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March 30, 2022
“In three short years, registrations for Yale’s Student Accessibility Services have nearly doubled. Yet this number is likely two to three times lower than the actual number...
March 10, 2022
Breaking news on the lifting of the campus-wide mask mandate. Joaquín comments: “Joaquín Lara Midkiff ’24, former president of Disability Empowerment for Yale, told the News...
February 22, 2022
The YDN reports on DEFY’s efforts to make hybrid learning accommodations availabe for students with disabilities in light of the dynamic COVID-19 landscape on campus: “...
February 15, 2022
Michael Ndubisi reports: “Advocates for people with disabilities are working alongside University administrators with the aim of creating a cultural center for students...
September 2, 2021
The YDN’s Zaporah Price writes,  “[l]ast month, University administrators announced, via a campus-wide email, myriad changes and new initiatives for addressing...
May 28, 2021
Sylvan Lebrun reports, “[s]tarting this fall, first year students with disabilities will have access to a new peer liaison program designed to provide them with support as...
April 20, 2021
The YDN’s Lucy Hodgman writes on the announcement of DEFY’s successful advocacy to get the Disability Peer Mentor Program funded and institutionalized. Starting...

News

March 30, 2022
“In three short years, registrations for Yale’s Student Accessibility Services have nearly doubled. Yet this number is likely two to three times lower than the actual number...
March 10, 2022
Breaking news on the lifting of the campus-wide mask mandate. Joaquín comments: “Joaquín Lara Midkiff ’24, former president of Disability Empowerment for Yale, told the News...
February 22, 2022
The YDN reports on DEFY’s efforts to make hybrid learning accommodations availabe for students with disabilities in light of the dynamic COVID-19 landscape on campus: “...