Los Angeles Times

UCLA has a new disability studies major — the first of its kind at any public university in California

UCLA junior Vivek Chotai doesn’t plan to pursue his school’s new disability studies major — the first of its kind at any public university in the state — or even take classes in it. Yet for the ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

ILR Uses Grant for Disability Studies

The Employment Disability Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations will be exploring 13 research projects and 13 outreach projects with a $4 million grant from the National Institute ...
WDBJ

Roanoke College to offer new Disability Studies major and minor

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - After 182 years since its opening, students at Roanoke College will have the opportunity to pursue a degree in Disability Studies. Professors and students at Roanoke College have ...
The Hoya

Disability Studies Program Launches Major

Beginning in the fall semester, students in the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences will have the option to declare a major in disability studies. The major will build on the program’s ...
NorthJersey.com

Rutgers launches disability studies minor to explore world of oft-ignored community

This fall, Rutgers University–New Brunswick will introduce a new minor in disability studies. With one in four adults in the U.S. living with a disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...
Daily Sundial

CSUN launches disability studies minor with a keynote address by Lydia X.Z. Brown

CSUN’s College of Humanities celebrated the launch of its new Disability Studies minor by hosting attorney, disability rights activist, and Autistic People of Color Fund founder Xinzhen Zh?ngsun ...
HyperallergicOpinion

Accessibility Should Be at the Center of Museum Education

Art history departments often fail to embed disability studies into their curricula when engaging with art, politics, and ...
Kaleido Scope

Hutchinson becomes first graduate of UAB’s Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Science undergraduate program

While Hutchinson explored different academic paths in the first semester of her junior year, her advisor recommended the new major, though she did not realize at the time how significant her decision ...

First for CSUSB: Neurodiversity and Disability Studies Mini-Symposium Uplifts Disabled Voices

The first-of-its-kind Neurodiversity and Disability Studies Mini-Symposium comes to California State University, San Bernardino SAN BERNARDINO, CA, UNITED STATES, January 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — ...
Inside Higher EdOpinion

The Hidden Costs That Keep Disabled Students From College

With new loan limits on the horizon, colleges can take steps to make the financial aid system more just for students with ...
Yahoo

UCLA has a new disability studies major — the first of its kind at any public university in California

4:31 p.m. Nov. 28, 2023: A previous version of this story misstated the department where CSUN’s disability minor is housed. It is an interdisciplinary minor in the College of Humanities. UCLA junior ...