ADA Campus Mentors
Posted May 1, 2026
CTL is happy to announce that six faculty members, two from each campus, have been
chosen to serve as SUNY Title II EIT ADA mentors.
Each mentor will receive a stipend to help the SUNY Suffolk community increase capacity
in the creation and remediation of materials that comply with the updated regulations
for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).The stipends are funded through the SUNY Electronic & Information Technology (EIT) Accessibility grant.
The Department of Justice updates bring significant implications for teaching faculty
in higher education, affecting how courses and instructional materials are designed
and/or selected. Currently, all digital content must be accessible by April 2027.
To help support faculty and staff meet this requirement, the six ADA mentors have
taken the Deque University accessibility training, as well as two training sessions hosted by CTL. The mentors
agree to serve as a resource and to teach their campus colleagues how to remediate
or create accessible documents from June 2026 to June 2027. During that time, each
mentor will also present two workshops on ADA compliance. Faculty and staff are encouraged
to reach out to them directly for assistance.
The ADA mentors are:
Maria Alzugaray, Assistant Academic Chair/Professor, Mathematics, Grant campus
Kerry Carlson, Librarian/Associate Professor, Grant campus
Kristin Conway, Assistant Professor, Business Administration and Accounting, Eastern campus
Courtney Desmond, Specialist I, Academic Skills Center, Eastern campus
Vera Hu, Professor, Mathematics, Ammerman campus
Kim Jones, Associate Professor, Biology, Ammerman campus
