Disabled Students Program

ASUC senators presented new resolutions and proposals and swore in two officials at their weekly meeting on Wednesday.

Despite student concerns that course capture is to be phased out by certain campus departments, campus has stated that there are no such plans to terminate the service.

Although accommodations can make academic life much easier for disabled students, the process of receiving them often does not. 

I initially arrived at UC Berkeley sure of myself with goals and knowing what I wanted to do in the future. Now as I navigate my final year here, I am unsure of what I want. In some ways, you could say my experiences have broken me — and there is some truth to that. However, at some point, I realized I needed to let go of my fear of failing.

UC Berkeley has seen an increase in Latine student enrollment and representation in several academic disciplines following the establishment of initiatives to improve diversity and inclusion.

As UC Berkeley continues to see an increase in students enrolled in the Disabled Students’ Program, DSP must change and provide genuine support for the ever-growing population of disabled UC Berkeley students it claims to serve but currently fails to adequately.

Karen Nielson resigned from her position as director of UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students' Program, or DSP, Wednesday, and will be moving to work at UC Santa Cruz as director of its Disability Resource Center. 

In order to improve access to digital resources, campus recently launched a new committee made of students, staff and faculty which will focus on increasing digital accessibility for its 65,000-person community.

ASUC officials and campus students made announcements about end-of-year events during Wednesday’s regular ASUC Senate meeting. 

Campus sophomore Osvaldo Barba is running independently for ASUC Senate on a platform centered on basic needs and student engagement with politics.