A recent gift from alumna Heather Fath (C’97) helps Georgetown University’s Disability Cultural Center meet the needs of disabled students, faculty, and staff, and celebrate the vibrancy, contributions, and diversity of disability culture.
Topics: Disabled students
Doctoral student seeks to reduce educational barriers for deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists
Megan Majocha (G’24), a biomedical graduate student who is deaf, aims to reduce barriers to scientific research careers for members of the deaf community.
Georgetown becomes the first Catholic, Jesuit university to launch a disability cultural center
This fall, Georgetown will open a new Disability Cultural Center, an on-campus hub providing resources, mentorship, community, and programming for disabled students, faculty, and staff, as well as allies and those interested in learning about disability.
‘More communication and less suspicion’: How faculty can better support neurodivergent students
Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, an expert on mental health and disability calls on faculty to establish clear lines of communication with students and seek institutional support.
Georgetown Magazine: ‘Toward a more accessible, inclusive Georgetown’
The Disability Cultural Initiative is the most recent among an expanding number of academic and student programs designed to promote disability access, awareness, and empowerment.
Career bootcamps prepare students with autism for the workforce
U.S. colleges and universities are creating programs that position students with autism for a successful job search.
College students with autism find academic, emotional support in specialized programs
Campus autism programs are offering individualized and group support to meet the academic, emotional, and social needs of U.S. college students on the spectrum.
Georgetown welcomes Amy Kenny as associate director of the Disability Cultural Initiative
Get to know Georgetown University’s inaugural associate director of the Disability Cultural Initiative and read about her work as an advocate, author, and scholar.
Surge in students seeking accommodations for mental health disorders
A growing number of college students are registering with disability services for psychological conditions, prompting new efforts to address students’ short- and long-term needs.
Building an endowment to support disability initiatives at Georgetown
A donation from Georgetown alumna Tiffany Yu has laid the groundwork for a new endowment to support disability-related initiatives on campus.
Making Georgetown communication more accessible, inclusive for all
The shift to an online learning environment last spring required an increase in virtual communication through websites, email, and social media—and intensified the university’s focus on promoting accessible materials.
Advocates ask: How will students with disabilities be supported once campuses reopen?
Some students with disabilities have found the transition to virtual learning environments during COVID-19 to be freeing and flexible, leading advocates to wonder which accommodations might endure well beyond the pandemic.