July 15 – August 8, 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 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
The NED is committed to providing universal access to all of our events, we’d like to discover how we can make the event more inclusive so you can fully participate!
Machine generated captions are available in real-time for all Zoom events, however human generated CART (live caption) service and ASL interpretation can be requested with advanced notice (2 weeks) to make the event more accessible.
Please, let us know of any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate your full participation
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.