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CCIDS Hosts Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Celebration of Achievement
Photo caption: 2009 Disability Studies Scholars (Front row L-R: Natasha Lowden, Elizabeth Maliga, Brittany Brown, Michaela Ham, Thalia Grundstrom & Isaiah Morrissette. Back row L-R: Kevin Mansfield, Christa Carlson, Jillian Farrell & Sarah Quinn.)
Photo credit: BJ Kitchin, CCIDS
(April 30, 2009) Ten University of Maine undergraduates were recognized for successfully completing a 24-credit concentration in Interdisciplinary
Disability Studies during a ceremony at Wells Conference Center. Christa L. Carlson, Elementary Education major,
(at right) delivered the student address. Lu Zeph, Director of the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, welcomed the students and invited guests. Elizabeth DePoy, Coordinator and Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies, and Stephen Gilson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies, made remarks and presented the concentration certificates and stoles.
The Interdisciplinary Disability Studies curriculum, administered through the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, provides students with a means to explore disability within the larger context of diversity and human rights, and to examine scholarship, practice, and policy related to persons with disabilities.
The students honored at the celebration of achievement have mastered complex and diverse theories of disability. Particular emphasis is placed on promoting equality of opportunity and full access and participation in all areas of daily life, and in creatively fashioning environments to fit the full range of human variation. Students who enroll in the
Interdisciplinary Disability Studies courses represent majors from all colleges, schools, and departments throughout the university and apply their learning to their individual disciplines, interests, and lives outside of the academic environment.
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Celebration photo gallery
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Carlson's student address
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remarks by Liz DePoy
Read
remarks by Stephen Gilson
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