WHEELS ON CAMPUS -- A GUIDE TO WHEELCHAIR-FRIENDLY HIGHER EDUCATION (part 2)

 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Gerry Altamirano, director of UF’s Disability Resource Cen­ter, is a proactive and outspoken champion for social equity who has built a team that delivers world-class support to about 3,000 students with disabilities. 

About 50-70 DRC clients each year are students who use wheelchairs.

“Our institution as a whole strives to be the best. 

If we want to be the best, we have to have the best, and that includes people with disabilities,” says Altamirano. 

“People with disabilities have ideas and create innovations — but to be successful, we have to shift how our system works, or they won’t get through the front door in reality and metaphorically.”

WHEELS ON CAMPUS

A GUIDE TO WHEELCHAIR-FRIENDLY HIGHER EDUCATION

I am proud to be a major contributor to Wheels on Campus, published by New Mobility Magazine.

I wrote three stories about the top 20 universities for: access, accommodations, housing, extracurricular activities and study abroad.

Supported by United Spinal, the groundbreaking guide ran my profiles of the University of Florida, Auburn University and Texas A&M University.

Read the essential stories at https://www.newmobility.com/wheels-on-campus/