ADA Coordinator’s Office

27th Annual Multiple Perspective Conference

Paths to Access 

APRIL 12th – 13th  2027 

The Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio 

   

Multiple Perspective’s celebrates and explores the many paths to access; from their origins to how they shape the individual and our community.   The experience of disability is inherent to the human condition and serves as a catalyst for design, technological innovation, and engaged citizenship.   

 

Expanding on Eleanor Roosevelt’s question: 

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”    

Presentation of “In your hands: a guide for community action” by Eleanor Roosevelt to the UN Commission on Human Rights, 3/27/1958 

 

This year’s them asks presenters to help us map access: 

  • Exploring its origins in “small places” the experience of home, neighborhood, school, & work;  
  • Navigating the current lay of the land; or 
  • Sharing their guidebooks for the future. 

 

Preference will be given to proposals that explore practices, policies and structures that facilitate access, serve as a catalyst for collaborations; or connect individuals to local, national or international communities. 

  

To be on the mailing list for the conference, send e-mail to ADA-OSU@osu.edu 

 

Please Note:  The full conference fees will be waived, and lunch provided for onsite for presenters. Presenters are responsible for their own travel and lodging. 

 

Supported by the generosity of Margaret Stanton and the Ethel Louise Armstrong Endowment Fund and the Civil Rights Compliance Office at the Ohio State University.  Since 2000, the university’s ADA Coordinator has presented a series of workshops and public events supporting the university’s mission as a modern land grant university; serving the wider community by providing a forum for understanding of disability as integral to human experience and creating opportunities s through collaboration with and among our partners in education, business, non-profits, and government.