{"id":43088,"date":"2024-05-10T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/?p=43088"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T14:28:00","slug":"prof-says-campus-accessibility-remains-deplorable-pitches-campaign-to-change-that-by-200th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/prof-says-campus-accessibility-remains-deplorable-pitches-campaign-to-change-that-by-200th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof says campus accessibility remains &#8216;deplorable&#8217;, pitches campaign to change that by 200th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Mario2-1280x853.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Mario2-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Mario2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Mario2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Mario2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Mario2-1320x880.jpg 1320w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Mario Levesque, head of Politics and International Relations at Mount Allison University. Image: policychange.ca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Mount Allison professor is calling out a lack of progress in terms of physical accessibility on university campuses, and pitching a target for his own campus to fix the problem by the time it hits its 200th anniversary in 2039.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Mario Levesque teaches politics at Mount Allison, and also does research on disability issues. About 10 years ago he started Mount A\u2019s first course focussed on disability, and a year and a half ago he got trained as an accessibility auditor through the Rick Hansen Foundation. He says that Mount Allison has a lot of work to do making the campus physically accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Levesque points to his own building on campus, the Avard Dixon, which has an accessible washroom on the fourth floor, but no elevator. \u201cFour storeys, so that makes it challenging,\u201d he says. And this past fall, Levesque got some first hand experience with that challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was on crutches for the bulk of last fall, and my office is on the third floor, and no elevator,\u201d says Levesque. Though the university offered to find him a space to work elsewhere, Levesque says he needed access to his office and everything in it. That meant climbing the stair several times a day with his crutches, which Levesque says is a safety and liability issue. Some days if he wasn\u2019t up for the climb, the professor moved up and down the stairs in a seated position. \u201cThat&#8217;s the state of accessibility in some of our universities in Canada, in 2024,\u201d says Levesque in frustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The issues extend beyond his own building, says Levesque, recalling a student during the April exam period who was unable to get into the newly renovated McCormack Gymnasium, because the entrances to the Athletic Centre have no ramps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"911\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_3801.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_3801.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_3801-768x547.jpeg 768w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Mount Allison Athletic Centre remains physically inaccessible to some people. Photo: Erica Butler, May 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe had torn her ACL and had surgery on it,\u201d recalls Levesque. \u201cShe notified me basically the morning of that she couldn&#8217;t get in the gym.\u201d With no time for accommodations through the university\u2019s Meighen Centre, Levesque helped the student get in through a back door, where there were fewer steps. He calls the situation \u201cdeplorable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Levesque says that Mount Allison is actually losing out on students due to physical accessibility challenges, with a handful of students effectively turned away each year. \u201cThose students end up at Carlton and SMU, which are much more accessible than our campus,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up until 2019, Mount Allison was tracking its progress in campus accessibility under its <a href=\"https:\/\/mta.ca\/about\/leadership-and-governance\/policies-and-procedures\/policy-7610-accessible-facilities-policy\">Accessible Facilities Policy<\/a>. The last update to that list in September 2019 notes that planning work for an Avard-Dixon elevator and washroom upgrade is scheduled as part of a \u201c3 to 5 year plan\u201d for alteration and renovation projects. The list also included conceptual plans for the renovation of the Athletic Centre to make it fully accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kris Kierstead, Mount Allison\u2019s director of facilities management, says in an emailed statement that the lists attached to the Accessible Facilities Policy are \u201cdue for an update,\u201d and that will happen sometime this year.  Kierstead said all major renovations on campus include accessibility upgrades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kierstead also said that a washroom upgrade is in the works for the Avard Dixon building this summer, though he did not mention plans to introduce an elevator.  As for its Athletic Centre, the school has \u201crecently started an investigation into the addition of a ramp and some other accessibility upgrade additions for the gymnasium level of the Athletic Centre,&#8221; writes Kierstead. &#8220;We hope to implement this in the short-term while we work on a longer-term plan to make the Athletic Centre fully accessible and barrier free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though Levesque says he feels there is not \u201cmuch buy-in from senior administration\u201d on accessibility issues at the school, he does give the university credit for the progress they\u2019ve made since 2012, in particular on sidewalks around campus and steps coming in and out of some campus buildings. He also acknowledges the challenges, with Mount Allison\u2019s location on a hill, and the age of many of the buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those are challenges he thinks the university can overcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMount A\u2019s been voted 24 times out of the past 33 years as the number one undergraduate university in Canada,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd yet we&#8217;re not accessible\u2026 We\u2019re only accessible for able-bodied kids. So from that perspective, I think that we can do better, I think we can rise to the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/education.macleans.ca\/rankings\/\">Maclean\u2019s rankings of Canadian universities<\/a>, Levesque has been working on convincing the magazine\u2019s editors to include accessibility in their rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve been in touch with them the past three years, working with them, trying to figure out how would Maclean&#8217;s include an accessibility measure for each publicly funded university in Canada as part of their rankings\u2026 They rank things on terms of student scholarships, they rank things on class size. There should be something there for physical accessibility of the campus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Levesque also thinks that provincial governments could incentivize more rapid conversions to accessible campuses by including bonuses for meeting accessibility standards in funding formulas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s also interested in seeing fundraising initiatives from the university itself, and is pitching a major target to coincide with the school\u2019s next big anniversary in 15 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMount Allison is going to celebrate its 200th anniversary as a university in 2039. How about we have an \u2018Accessible Mount A\u2019 fundraising campaign for 2039?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Levesque believes alumni would back the conversion of the school\u2019s remaining buildings to open them up to all. \u201cWho wouldn&#8217;t donate to making the campus accessible?\u201d he asks. \u201cI\u2019d be incredibly shocked that someone would not want to make sure that all students can go and get a top notch education.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mount Allison professor is calling out a lack of progress in terms of physical accessibility on university campuses, and pitching a target for his own campus to fix the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[472,492,482,558],"tags":[1442,792,466],"class_list":["post-43088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-daily-news","category-front-page","category-weekly","tag-accessibility","tag-mario-levesque","tag-mount-allison"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prof says campus accessibility remains &#039;deplorable&#039;, pitches campaign to change that by 200th anniversary &#187; 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