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 ...

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 ...

The UA is working to develop a new undergraduate major in disability studies within the next few years, which would make it one of 35 universities that offer some type of disability studies program.

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 ...

Thanks in part to the overwhelming popularity of UCLA’s 16-year-old disability studies minor, the campus has launched a new disability studies interdepartmental major — the first such major at any ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leroy Moore, a disabled scholar studying at UCLA, is a writer, poet and community activist who for years has been speaking out for ...

Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies, in partnership with The Center for Child and Human Development, will initiate a new interdisciplinary program on Disability Studies. “Consistent ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions recently launched a new undergraduate degree in disability studies and rehabilitation science. The new program is already accepting ...

In recent years, there has been a noticeable decline in the number of faculty to train aspiring special education teachers and other leaders in the field of special education. Project SELF (Special ...

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 ...

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 ...