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A Welcoming Campus is Accessible to All

A Welcoming Campus is Accessible to All. Marla Herron, Kathy Rose-Mockry, & Dot Nary. Presentation Objectives. Understand the prevalence of those with disabilities at KU and in American society

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A Welcoming Campus is Accessible to All

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  1. A Welcoming Campus is Accessible to All Marla Herron, Kathy Rose-Mockry, & Dot Nary

  2. Presentation Objectives • Understand the prevalence of those with disabilities at KU and in American society • Identify 3 common types of barriers that face people with disabilities – architectural, attitudinal and communication - and recognize examples of each • Recognize the role of Student Success Staff in addressing these barriers

  3. Why Does This Matter to Student Success Professionals? • To ensure equal opportunity in fulfilling KU’s mission of education, research and service to Kansans • To benefit from the talent and potential of people with disabilities • To promote diversity on campus • To comply with state and federal regulations, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

  4. A New Resource: KU Disability Network • Goals: to facilitate communication about disability issues in the KU community, raise awareness, and provide support • http://www.registrar.ku.edu/kudisability network • disnet@ku.edu

  5. Students with Disabilities at KU--2006

  6. Disability Prevalence--National • Typically estimated that one person in five over the age of 5 has a disability (20%) • Numbers are increasing due to several phenomena: advances in medical technology, longer life spans, veterans surviving combat

  7. Disability Prevalence--Kansas • 14% uninstitutionalized people of age 5 and over have at least one disability (352,606 Kansans) • 12.1% of working-age adults have a disability Census Bureau Websitehttp://www.census.gov/hhes/www/disability/2005acs.html

  8. What Hinders Us from Achieving a Welcoming Climate? • 3 common types of barriers • Architectural • Attitudinal • Communication

  9. Barrier Removal • What is the problem? • What is the solution(s)? • Whose responsibility is it to implement the solution(s)?

  10. Being a good ally – What are some options? • Create a welcoming workplace climate by • Including people with disabilities in recruitment efforts and hiring practices • Creating a barrier-free, inclusive workplace • Facilitating discussion about diversity awareness/promotion efforts

  11. Being a good ally – What are some options? (cont.) • Be aware of campus policies related to disability, inclusion • Make programs and meetings accessible (e.g., meeting space, program materials, ability to participate)

  12. Being a good ally – What are some options? (cont.) • Be aware of disability issues across the lifespan– empower and support • Understand the power of language • Help others to make connections and locate resources—serve as a “bridge”

  13. KU Campus Resources • Academic Achievement and Access Center • Human Resources/Equal Opportunity • AbleHawks • Special Education Department • KU Professionals for Disability • Architectural Barriers Committee • Research and Training Center on Independent Living, Lifespan Institute

  14. “Congress [has] acknowledged that society's accumulated mythsand fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.” • Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.  480 U.S. 284

  15. “Disability used to signal the end of active life. Now it is a common characteristic of a normal lifespan. Sooner or later it will occur in the lives of most people, surely in the life of every family.” Justin Dart, 1995

  16. “We can go nowhere until you can go everywhere.” • Gloria Steinem, addressing a group of disability activists

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