Accessible Campus Action Alliance

Working toward disability justice in higher education

[Accessible Campus Action Alliance @accesscampus]

Beyond High-Risk: Statement on Disability and Campus Re-openings, Update for Fall 2021: https://t.co/a47TkB3Tv7

Please read, sign on, and share!

[Kat Macfarlane @KatAMacfarlane]

My latest paper, Disability Without Documentation, is available on SSRN. It examines reasonable accommodations in the workplace, and how the interactive process requires medical documentation to prove disability. I argue against this practice. A thread. https://t.co/qLvoMQbyco

[Accessible Campus Action Alliance @accesscampus]

Campus re-openings?

[American Association of University Professors @AAUP]

This is a political assault on scholarship and a dangerous denial of the role that expert knowledge plays in a democracy.

[Samuel Yates @SamuelYates]

#AcademicTwitter–As you build online classes provide accessible course materials or links to access tools. If you are teaching synchronous zooms, which has no auto-caption feature, direct folks to tools like https://t.co/tSTJJGy9yc for real-time captions and transcript downloads.

[Teen Vogue @TeenVogue]

Your future school is currently making life-or-death decisions that will affect students, faculty, staff, and local residents. Are you paying attention? https://t.co/6mjP00UWgX

[Accessible Campus Action Alliance @accesscampus]

Candid first-person accounts of camous reopening policies that are failing instructors ant students: between f**ked and a hard place https://t.co/7RfSxX08kN

[Dr. Cait S. Kirby (she/her) @caitskirby]

I made a Twine story about the fall from the perspective of staff members. Please let me know if you are staff and would be willing to test-play it.

[Accessible Campus Action Alliance @accesscampus]

When it comes to campus reopenings during the COVID-19 pandemic, what are the key policies for equity and safety? Read our “Policies That Matter” document and help us identify campuses that are doing it right. https://t.co/6FXYbFiVSW

[The Daily Tar Heel @dailytarheel]

The University will not share the number of cases in each cluster, Associate Vice Chancellor for University Communications Beth Keith told The Daily Tar Heel.

"Due to FERPA, we're not able to share specific numbers," Keith said.
https://t.co/khDgq0PTXh

[The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies @disasterstrat]

Check out our latest blog post by @annalandre about the gaps in #college and university reopening plans for ensuring the civil rights and well being of students with #disabilities during the #COVID19 pandemic.
https://t.co/pmgfQGqegT

[Accessible Campus Action Alliance @accesscampus]

The Accessible Campus Action Alliance’s “Beyond High-Risk” statement is covered in this @USATODAY article alongside the incredible organizing work of disabled undergraduates to fight for access to online education

[Accessible Campus Action Alliance @accesscampus]

As universities prepare to reopen, how will we assess whether they have done so with care, ethics, and precaution? Read more in the Accessible Campus Action Alliance’s “Policies that Matter” statement #covidcampus #disabilitytwitter https://t.co/zbYrCkopsY