UCLA junior Vivek Chotai doesn’t plan to pursue his school’s new disability studies major — the first of its kind at any public university in the state — or even take classes in it. Yet for the ...

Disability studies is about more than rejecting the stigmatizing assumptions held by many in society, write Sharon L. Snyder, an assistant professor in the department of disability and human ...

Beginning in the fall semester, students in the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences will have the option to declare a major in disability studies. The major will build on the program’s ...

CSUN’s College of Humanities celebrated the launch of its new Disability Studies minor by hosting attorney, disability rights activist, and Autistic People of Color Fund founder Xinzhen Zh?ngsun ...

This fall, Rutgers University–New Brunswick will introduce a new minor in disability studies. With one in four adults in the U.S. living with a disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

The purpose of this community is to build cross-discipline alliances and collaboration that support the expansion and growth of the field of Disability Studies at Miami University. The main focus of ...

In the fall of 2023, the UAB School of Health Professions launched an undergraduate program in Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Science. This year, the program unveiled a minor option to the ...

As part of the “Toward an Anti-Ableist Academy” conference hosted by the University of Michigan’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion this month, a panel of five faculty members from the UM ...

On Oct. 13, disability studies took center stage in Red Square at Ramping Up for Access, an event hosted by the Disability Cultural Initiative. Amy Kenny, inaugural director of the initiative, remarks ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - After 182 years since its opening, students at Roanoke College will have the opportunity to pursue a degree in Disability Studies. Professors and students at Roanoke College have ...

O n a morning in February, Therí A. Pickens, an English professor and chair of the Africana program at Bates College, logged onto her email and saw a Google alert that said her work would be cited in ...