Full Description
The commitment to accessibility serves as a catalyst for developing and implementing practices that prevent barriers and can better allow for inclusive participation with the world around us. Unfortunately, the importance of accessibility does not always equate with commitment and compliance. While there has been a slow-moving effort to increase accessibility, the global pandemic and several key social justice movements have spotlighted inaccessible content and systems.
The New Accessibility in Higher Education guides the reader through the various areas of higher education, detailing how barriers to access were identified and how accessibility was reimagined and improved through the perspectives of faculty, administrators, and students. The book considers the multidimensionality of accessibility and how postsecondary scholars and practitioners must reconsider how accessibility in postsecondary education is understood and achieved. It argues that higher education can no longer ignore issues of accessibility nor revert to previous, antiquated, and discriminatory policies that do not support the success of disabled students. The book not only spotlights what occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and other recent key events but, instead, but also provides a roadmap for the continued integration of more accessible strategies within modern higher education.
Contents
Foreword
Nancy J. Evans
Preface
Katherine C. Aquino & Adam R. Lalor
Section I: Accessibility in Higher Education - Then, Now, In the Future
Chapter 1
National Events and Social Movements: Challenges and Opportunities for Disability Access, Inclusion, and Justice in Higher Education
Wendy Harbour, Joseph Madaus & Shariese Katrell-Abdullah
Chapter 2
The Current Status of Accessibility in American Higher Education
Stephanie Cawthon, Ryan Mata, Desiree Lama & Lily Alvarez
Chapter 3
The Potential of Universal Design to Promote Accessibility and Inclusion for Disabled Students
Sheryl Burgstahler
Section II: Shifting Accessibility Infrastructure in Postsecondary Education
Chapter 4
Increased Recognition of Disability Resources Offices
Kirsten Behling, Kaela Parks & Charnessa Warren
Chapter 5
Greater Visibility and New Disclosures of Disabled Students
Katherine C. Aquino & Emily Helft
Chapter 6
Enrolling and Retaining Disabled Students
Kurt F. Geisinger & Sarah Hammami
Section III: Conceptual Models Supportive of Disabled Students
Chapter 7
The Intersectionality of Accessibility
Ryan Miller, Rachel Friedensen, Annemarie Vaccaro & Ezekiel Kimball
Chapter 8
Addressing Accessibility Through a Social Justice Lens
Edlyn Peña
Chapter 9
Transforming Institutions of Higher Education Into Equity-Centered Learning Organizations to Promote the Whole Selves of Disabled Students
Chang-kyu Kwon & Emily Tarconish
Chapter 10
Creating Disability-inclusive Campuses: Development and Implications of a Revised Interactionist Model of Disability
Ellen Broido
Chapter 11
Sense of Belonging Within an Accessible Environment
Annemarie Vaccaro, Adam Moore, Barbara M. Newman, Phil Newman & Ezekiel Kimball
Section IV: Emerging Practices Resulting from Turning Points
Chapter 12
Rethinking Administrative Functions with Greater Disability Awareness
Adam R. Lalor
Chapter 13
Supporting Disabled Learners Through the Variations Planning Tool and Universal Design: Enabling, Mitigating, and Disabling Instructional Practices
Erin M. Scanlon, Emily Tarconish, Allison Lombardi & Jacquelyn J. Chini
Chapter 14
Where Do We Go From Here?
Adam R. Lalor & Katherine C. Aquino
