Disability and the University: A Disabled Students' Manifesto, 2nd Edition

For the student: This is what you should demand. For the institution: This is what you should provide. Disability and the University: A Disabled Students’ Manifesto, 2nd edition is a guide to what students with disabilities need to know about attending university, as well as to the essential supports and rights universities should provide. Each chapter represents a benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the institution, and lays clear what they should expect in the post Covid world. Written by those who have traversed the terrain of higher education, this book is not about disabled students, but instead is a manifesto, a call for change, a call to action. It is guide book, blueprint, and tool for both students and universities.

Table of Contents:
Mike Oliver: Foreword to the First Edition – Tanya Titchkosky/Rod Michalko: Foreword to the Second Edition – Ben Whitburn/Christopher McMaster: Post-Pandemic Opportunities for Inclusion in Higher Education – Jentel Van Havermaet: Cripping Time: Temporalities in Academia – Travis Chi Wing Lau: Slowness, Disability, and Academic Productivity: The Need to Rethink Academic Culture – Denise Beckwith: Disability Advocacy Within the Ableist Environment of Academia – Fady Shanouda: The Violent Consequences of Disclosure … and How Disabled and Mad Students Are Pushing Back – Leechin Heng: Negotiating the Space of Academia as a Disabled Student – Megan Zahneis: Disability Studies in Higher Education: Developing Identity and Community – Justin Freedman/Laura Jaffee/Katie Roquemore/Yosung Song/Hetsie Veitch: Beyond Compliance: Disabled Student Activism on Campus – George Low: Reasonable Adjustments – Zoie Sheets: But You Look Fine: Limitations of the Letter of Accommodation – Mostafa Attia: The Need for Systemic Supports: Barriers Faced by Students with Disabilities in the Majority World – Erin Pritchard: Hierarchy of Impairments: The Absence of Body Size in Disability Accommodations Within Universities – April B. Coughlin: "I Can’t Even Reach the Waffle-Maker!": Increasing Access for Students with Physical Disabilities on University Campuses – Dr. G. Geller/Dr. A. Müller: Assistance Dogs and Academia: Supporting the Dynamic Duo in the post-COVID "New World" – Justin Harford: Universalizing International Exchange for Students with Disabilities – P. Boopathi/K. Muruganandan: Creating an Accessible and Resilient Environment inside the Indian University – Laura Yvonne Bulk/Neera R. Jain: If not now, when? Catalyzing solidarity for enduring belonging in higher education – Katelin Anderson/Beth Rogers: Disabled by Society: Knowing and Invoking Your Rights – Karen McCall: Identifying and eliminating digital barriers after COVID – Tafadzwa Rugoho: Navigating the Mud of Tertiary Education: The Experience of Disabled Students at Universities in the Global South – Maree Roche: Even the Delusional Can Learn: The Recognition of Diverse States of Mind, Knowing and Being – Matthew Bereza: From Classification to Culture: Learning Disabilities in Higher Education – Ben Whitburn/Christopher McMaster: Final Thoughts: Political Struggle in Higher Education – About the Contributors.

About the Author :
Christopher McMaster (PhD) is the author of Educating all: Developing inclusive school cultures from within published by Peter Lang, and Radical Behavior: Humanizing the Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) published by Southern Skies Publications. He is the creator and lead editor of the Survive and Succeed postgraduate student support series, with editions published in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Scandinavia. Christopher has recently been an Assistant Professor of Education, Special Education at Augsburg University, Minneapolis, USA. He has since returned to his adopted home of New Zealand where he taught in the local community on a Pacific voyaging canoe. He writes both fiction and non-fiction, including seven novels, two anthologies of short stories and poetry, and has edited collected fiction works. His author website is: www.christophermcmaster.com Ben Whitburn is Associate Professor at the Southampton Education School. Ben undertakes research to build institutional capacity to account more effectively for diverse ways of knowing and being. Ben has published a body of literature in the interdisciplinary field of critical disability studies that reaffirms disability as productive potential.

Review :
“Disability and the University serves as a guide to what needs to be done in the future so that those looking back in 50 years’ time, will be as pleasantly surprised then as I am now about the changes that have taken place.” —Mike Oliver