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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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The Space Assignments and Capital Improvements Committee, or SACI, is forming a subcommittee to analyze a proposal for creating a disability cultural center on campus and identifying a space for the center.
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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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UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students’ Program, or DSP, serves 6 percent of the entire student population, yet there remains a general lack of awareness surrounding the challenges and barriers to living with disabilities on this campus.
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First established in an office behind Top Dog on Durant Avenue in 1970, the Disabled Students’ Program, or DSP, has since expanded to serve about 1,700 students at UC Berkeley and is working to improve resource accessibility for students.
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Before beginning her first year at UC Berkeley, campus freshman Sonali Loomba had already procured academic accommodations, including extended test time and reduced course load, from the campus Disabled Students’ Program.
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UC Berkeley is committed to providing a broad array of services to the more than 1800 students who are part of the Disabled Students’ Program, or DSP.
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For hundreds of campus graduate and undergraduate students, preparing for the coming semester also means finding accommodations for disabilities.
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Michael Fuss, a campus alumnus and activist, died July 10 from cancer. Fuss was 72.
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