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Disability Studies Professor Awarded 2023 Adjunct Faculty Teaching Prize

June 22, 2023

Professor Neil Harbus, who teaches in the disability studies programs, accepted the award for his creative and innovative online teaching in a ceremony on June 7.

Disability Rights Activist Judy Heumann

CUNY SPS Honors Legendary Disability Rights Activist

April 21, 2023

Judy Heumann, known as the mother as the disability rights movement, was an inspiration for the CUNY SPS disability studies programs.

Dr. Akemi Nishida

Former Disability Studies Student and Professor Publishes Book on Care for the Disabled

April 14, 2023

In this Q&A, Dr. Akemi Nishida discusses how the CUNY SPS disability studies program inspired her research and book.

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Celebrating CUNY Disability Awareness Month 2023

April 04, 2023

CUNY SPS is proud to observe the month with several events and a chat with the disability studies programs' new academic director, Dr. Andrew Marcum.

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Journal of Teaching Disability Studies Publishes Third Issue

October 20, 2022

The new issue explores several pedagogical experiments made by disability studies practitioners at their schools.