Disability Justice II: Spring 2024

March 25 – April 14, 2024

Short Course

Disability Justice II: Intersectional identities, action, and justice

Description

In this course, we focus on an intersectional framework centering disabled Black, brown, indigenous, and people of color and builds on foundational disability justice topics in the context of higher education to move equity awareness into equity action. Advance your knowledge from Disability Justice I or build on other prior learning and experiences. 

In the short course, you can expect to create documents and/or find ways to apply your learning right away, including options like: 

• Reflect on your own identities and ongoing learning in disability justice. 
• Curate tools and resources to support a disability justice action or advocacy plan that center disability and race. 
• Take action and create an advocacy plan that increases access in meaningful ways from a disability justice perspective, for example: 
• Draft an email/letter to a decision maker advocating for a change through multiple means of communication, i.e., email, letter, conversation, etc. 
• Plan ways to re-design a space, communications, documents, media, and/or 
• Engage in collective action that centers disabled Black, brown, indigenous and people of color in disability rights actions. 

Course Learning Objectives:

By the end of this 3-week short course, participants will be able to:

• Link historical beliefs, actions, and spaces to current barriers in higher education. 
• Connect disability justice and antiracism advocacy at national, community, and campus levels.
• Create an action plan for disability justice advocacy. 

Suggested Audience 

Faculty (Full-time and part-time), Instructional Designers and Technologists, Faculty Developers/Trainers, and Concurrent Enrollment instructors.

Estimated Time Commitment 

Most participants are able to complete this course by committing 4-6 hours per week. 

Reflect on your Professional Development 

As you progress through this course, please consider how you can use the assignments as a way to highlight your work on your Professional Development Plan. Consider sharing your work with your leadership team.

Registration Required

Use the RSVP tool below to register. There is a limit of 30 participants per course.

Reminder Coming:  We use the email address you provide to send a calendar appointment to remind you of the start date of this short course.

Accommodations: If you require accommodations to participate in this event, please send an email to the facilitator at the bottom of this page.

Course Location 

This course is hosted and facilitated using the D2L Brightspace instance of Minnesota State called, MnSite. 

Questions?  

Contact the Network for Educational Development.