Rethinking the College Environment: Do Colleges Have a Responsibility to Their Students Beyond College Life?

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Author(s): Washieka Torres (Bowling Green State University, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 17
Source title: Disability and Equity in Higher Education Accessibility
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Henry C. Alphin, Jr. (Drexel University, USA), Jennie Lavine (University of Hull, UK)and Roy Y. Chan (Indiana University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2665-0.ch003

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / Higher Education

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The premise of my work circles around the ways in which administrators have “breached” or moved beyond these roles in order to help the lives of people with disabilities both in and out of school. This work not only centers on students but the ways in which multiple areas of the campus exist and need to adjust in order to create more equitable job opportunities for people with disabilities. Much of this work is done keeping in mind the four environments of college campuses, proposed by Strange and Banning. Using this lens I look at how different kinds of colleges are organized and how resources can be integrated into these systems in order to create more accessible information and environments for those with disabilities. This work also includes several case studies from universities, large and small globally and locally, in order to see how they are creating and sustaining new and innovative programs that go beyond just the classroom.

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