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Summary:

Create campuses inclusive and supportive of disabled students, staff, and faculty Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach examines how disability is conceptualized in higher education and ways in which students, faculty, and staff with disabilities are viewed and served on college campuses. Drawing on multiple theoretical frameworks, research, and experience creating inclusive campuses, this text offers a new framework for understanding disability using a social justice lens. Many institutions focus solely on legal access and accommodation, enabling a system of exclusion and oppression. However, using principles of universal design, social justice, and other inclusive practices, campus environments can be transformed into more inclusive and equitable settings for all constituents. The authors consider the experiences of students, faculty, and staff with disabilities and offer strategies for addressing ableism within a variety of settings, including classrooms, residence halls, admissions and orientation, student organizations, career development, and counseling. They also expand traditional student affairs understandings of disability issues by including chapters on technology, law, theory, and disability services. Using social justice principles, the discussion spans the entire college experience of individuals with disabilities, and avoids any single-issue focus such as physical accessibility or classroom accommodations. The book will help readers: Consider issues in addition to access and accommodation Use principles of universal design to benefit students and employees in academic, cocurricular, and employment settings Understand how disability interacts with multiple aspects of identity and experience. Despite their best intentions, college personnel frequently approach disability from the singular perspective of access to the exclusion of other important issues. This book provides strategies for addressing ableism in the assumptions, policies and practices, organizational structures, attitudes, and physical structures of higher education.

Table of Contents:

• A history of disability in higher education
• Disability models
• Disability, law, and education in the United States
• Dimensions of impairment and disability
• Disability identity development and multiple aspects of identity
• Student populations
• Faculty and staff with disabilities
• The campus environment
• The campus climate
• Universal design
• Assistive and learning technology
• Classroom instructional interventions
• Disability resource offices
• Student affairs
• Transitions and student affairs.

Author/Creator:

Evans, Nancy J., 1947- , author

Contributors:

Broido, Ellen M., 1965- , author

Brown, Kirsten R. , author

Wilke, Autumn K. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Disability in higher education: a social justice approach [by Evans, N.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Disability in higher education [by Evans, N.J.] (Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2017 — ISBN 9781118018224; LCCN 2016044997; OCLC Number 922909720)

Subjects:

People with disabilities — Education (Higher) — United States

College students with disabilities — United States

People with disabilities — Education (Higher)

People with disabilities

College students with disabilities

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 515 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LC4813 .E83 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781118415689 (electronic bk.)
111841568X (electronic bk.)
9781118018224 (cloth) [Invalid]
1118018222 (cloth) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

973222717