Institutional Diversity

This WSU office provides individuals with learning, mental or physical disabilities an equal opportunity to attain their academic and personal goals to the fullest of their abilities.

Qualified students receive academic support and tutoring, access to adaptive computer equipment and other services that enable our students to persist and graduate from Wichita State University.

This student group is for those students who are interested in learning and growing their knowledge of American Sign Language as well as familiarity with the Deaf community.

The move toward higher standards in our nation's schools has raised a major dilemma for educators committed to the inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education classroom. How can these students truly succeed in a learning environment where academic standards and formalized testing are increasing? In "Standards and Inclusion: Can We Have Both?" Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky and Alan Gartner, from the National Center on Educational Restructuring and Inclusion at the City University of New York, address this question and many other critical issues facing educators who are supporting students with disabilities in inclusive settings.

Viewers learn the signs for numbers, money, time, months, weather, transportation, directions, hobbies, and food. Part of the series American Sign Language. (61 minutes).

This program reemphasizes the value of universal suffrage through the stories of Amendments 15, 19, 23, 24, and 26, which, taken together, enfranchise citizens 18 years of age and older and forbid denying the vote on the basis of race, sex, locale, or tax arrears. Profiles of Amendments 12, 22, and 25 (the Presidential Amendments) and Amendments 17, 20, and 27 offer additional insights into how the principles of democracy are put to work. Correlates to all applicable state and national standards. Recommended for middle school through college.