Welcome Dr. Marisela R. Chávez!

We are excited to welcome Dr. Marisela R. Chávez as the new Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE). She joins us from CSU Dominguez Hills, where she led the Faculty Development Center and served as Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies. A recipient of the CSUDH Lyle E. Gibson Distinguished Teacher Award, Dr. Chávez brings a strong commitment to equity-minded faculty development. Her recent book, Chicana Liberation: Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2024. Please join us in warmly welcoming her to the CPP community!

Beginning April 24, 2026, changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II regulations will significantly strengthen enforcement and therefore will affect all digital instructional materials at Cal Poly Pomona.

Accessiblity Workshops

Get a jump start in making your materials accessible by attending our accessibility workshops where you will learn best practices for making your course materials accessible. All workshops will be held from 12-12:45pm:

• Tue, Sept 2: Canvas Course Tune-Up with UDOIT & TidyUP
• Thu, Sept 4: Designing Accessible Presentations Using PowerPoint
• Tue, Sept 9: Creating Accessible Word Documents
• Thu, Sept 11: Demystifying PDF Accessibility

Accessibility Fix-It Fridays

Got course files that could use some accessibility help? Join CAFE for Fix-it Fridays, a drop-in support series that will run Fridays from 11am to 1pm, September through November. Bring your laptop, and your PDFs, Word Docs, PowerPoints, or anything else you need help with to make it more accessible.

Fix-It Fridays will be held from 11:00am - 1:00pm at specific locations depending on your department. Registrations preferred, drop-ins welcomed.

Cal Poly Pomona has updated its digital accessibility toolkit, replacing ALLY with two new Canvas tools: UDOIT (pronounced You Do It) for fixing accessibility issues in course content, and TidyUP for removing unused or duplicate files. Together, they make it easier than ever to create clean, accessible, and student-friendly courses.

Tel: (909) 869 - 3099

Get help from CAFE M-F 8am-5pm

Online: https://www.cpp.edu/cafe

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