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USM Institute Announces WhatsYourPurpose2021 Youth Transition Campaign Mon, 01/11/2021 - 13:00pm | By: Jerry Alliston The Institute for Disability Studies (IDS) Transition to Adulthood Programs at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) has unveiled a new 2021 campaign titled, #WhatsYourPurpose2021. Throughout the year, transition leaders, including youth/young adults with and without disabilities, their famil...

Representative image GUWAHATI: The government has come up with a proposal to set up a first if its kind central university of disability studies and rehabilitation sciences in Assam. The department of empowerment of persons with disabilities in the ministry of social justice and empowerment on Thursday, through a public notice, invited comments from the stakeholders by January 3 on the draft University of Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Sciences Bill, 2021, to set up the university. The ...

Zoeglossia has selected 13 disabled poets as fellows for their 2021 conference. The fellowship provides the poets with the opportunity to attend an annual retreat/conference and work with established writers who are also disabled. This year the event, hosted by New Mexico State University, will be held entirely online May 20-23 due to restrictions required by the Covid-19 pandemic. New Mexico State University English professor Connie Voisine is a co-founder of Zoegloss...

Welcome back to Mixtape, the TechCrunch podcast that looks at the human element that powers technology. For this episode we spoke with Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at NYU; Mara Mills, associate professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU and co-director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies; and Sara Hendren, professor at Olin College of Engineering and author of the recently published What Can a Body Do: How We Meet the Buil...

Last winter, I was invited to give a talk on satire by the International Politics Society at Aberystwyth University. I spoke mostly about my satirical online persona Titania McGrath, an identity-obsessed social justice activist who is always on the lookout for new ways to be offended. By and large, the students were polite, receptive and eager to be challenged.  However, the same could not be said for the academic staff, who had bizarrely refused to let the society publicise the event on the g...

The Federal Government introduced Bill C-7. This is a bill to amend the Criminal Code of Canada with regards t...

Last night, a professor at randolph-macon tweeted, looking forward to another quiet summer at randolph-macon in our sleepy town. that was a joke, because randolph-macon has probably be doing extra work as reporters across the country are trying to find out any information about the new member of the faculty, economics professor, david brat. but heres the thing, randolph-macon might want to think of renaming itself randolph-macon congressman, because whatever happens in this election -- that joke...

He serves as director of the honors program and teaches courses in disability studies in the sociology department. his latest book is on the richmond slave trade. now, youve got these two faculty members squaring off, polling in this race will be hard to come by, and we all know how unreliable it was the first time around. so the "all in" elections team came up with its own formula. its called ratemyprofessors.com. luckily, both men are recommended on the size. one student raves about trammel, h...