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possibly be scrapped.
When Student Caucus learned of Osgoode’s
concern with the rate of failure under the ARP,
we thought students would see new technology in the classroom, and top-notch support
for professors who struggle with the recording
program and equipment. We were wrong.
The Associate Dean decided that the remedy
was to scrap the audio/video recording and
rely exclusively on the Dean’s Scribe program as a means to satisfy Osgoode’s legal
duty to accommodate. I can’t help but notice
the significant monetary and HR savings this
strategy accomplishes by
downloading the burden
to students through the
Dean’s Scribe program.
Further still, this
system doesn’t expand
who Osgoode will
permit to be accommodated. We should expect
more from our administration and more
for our educational
dollar.
Student Caucus was
faced with a tough
choice: to advocate
aggressively in the
short-term or in the
long-term. The majority of Caucus voted for
the short-term position:
save the audio/video recording today for those students who
have accommodation status under the
ARP because some successful recordings are
more valuable than none. In my opinion, the
short-term strategy came with a substantial
cost to the vast majority of students who still
don’t have access to their own course content
for their own educational purposes. I believe
that the better strategy would have been to
shift the conversation away from accommodation and towards recordings as academic
resources available for all, while the Dean’s
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