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Example from Participant: Jacky

Jacky is a blind woman of colour professor in a tenure track job, her institution was slow to provide accommodations like a reader, screen reading software and a scanner. Since Jacky didn't have access to the accommodations she needed she ended up using half of her eight course buyouts in the first three semesters, which are supposed to be used over five years to support tenure-track faculty with research activity. This was paired with Jacky hiring a reader who then left the institution which left her with no reader mid semester. When Jacky appealed to her department chair for more course releases after her first year she was only offered an apology and then was cast by her dean and provost as being too needy and demanding. When course releases were finally discussed administration wanted to grant them on the basis of low-productivity instead of lack of accommodation which would've negatively impacted her chance at getting tenure.

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Updated 2026-05-09

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Disability Studies

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