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 ...

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 ...

1 in 5. This is the proportion of Americans that have a disability according to the US Census. Disability is one of the largest marginalized groups in the United States. Yet, instead of investing in ...

Those interested in learning more about or pursuing a career in disability services will be able to major or minor in disability studies at ASU starting in the fall 2019 semester. Majia Nadesan, an ...

You know there is something wrong when 100 of the major film critics in the United States say that Clint Eastwood's film Million Dollar Baby is a great work and every disability scholar and activist ...

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 ...

Dickinson has received a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to add to its groundbreaking work in literary disability studies, and phase II, “Building a Health Humanities Program,” ...

Great College Deals has ranked Miami University’s disability studies program No. 9 in the nation. Miami offers a minor in disability studies. Miami made the top 20 list, compiled from a pool of 60 ...

Students with disabilities often find barriers in their daily lives, whether it is physically attending class or being able to submit assignments on time. This can partly be explained by a phenomenon ...

The future of Stanford’s introductory course on disability studies — offered for the first time last fall — remains uncertain, following the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education’s (VPUE) ...

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 ...

At a gathering for scholars interested in the intersection of health, humanities and disabilities this weekend, a professor who uses a wheelchair was asked to ring a bell to gain access to the meeting ...