GAAD 2025 - C1: Creating Awareness & Empowering Change: Building a Campus-wide Disability Awareness Program

Creating Awareness & Empowering Change: Building a Campus-wide Disability Awareness Program

Erin Metz and Allison Kushner, University of Michigan

This presentation focuses on how to develop and implement a comprehensive disability awareness training program designed to educate a university community on its disability compliance obligations but also foster a culture of disability inclusion and accessibility. This presentation by UM's Disability Equity Office will highlight the key challenges, successes, and impacts of implementing its own disability education and training program. Participants will gain insight into leveraging their available resources to build a training program, including creating a strategic mission and roadmap for implementation, and how to utilize objective data to gain buy-in and enthusiasm for growth from key stakeholders.

Session C1 slides