Welcome to Disability Alliance
Disability Alliance is a student run organization that works to promote a broader understanding of diversity and human experiences by exploring disability issues
and promoting a more accessible and accepting environment.
Disability Alliance welcomes everyone who is interested
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Disability Alliance Events
Disability Alliance works with other groups on campus to promote awareness through speakers, monthly events and film.
Some events we have
hosted are:
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Logo design by Brett Lysne ('08)
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combines notions of disability and an ideal world to suggest how much better the world would be if we embraced the infinite variety of bodies, minds, and experiences that make us human |
Disability Alliance Mission
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strives to foster an understanding of physical, cognitive, sensory, and emotional disabilities.
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considers disability to be a diversity issue rather than a matter of personal failure or private struggle.
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acknowledges the social stigma surrounding disability and strives to redress it through a combination of programmatic development, education, and outreach.
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advocates:
- improved physical access to campus facilities and activities
- supportive and inclusive learning environments that encourage every student to achieve educational and professional goals
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welcomes everyone. |
To contribute to a more supportive environment for people with disabilities please come to the Disability Alliance meetings every other Monday at 6:00 p.m. in the Prairie Lounge and subscribe to the UMMDISTOPIA@ lists.umn.edu. Contact berberit@morris.umn.edu for more information.
Basic Facts |
One in nine college students has a disability.
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- College students with disabilities are much more likely to drop out of college than their non-disabled peers.
- A person with a Bachelor’s Degree makes 67% more than a person with a high school diploma.
- Americans with disabilities are more than twice as likely to postpone needed health care because they cannot afford it.
- You will likely “visit” impairment over the course of your lifetime.
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You are or will be the child, sibling, friend, neighbor, student, teacher,
colleague, employer, or parent of a person with a disability.
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