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December 5, 2024
Student spotlight: First-year student embraces advocacy role
Alejandro Esteban, a member of RIT’s Disability Leadership Scholars Program, educates others on campus about accommodations, and how students can advocate for them.
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May 2, 2024
Ask the Community: What Do Campus Disability Services Staff Most Want Publishers to Know?
The Scholarly Kitchen speaks with Jordana Qi, access coordinator for Disability Services, about the need for accessibility in product design, particularly math software.
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March 1, 2023
RIT disability leadership scholars advocate, educate for those with disabilities
Spectrum News talks to student Gavin Morrobel and Catherine Lewis, director of RIT’s Disability Services office, about RIT's Disability Leadership Scholars program.
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January 6, 2023
Disability Leadership Scholars program aims to educate and empower
Eight first-year RIT students have been selected to become the university’s first Disability Leadership Scholars to advocate and to educate about disabilities.
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September 21, 2021
RIT earns three accessibility awards from software giant Microsoft
RIT has risen to new heights when it comes to improving upon and providing cutting-edge accessibility solutions by being named a Microsoft Accessible University as part of its latest initiative. RIT is one of only six universities in the United States to receive the designation.
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January 27, 2021
Connections: Discussing the state of accessible housing for people with disabilities
WXXI’s “Connections” program features Catherine Lewis, director of the Disability Services Office.
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December 4, 2020
Podcast: Accessibility in Higher Education
Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Ep. 41: RIT is considered to be one of the most accessible college campuses in the world. NTID President Gerry Buckley and RIT Director of Disability Services Catherine Lewis chat about how that accessibility came to be, including the signing of the landmark 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act.
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March 4, 2020
RIT’s new Disability Services Office director says disability should be embraced
Disability is an identity, not a deficit. That’s the message Catherine Lewis, director of RIT’s Disability Services Office, hopes people will remember.