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The Access and Equity for Students with Disabilities (SWD) in STEM Higher Education
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Item Summary
Title: | The Access and Equity for Students with Disabilities (SWD) in STEM Higher Education |
Authors: | Koshy-Chenthittayil, Sherli Farfan Dsouza, Nikeetha |
Author Affiliation: | Koshy-Chenthittayil, Sherli: University of Connecticut Health, Center for Quantitative Medicine Farfan Dsouza, Nikeetha: Clemson University, Department of Teaching and Learning |
Keywords: | DisCrit STEM Higher Education |
Date Issued: | 2019 |
Publisher: | Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Type: | Best Practices Focus |
Abstract: | A diverse student body is one that includes students with disabilities (SWDs). A lack of institutional support often marginalizes SWDs from actively participating in the STEM community thus removing a large talent pool from the STEM field. Currently there are several reactive higher education policies that begin to support SWD, and therefore not effective in fully supporting SWD. Mostly accommodations are provided to SWD on request. These accommodations are limited modifications that often do not prioritize the student. By making higher education more proactive and empathetic to SWD, we can truly make the student body diverse. |
Pages/Duration: | 18 pages |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/69320 |
Rights: | Creative Commons License: CC-BY |
Rights Holder: | Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
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PacRim 2019 Conference Proceedings |
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