Year: 2022
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Halloween and Halloween Weekend
Halloween is just around the corner and we know many of you will celebrate on campus and in the community. We encourage everyone to have a plan to stay safe for Halloween and to look after one another. Please also choose your costume thoughtfully: Remember cultural, ethnic, and religious identities are not costumes. For many, wearing a…
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Welcoming Karen Nielson, Our New Disability Resource Center Director
It is with tremendous excitement that we introduce the newest member of our Student Success and Equity team: Karen Nielson. Yesterday, Karen began her tenure as the director of our Disability Resource Center. Karen comes to us from UC Berkeley. There she served as the executive director of the Disabled Student’s Program and Disability Cultural…
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Update on Payan v. LACCD
Your advocacy worked! Thank you to Paul Grossman and all of you who made your voices heard! Many of you joined us on January 31 for Paul Grossman’s webinar about the potential for serious damage to the ADA in a legal case brought by several blind students against the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). We are…
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Payan v. LACCD
In case you missed it, ADA expert Paul Grossman joined nearly 1,000 AHEAD members for a 45-minute webinar to talk about an important pending case, and what you can do to help prevent it from stripping the ADA rights from all Americans. There is a lawsuit pending that could have serious ramifications for disabled people…