Crucial Collaborations

A Practical Framework to Ensure Access, Equity, and Inclusion for Students With Disabilities

By: Neal Lipsitz, Michael Berger, Eileen Connell Berger

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Ensuring access and a sense of belonging for students with disabilities in higher education can be a complex process. Each student with a disability can have their own unique physical or mental health requirements, and every institution has its own unique organizational structure, culture, faculty, staff, and students. Crucial Collaborations: A Practical Framework to Ensure Access, Equity, and Inclusion for Students With Disabilities presents a cross-functional framework that administrators, faculty, access services providers, parents/guardians, and students themselves can use to review the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder who contributes to positive postsecondary experiences for students with disabilities. The groundbreaking framework has many applications, including facilitating student inclusion and socialization, empowering stakeholders through shared knowledge, and assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of institutional programs for students with disabilities. Throughout the book, the authors discuss their personal and professional experiences to animate and operationalize the framework. Crucial Collaborations is an essential resource for navigating the complexities in providing services for students with disabilities to ensure access, equity, and inclusion.