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Disabled UC students are speaking up for improved inclusion in the UC system in honor of the 30th anniversary of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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The webinar “Disability and the Media” was part of the weeklong celebrations leading up to July 26 — the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Berkeley City Council renewed the current state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic in a nearly 10-hour-long series of meetings Tuesday.
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Access to accommodations is the sole reason I am able to remain in school while severely depressed. My accommodations don’t give me a leg up over my peers; they put us on an even playing ground.
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Wheeling to my very first meeting of the Student Coalition for Disability Rights, I was ecstatic to meet other disabled students and gather in a place I could eventually call home. UC Berkeley’s reputation of being the birthplace of the Disability Rights Movement was not lost on me, and I
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Beginning Dec. 31, the elevator in Sproul Hall will be closed due to maintenance, an undertaking that will last up to three months and will particularly impact campus members with disabilities.
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Members of the UC Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate discussed new frameworks to promote accessibility of campus resources, the role of standardized testing in admissions processes and students’ mental health at its meeting Monday.
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A poster created in 1951 recognizing what we know today as National Disability Employment Awareness Month read, “America needs ALL of us.” Now, the tagline for workforce inclusion for the 2018 National Disability Employment Awareness Month is “America’s Workforce: Empowering All.” For 73 years and counting, the United States has
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Updated 10/30/19: Some of the language in this article has been updated. The Disabled Students’ Program, or DSP, at UC Berkeley was one of the first disability services programs in higher education in the United States. It was founded by students with disabilities in 1970 after they organized to advocate
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The reason so many environmentalists are against straws is because they’re actually tiny menaces; making up 7 percent of the plastics thrown away globally, they’re something many of us could easily live without.
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