Interim Director of Disability Support Services at California State University, Fullerton. It was a great experience and I have some lasting friends!
Around the end of this role, I began to do more External Evaluations of Disability Resource Centers for AHEAD and for NASPA, who started a consulting service aimed at VPSA’s who wanted division wide or departmental reviews. I did about 3 institutional evals for each organization.
Then in 2018, I took on what became a two-year consulting role with Pomona College, the largest liberal arts college that is part of the Claremont Colleges. It was a slow process but I and my co-consultants were able to greatly assist in reorganizing the work, advocating for resources and doing a lot of policy/procedures work and some training.
In 2019, I signed a one year contract with Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah to do an analysis and reorganization of their DRC. This ended in March 2020. As this ended, I began working with Brandman University in Irvine, a predominantly online university with mostly adult students and lots of veterans. This role which was initially time-limited is ongoing until December 2020. There have been many transitions and changes. I am having to expand my knowledge and capacity to address myriad organizational and digital accessibility challenges for this institution.
To close, my longer term dream project is to continue working on a “manual or guidebook” about Disability Resources. Over my 40 years working in Disability Resources in Higher Education (including 30 years as the Director and ADA Coordinator at William R. Harper College in Illinois), I have...to parody the Farmer’s Insurance TV ad “learned a lot because I’ve seen a lot”. I’ve been searching and collecting novel and model ways to improve the work that we are charged to do. Stay tuned for what’s next! I will start sharing some resources and perspectives in the future.
I’ve include some pictures of friends and places over the past several years!
