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College students with disabilities are too often excluded

  • Written by Christa Bialka, Assistant Professor of Special Education, Villanova University
Colleges and universities have been challenged to create more inclusive environments for disabled students.Monkey Business Images/www.shutterstock.com

AnnCatherine Heigl, a sophomore at George Mason University, recently attempted to join all eight sororities at her school. All eight turned her down.

If you ask her sister, who Tweeted about how the...

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