Beth Ribet, Lecturer in Gender Studies and Disability Studies, writes in The Daily Bruin:
“[A]s the strike progressed through the end of fall quarter, we witnessed no institutional guidance, acknowledgment or adaptations for faculty or students with disabilities intended to manage the significant impact of the strike on educational access for UCLA’s disability communities.
It would not be hard to infer that disability equity, access and inclusion have been forgotten – again – by the institution.
We were saddened to learn that the only disability-related addition to the new contract the UC did offer to our graduate student teaching assistants was in the form of access to “interim accommodations” while negotiating student accommodation requests. Absent a strong commitment to ensure that accommodations actually conform to the needs of graduate student workers, this imagined gain is essentially empty.”