Disability

Students with disabilities in higher education are less likely to graduate and land full-time employment after college, compared to their peers. A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office highlights solutions colleges can take to better aid these learners.

Community colleges are increasing the number and scale of programs designed for these students and are becoming the training pipelines that connect them to employers.

Scott McLemee reviews Uncharted: How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias.

Discrimination against disabled faculty members is often dismissed because it’s linked to the academy’s deeply entrenched values around productivity, Sandy Sufian writes.

ChatGPT has tremendous potential as an assistive technology for faculty and students with ADHD, Maggie Melo writes.

The rush to impose new barriers to prevent cheating with AI could disproportionately hurt students with disabilities, Martin Stanberry, Jack Bernard and Joseph Storch write.

The estate of a late Temple University alumna who had cerebral palsy gave the institution nearly $11 million to fund scholarships for students with disabilities.

In scrapping remote options for conferences, academia has set out on a dangerous trajectory, Shira Lurie and Nicole Schroeder write.