Build is a two-year program that allows students with intellectual disabilities to live on campus and take college classes. Students have mentors around campus, other students who want to be their housing mentor,. We just launched our eighth cohort and it's been a great success. Many challenges, of course, as well because our population of individuals with intellectual disabilities, they're vulnerable to different things. But I think at Bethel we've been able to make it into an incredibly welcoming place.
Katie Bonawitz shares about disability inclusion in higher education on episode 435 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Your students are not going to be able to shine if you put them in a box of who you think they might be.
-Katie Bonawitz