Making Good on the Promise

Jeanne L. Higbee has worked in higher education settings since 1974 in a career that has bridged student affairs and teaching. Currently, she is a professor in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is a recipient of the ACPA—College Student Educators International Voice of Inclusion Medallion and Disability Ally Award , an ACPA Educational Leadership Foundation Diamond Honoree, the Robert Griffin Long and Outstanding Service Award from the College Reading and Learning Association, and the Henry Young Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution to the National Association for Developmental Education. Alice A. Mitchell has been in student affairs since 1978 in admissions, residence life, career services, commuter student services, and other areas. Currently she is psychometrist (director of the testing office within the Counseling Center) at the University of Maryland, College Park. In ACPA—College Student Educators International, she is the immediate past chair of the Commission on Assessment and Evaluation and is currently coordinator for commissions. She is a recipient of the ACPA—College Student Educators International Voice of Inclusion Medallion and has been a Diamond Honoree of the ACPA Educational Leadership Foundation. She is the founding chair of the ACPA Standing Committee on Disability.

If you are committed to the ethics of our profession, if you care to create inclusive environments for all, if you are compelled to stop relegating disability issues to the margins, and if you choose to make good on the promise, then read this book. Higbee and Mitchell's work is enlightening.

• Part 1 ForewordPart 2 PrefacePart 3 Section I—IntroductionPart 4 Chapter 1—Disability Realities: Community, Culture, and Connection on College CampusesPart 5 Chapter 2—Philosophical and Theoretical Approaches to DisabilityPart 6 Section II—Voices of InclusionPart 7 Chapter 3—A Fabric of Similarity and Difference: First-Person AccountsPart 8 IntroductionPart 9 The Invasive Nature of Depression: Psychiatric DisabilityPart 10 A Push in a Significant Direction: Mobility ImpairmentPart 11 An Intersection of Multiple Identities: Congenital Limb AmputationPart 12 An Unexpected Additional Identity: Human Immune Deficiency (HIV)Part 13 An Invisible Identity: Learning DisabilityPart 14 Creating a Path for Career Advancement: Cerebral PalsyPart 15 A New Way of Seeing the World: Acquired Vision ImpairmentPart 16 Determination Points the Way for Others: Congenital Vision ImpairmentPart 17 Finding a Welcoming Environment: Deafness and Hearing ImpairmentPart 18 ConclusionPart 19 Section III—Theory and PracticePart 20 Chapter 4—Integrating Disability Into the Diversity Framework in the Training of Student Affairs ProfessionalsPart 21 Chapter 5—Making Graduate Preparation Programs and Assistantships in the Field of Student Affairs More AccessiblePart 22 Section IV—The Role of AlliesPart 23 Chapter 6—Allies in our MidstPart 24 Chapter 7—Turning Missteps into Forward Steps: A Guide for AlliesPart 25 IntroductionPart 26 Being an Ally in Language UsePart 27 The Informed Use of Simulation Activities: A Personal PerspectivePart 28 DisclosurePart 29 "Getting It" as an Ally: Interpersonal Relationships Between Colleagues With and Without DisabilitiesPart 30 Section V—Resources and ConclusionPart 31 Chapter 8—Educating Yourself and Others: Utilizing Resources and Disability Networks