Out of the nine total disability specialist positions the Center for Accessible Education typically maintains, only three were filled at the start of the 2023-2024 academic year.
UC Riverside plans to implement new measures this fall that reflect major changes in how it approaches campus safety. They include a tiered-approach in which the UC Riverside Police Department will add a new category of non-sworn, unarmed safety personnel to respond to calls. Another addition will be behavioral health specialists trained to deescalate situations. UCR is on track to be among the first UC campuses to implement such changes.
UC Berkeley underwent a multi-hour campus lockdown on Thursday April 21. During the lockdown, police searched for a suspect that they claimed made serious and credible threats of violence toward the Berkeley community. The university implemented the shelter-in-place order around 10 a.m. which lasted several hours. UCPD was able to locate the person in question […]
The University of Louisville's faculty and staff bring more than their professional skillsets to campus every day. They embrace and embody the passion, dynamism and innovation characteristic of a quality higher education experience. On April 18, Interim President Lori Stewart Gonzalez and Interim Provost Gerry Bradley conferred the 2022 Presidential Excellence Awards during the Celebration of Faculty and Staff. The awards recognize the employees whose personal and professional commitments to student success impact the entire university community. Here are this year's winners. Cardinal Principles Champions The Cardinal Principles Champions award honors faculty and staff who demonstrate one of the Cardinal Principles at the highest level of impact. • Kathy Meyer, Community of Care • Asma Addarrat-Edwards, Accountability • Leondra Gully, Respect • Nakia Strickland, Diversity and Inclusion • Avery Kolers, Integrity and Transparency • Mani Vangalur, Noble Purpose • C
Although we have the Students with Disabilities Advocacy Group primarily at the Statesboro campus, Mateo Molinari, a sophomore at Georgia Southern, decided that this wasn’t enough to reach all the needs for disabled students and decided to start the club DIAS: Disabled Identities and Support. Molinari first got the idea during training for Deep Dive.