Working toward disability justice in higher education
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Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
My latest paper, Disability Without Documentation, is available on SSRN. It examines reasonable accommodations in the workplace, and how the interactive process requires medical documentation to prove disability. I argue against this practice. A thread. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
“At every step of the way, colleges turned what should be an exciting time for students into a nightmare for everyone with no end in sight”
I’d be lying if I said I weren’t very worried about what these universities are going to force us to do this spring cnn.com/2020/09/22/us/colleg…
Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
This is a political assault on scholarship and a dangerous denial of the role that expert knowledge plays in a democracy.
The Trump administration has instructed federal agencies to end racial sensitivity trainings that address topics like white privilege and critical race theory, calling them "divisive, anti-American propaganda." trib.al/Jr8e3RX
Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
#AcademicTwitter–As you build online classes provide accessible course materials or links to access tools. If you are teaching synchronous zooms, which has no auto-caption feature, direct folks to tools like webcaptioner.com/ for real-time captions and transcript downloads.
Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
Your future school is currently making life-or-death decisions that will affect students, faculty, staff, and local residents. Are you paying attention? tnvge.co/16bX3H3
Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
These student accounts of what’s going on health & safety-wise are so disturbing. Faculty at #Illinoistech seriously worked all summer to try to avert a situation like this, only to be overruled. I feel for all @illinoistech @IITComputing students stuck in this scary situation😰
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Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
I made a Twine story about the fall from the perspective of staff members. Please let me know if you are staff and would be willing to test-play it.
Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
today, the university is in the news because staff & students are angry at being forced to agree to a document that states we’re “voluntarily” accepting risk of infection by coming to campus, & that it’s on staff & students to keep themselves safe👀 chicagotribune.com/coronavir…
Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
The University will not share the number of cases in each cluster, Associate Vice Chancellor for University Communications Beth Keith told The Daily Tar Heel.
"Due to FERPA, we're not able to share specific numbers," Keith said.
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Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
yesterday a student-led organization had to step in because my university ran out of tests just one day after announcing all students and staff needed to get tested asap to begin the semester safely:
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Accessible Campus Action Alliance retweeted
Check out our latest blog post by @annalandre about the gaps in #college and university reopening plans for ensuring the civil rights and well being of students with #disabilities during the #COVID19 pandemic.
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