Disability as Diversity

Recommendation 1

Incorporate disability more formally and expressly into institutional diversity equity and inclusion goals, strategic plans, institutional frameworks and communications. Incorporate intersectional experiences of disability when deliberating equity initiatives. Develop a clear institutional understanding of and framework for the range of what disability is (including, for example, physical, cognitive, and non-apparent) and how we understand the confrontation of ableism as attached to our institutional mission. As part of this, comprehensive curriculum regarding disability justice will be developed and begin in Fall 2022.

Lead: Office of Institutional Diversity