Disability Cultural Centers

Books

• Kim, E., & Aquino, K. C. (Eds.). (2017). Disability as diversity in higher education: Policies and practices to enhance student success. Taylor & Francis. 
• Evans, N. J., Broido, E. M., Brown, K. R., & Wilke, A. K. (2017). Disability in higher education: A social justice approach. Jossey-Bass.

Journal Articles

• Abes, E. S., & Wallace, M. M. (2018). “People see me, but they don’t see me”: An intersectional study of college students with physical disabilities. Journal of College Student Development, 59(5), 545-562. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2018.0052
• Agarwal, N., Calvo, B., & Kumar, V. (2014). Paving the road to success: A students with disabilities organization in a university setting. College Student Journal, 48(1), 34-44. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/prin/csj/2014/00000048/00000001/art00004
• Broido, E. M., Erwin, V. M., Stygles, K., Fraley, L., & Najdek, R. (2023). “Disability is something you can be proud of”: College student activists claiming disability identities and creating cross-disability communities. Journal of College Student Development, 64(3), 274-291. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2023.a901169
• Chiang, E. S. (2020). Disability cultural centers: How colleges can move beyond access to inclusion. Disability & Society, 35(7), 1183-1188. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1679536
• Minotti, B. J., Ingram, K. M., Forber-Pratt, A. J., & Espelage, D. L. (2021). Disability community and mental health among college students with physical disabilities. Rehabilitation Psychology, 66(2), 192-201. https://doi.org/10.1037/rep0000377
• Wilke, A. K., Brown, K. R., Crosby, D., & Engler, J. S. (2023). Cripping grounded theory: disabled disability resource providers and disability disclosure in postsecondary education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2023.2258105

Other Academic Works

• Brecken, R. (2023). Disabilities in higher education: The impact of the Disability Resource Center at Mississippi State University (Publication No. 30526955) [Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
• Elmore, K., Edelstein, J., & Thomson, L. (2019, July 9-13). Cripping campus: Disabled student activism and leadership in disability cultural centers in higher education [Conference presentation]. AHEAD National Convention 2019, Boston, MA, United States. https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AHEAD/38b602f4-ec53-451c-9be0-5c0bf5d27c0a/UploadedImages/CONFERNCES/2019_AHEAD/2019_HANDOUTS/1.9/DCC_Panel_AHEAD_2019_final.pptx
• Kulshan, T. (2023). Disabled students’ experiences with disability cultural centers and disability culture in U.S. higher education (Publication No. 30691055) [Doctoral dissertation, City University of Seattle]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
• Saia, T. (2019). Disability as an identity: Disability cultural centers in higher education (Publication No. 22616844) [Doctoral dissertation, The University of Arizona]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. 
• Stewart, R. (2023). “Nothing about us without us”: A qualitative inquiry of disabled student activists creating disability cultural centers on college campuses (Publication No. 30489361) [Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Sacramento]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
• Thomson, E. A. (2022). Exploring the impact of a disability cultural center on disabled students in higher education (Publication No. 29330572) [Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Popular Press

• Ahuja, K. (2023, April 20). TCU senators are working to make disability community center a reality. The Tufts Daily. https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2023/04/tcu-senators-are-working-to-make-disability-community-center-a-reality
• Brager, S. (2023, October 22). UT Disability Cultural Center to open disability-focused library for students. The Daily Texan. https://thedailytexan.com/2023/10/22/ut-disability-cultural-center-to-open-disability-focused-library-for-students/
• Elmore, K., Saia, T., & Thomson, E. A. (2018, November). Special feature: An introduction to disability cultural centers in U.S. higher education, Part I. AHEAD: Association on Higher Education and Disability. https://www.ahead.org/professional-resources/publications/hub/hub-nov-2018/hub-nov-2018-special-feature-disability-cultural-centers
• Georgetown University. (2023, September 7). Georgetown launches new disability cultural center on campus. https://www.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-launches-new-disability-cultural-center-on-campus/
• Herder, L. (2022, January 27). Only ten disability cultural centers exist at U.S. institutions. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. https://www.diverseeducation.com/demographics/disabilties/article/15287582/only-ten-disability-cultural-centers-exist-at-us-institutions
• Lu, A. (2022, July 15). In fight against ableism, disabled students build centers of their own. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-fight-against-ableism-disabled-students-build-centers-of-their-own
• Pardo, D., & Ellison, J. (2023, August 18). Sac State is the 1st CSU to open a disability cultural center. Spectrum News 1. https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/inside-the-issues/2023/08/18/sac-state-is-the-1st-csu-to-open-a-disability-cultural-center
• Pillsbury, E. (2023, November 1). Founding director of UT’s Disability Cultural Center talks campus culture shift. Alcade (University of Texas). https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2023/11/director-ut-disability-cultural-talks-campus-culture-shift/