EDUCATION
Ensuring Higher Education for ALL
Ensuring Higher Education for ALL
A multi-tiered, grant-funded demonstration project to weave disability studies—the history, culture, and experiences of people with disabilities—into the fabric of Temple University.
In the classroom...
Twenty sections of Temple University's required world civilization course for all new students (Mosaic) will be models for the incorporation of disability studies content and Universal Design for Learning principles. Disability Studies faculty affiliated with the Institute will provide guest lecturers in these sections, demonstrating the latent disability content in the course's texts. For example, Professor David Mitchell will discuss Hannah Arendt's Totalitarianism and show the Brace Yourselves Productions Film, A World Without Bodies (dir. S. Snyder), to discuss the systematic killing of 300,000 people with disabilities in psychiatric institutions during the Holocaust.
Poster describing goals of Higher Education Opportunities for All program:
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The Mosaic faculty for these sections will be trained in the principles of Universal Design for Learning - that best practices in teaching makes the classroom a more productive place for all students, including students with disabilities. Removing barriers to learning - architectural, technological, or pedagogical - removes the need for accommodations.
In the office...
Temple University's new employee orientation program will be revised to make it more accessible, and its content will be updated to show disability not as a legal issue to be managed, but as an integral part of the university's mission of diversity.
Across the nation...
The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University will host a conference in June 2010, where universities from across the country will meet to present their projects to integrate people with disabilities into higher education, with the goal of replicating the most successful strategies.
Funded by U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education.
