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Example from Participant: Rodger
Rodger is a tenured faculty member who cannot use stairs, however his office is on the fourth floor of his department building. Rodger, like many disabled academics, arranged his accommodations with his department chair rather than with HR. Rodger realized that the elevator was routinely shut off on weekends and the administrative assistant in his department told him he had to go through HR and register as an employee with a disability to get the elevator turned on on the weekends. Registering with HR required time, paying for biocertification, and then convincing HR to change the building policy, Rodger ended up bringing the question to his school's affirmative action officer who was able to directly contact the building manager, but it is still only occasionally that the building manager remembers not to shut down the elevator.
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Disability Studies
Culture as a Sociological Issue
Social Science
Empirical Science
Science
Sociology