Encountering institutional barriers and resistance

Expanding Promise: Depicting the Ecosystems of Support and Financial Sustainability for Five College Promise Populations

“…Students with disabilities face several obstacles to obtaining a postsecondary degree, including inaccessibility, ableism from others, and insufficient support. For example, students with disabilities struggle to find information on disability services and resources on institutional websites (Gabel et al, 2016) and to navigate physically inaccessible campuses (Albanesi & Nusbaum, 2017). This makes it hard for them to access the services they need and to attend their classes.…”

“…Students with disabilities have expressed a desire for better service delivery (Abreu et al, 2016) and communication/advocacy from disability services offices to properly receive the accommodations they need (Francis et al, 2019). In the classroom, students with disabilities must confront professors who are either ableist or do not know how to accommodate them properly (Francis et al, 2019) and peers who may not believe they are not disabled or judge them for their disabilities (Albanesi & Nusbaum, 2017).…”