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Protecting Trans Rights? Disability Inclusion? International Students? Why It’s All the Same Battle

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

lives with a disability, yet schools remain underfunded for special education, and accessibility in public spaces is inconsistent more than three decades after the ADA was passed. One in four adults in the U.S. A Deaf student in Ohio described it this way: "Im not disabled by my body.

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Why colleges are updating historic buildings to suit the modern student

University Business

“When you have alumni come back, they see a tremendous number of similarities of what they remember, but then you also have new students who come in and see bigger, brighter open spaces, media rooms and coffee shops,” said Peele. “It’s modernizing but also keeping some historical preservation as well.”

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Mini-series: Balance for better – Diversifying Wikipedia

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We also work with student societies (Law & Technology, History, Translation, Women in STEM, Wellcomm Kings), and have held events for Ada Lovelace Day, LGBT History Month, Black History Month, and celebrated Edinburgh’s Global Alumni; working with the UncoverEd project , and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Jun 19, 2019

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