Biography

Rebecca Mushtare is the associate dean of Graduate Studies and a professor of interaction design at SUNY Oswego. With John Kane, she co-hosts the Tea for Teaching podcast which she helped co-found when she was the associate director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. 

Rebecca’s primary research areas are inclusive design, design for older adults, and digital accessibility. She’s committed to designing equitable and transparent experiences in and out of the classroom. At SUNY Oswego she co-founded the Workgroup on Accessibility Practices in 2016  which has been responsible for many accessibility initiatives on campus including the Faculty Accessibility Fellows program that launched in 2019. She’s expanded her work on accessibility within SUNY by serving on the SUNY Empowering Students with Disabilities Task Force, offering workshops and training through the SUNY Center for Professional Development, and will serve, in 2025, as the facilitator for the inaugural group of Accessibility Advocates & Allies Faculty Fellows. Additionally, Rebecca has worked to spread these practices within civic engagement spaces including the local Vote Oswego initiative and the national civic engagement coalition, Students Learn Students Vote.  

She’s co-authored research articles related to accessibility in the Journal for Postsecondary Education and Disability, Journal of Communication in Healthcare, and the eJournal of Public Affairs. She co-authored, with Ciprian Ceobanu, "Designing Content for Learners with Disabilities" in the  The Sage Handbook of Higher Education Instructional Design (forthcoming). You can also find her work in community engagement projects like the Recollection Project.

Mushtare was awarded the President’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service at SUNY Oswego in 2022.