Promoting disability-friendly campuses to prospective students: An analysis of university recruitment materials

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dc.contributor.authorHaller, Beth A.
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Mass Communications and Communication Studies.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-14T21:25:44Z
dc.date.available2017-03-14T21:25:44Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractEstimates are that currently about 9 percent of students on college campuses have some form of disability. These students are all are supposed to receive accommodations on those college campuses based on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The focus of this study is how these students receive information about these accommodations, their rights, the campus accessibility, and other issues related to them. The findings of this study show that university viewbooks and other materials sent to interested high school students are depicting disability. However, there does not appear to be much recruitment of prospective students with disabilities past the occasional picture in the viewbook. No cover letter made a mention of unique services for students with disabilities, and less than half of the university general materials mentioned campus disability services (40%). In addition, only 39 percent of the schools that sent any general materials sent Disabled Student Services (DSS) materials (N=85).en_US
dc.description.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v26i2.673en_US
dc.format.extent18 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2225V
dc.identifier.citationHaller, B.A. (2006). Promoting disability-friendly campuses to prospective students: An analysis of university recruitment materials. Disability Studies Quarterly, 26(2). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v26i2.673en_US
dc.identifier.issn2159-8371
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/3853
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherOhio State University Librariesen_US
dc.subjectDisabled Student Services officesen_US
dc.subjectuniversity recruitment of disabled studentsen_US
dc.subjectuniversity promotional materialsen_US
dc.subjectcollege students with disabilitiesen_US
dc.titlePromoting disability-friendly campuses to prospective students: An analysis of university recruitment materialsen_US
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