Professional Development for Accessible Courses and Career-Building Using Student-Faculty Partnerships

With an increase in disabled students in physics, physics classes need to be more inclusive to students with a variety of disabilities, and disabled students need to be supported in their unique needs in finding careers with their physics degrees. Designed to meet both these needs, Courses and Careers (C2C) is a week-long professional development workshop that brings together faculty and disabled students to learn from each other. Faculty will focus on learning accessible classroom practices, with disabled students sharing their expertise on course accommodations and accessibility. In turn, disabled students will learn about career preparation, including how to navigate their needs and accommodations, with faculty guiding them. This study analyzes post-workshop interviews from attending faculty and students using thematic coding and revealed causal mapping. We will share preliminary analysis looking at participants' experiences in the C2C workshops and the successes and challenges of encouraging student-faculty partnerships.