New Podcast, Finding Space: Where Students with Disabilities Thrive
This brand new podcast from UC Berkeley’s Research, Teaching, & Learning uplifts UC Berkeley students, educators, and staff from the disability community tell their stories and call the campus community in on acts of advocacy and disability justice. The first episode of Season 1, “Inclusive Excellence and the UC Berkeley Disabled Students Program with Carmen […]
UGIS 110: Intro to Disability Studies: Online and in-person Summer Session D!
UGIS 110: Introduction to Disability Studies, Session D (6 weeks, July 7 – August 15) Taught by Prof. Emily Nusbaum Fully online (LEC 001) and In-Person (002) sections now available. Students can choose one or the other. Tuesday-Thursday, 1-3:30 pmIn-person location: Social Sciences Building 56 Class #: 14174Units: 3 Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences breadth requirement Satisfies a Disability […]
Haskell Wong family recognizes UC Berkeley’s rich history in the disability rights movement with new endowment
UC Berkeley has a new endowment for its disability studies program thanks to a family of alums. The Haskell Wong Endowment for Disability Studies will be seeded with $900,000 to expand instruction and research. The endowment will ultimately provide tens of thousands of dollars for the program every year, inspiring future generations to engage in […]
Can an aquifer be injured? Scholar brings a disability lens to ecological repair
In her new book Disabled Ecologies, UC Berkeley professor Sunaura Taylor returns to a Tucson Superfund site to document how residents organized one of the earliest and most successful environmental justice movements in the country.
At 20, Berkeley’s Disability Studies shines with renewed energy
“This camp changed the world”: New exhibit tracks the rise of the disability rights movement and its ties to UC Berkeley
From article by Dan Vaccaro, UC Berkeley Library, 9/13/23 A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution Where: Doe Library’s Bernice Layne Brown Gallery and online When: Sept. 13, through February 2024, with exceptions; the gallery is open the same hours as Doe Library. Check the hours before you go. Cost: Free Related event: Film screening and conversation with Crip Camp directors, Sept. […]
President Biden Announces Key Appointments to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
A Kuwaiti Professor Makes Disability Awareness Part of Her Teaching
For a ‘safe return’ to university campuses, listen to students most affected by the pandemic
