Thread by @DisInHigherEd

And for my last tweet before heading off to a physio appointment (as one does): I want to talk about professional development for disabled folks in higher ed.

This month of #DEHEM takeovers and panels has featured a lot of conversations about mentoring. It's clear that there is a huge gap when it comes to mentoring disabled students/grad students/post-docs/early career scholars/etc... I'm not going to re-run those polls.

Mentoring is a pretty broad category, so I want to get specific: what do disabled folks need from mentors in addition to the usual stuff? (This poll is obviously a super partial list, so please continue the discussion below!)

I also want to talk about professional development beyond mentoring. Mentoring can put pressure on already marginalized faculty to pick up institutional slack, so what can institutions do to support the professional development of disabled scholars as well?

Ok, ok, those are both pretty "leading" polls. We want -- and are owed -- all of those things (and more!) as disabled scholars.

Let's make a professional development list of demands... er, I mean, wishlist!

Some things I can think of:
- A funding pool for captioning/ASL/etc... to make campus events more accessible
- A funding pool for conference registration/conference travel (which can cost us a lot more!)
- An actual space on campus for disability-related groups/programming

There is so much more to be done, however. What would you like to see?!

Comment below!