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ADA Resource Center for Equity & Accessibility

The ADA Resource Center for Equity and Accessibility works to promote diversity and inclusion through fostering an open, accessible, and inclusive learning and working environment. We strive to create and maintain a campus free of all barriers. We provide regularly scheduled events to promote camaraderie and inclusion of individuals with disabilities throughout our campus community.



Welcome

Welcome to the ADA Resource Center for Equity and Accessibility at the University of Kansas. We are so excited to have you join our community. We provide individuals with disabilities access to a wealth of campus and community resources, expertise on accessibility, employment accommodations, and offer a sense of belonging.



ADA Resource Center for Equity and Accessibility collaborates with KU units to provide accommodations for faculty, staff, and student employees coordinate accessibility compliance functions, provides training and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act, develops student, staff, and faculty advocacy for campus-wide accessibility, and fosters a more supportive community.

Our Mission

Empowering a community of excellence.

Our Vision

To create a campus climate that will sustain attention to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the spirit in which it was designed.

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KU Accessibility News

ANNOUNCING 2021 VIRTUAL MENTORING CIRCLE FOR DISABILITY INCLUSION PROGRAM

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas announces participants selected for Cohort III of the 2021 Virtual Mentoring Circles for Disability Inclusion (MCDI) program. The MCDI program seeks to strengthen the university by broadening participants’ perspectives on disability inclusion; providing knowledge, technical assistance and expertise on disability inclusion and providing opportunities for participants to use their new perspectives to change and improve disability inclusion within their own workplace and the university.

KU SERVES WEEK FOCUSES ON VOTER EDUCATION

LAWRENCE — The Center for Service Learning’s (CSL) fall KU Serves Week is taking place this week (Oct. 5-9) in conjunction with National Voter Education Week. During this week, the CSL and their Civic Engagement Ambassador partners are sharing information about registering to vote, learning about candidates on the ballot...

KANSAS ECONOMIC POLICY CONFERENCE TO ADDRESS POLICY INTERVENTIONS IN TIMES OF CRISIS

LAWRENCE — When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, government at all levels needed to manage a public health crisis, continue providing essential services and stave off economic disaster. However, public health interventions, such as stay-at-home orders and contact tracing, have had mixed reception from...

NEW BOOK DETAILS POWER OF PARATEXT IN MEDIEVAL WORKS

LAWRENCE – Back in the days before hyperlinks – before the printed page, even – how did people make reference to one written work within the body of another? How did they relate a historic account to the context of then current times?

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