WELCOME
DREAM is an organization-in-process, initiated in the hopes of promoting a national (United States-based) disabilities agenda for post-secondary students and their allies and serving as an educational resource and source of support for both individuals and local campus-based groups. A genuinely cross-disabilities effort, DREAM aims to fully include students with the full range of disabilities--psychiatric, cognitive, developmental, mental, physical, intellectual, sensory, and psychological-- explicitly including groups who have been traditionally marginalized or under-represented within the larger Disability Community.
We advocate for the continued development of disability culture and disability pride as well as related sub-cultures and movements (e.g. autistic culture/pride, mad culture/pride) and strongly value physical, mental and neurodiversity.
We advocate for the continued development of disability culture and disability pride as well as related sub-cultures and movements (e.g. autistic culture/pride, mad culture/pride) and strongly value physical, mental and neurodiversity.
Our New Logo
Check out our New Logo....! We wanted to convey that as students it is our ultimate goal of graduating from college to become productive members of society and to achieve all of our dreams. We hope that you like it!
NEWS and UPDATES
February 10th, 2011
Hello Members and allies,
I wanted to give you all an update as to what is going on with DREAM. First, I want to say thank you to Wendy Harbour at the Taischoff center who has become our official faculty advisor among other things. Wendy has graciously given her time, energy, and funding to help get DREAM off the ground. So, in a short while you will be seeing a press release announcing DREAM and its involvement with the Taischoff center for Inclusive Education at Syracuse University. DREAM is to become the FIRST National Online Disability Cultural Center.
Our next step is to ask, for those who wanted to be a part of the board, for board members to accept positions. We have selected a number of people and will be emailing them in the next week. Our board will consist of only students. We are not going to have a advisory board since then it looks like we need to be supervised. However, we do accept that we need some people with experience and will be looking to both Wendy Harbour and Scott Lissner for advice since they have a lot of experience to offer. We will accept advice from anyone and then the board will take it under advisement and make a decision. The board will changed annually unless another member does not step up to take the position. It is my hope that all of our student members will get a chance to be on the board.
Also, you will start seeing changes to the website. First, the format has changed in order to have greater access. I have removed the drop down menus and have links to associated web pages at the top of each page on the menu. I am working on making this site better for everyone and hopefully a great addition to the world of disability.
Finally, we are working on a few projects. First, we are working on a newsletter. This will hopefully be sent out electronically via email so that you can stay up to date with Dream's happenings. Next we are working on a zine (online magazine) which will allow our members to submit their work - art projects, poetry, research papers from all disciplines, etc. We hope to make this a peer reviewed magazine that only accepts work from disabled students, an opportunity we sometimes do not get. Finally, I am still trying to get an online e-mentoring program up and running and will be working towards this goal as soon as possible.
We thank you all for your support and look forward to hearing your valuable opinions!
Michelle White and Wendy Harbour
Hello Members and allies,
I wanted to give you all an update as to what is going on with DREAM. First, I want to say thank you to Wendy Harbour at the Taischoff center who has become our official faculty advisor among other things. Wendy has graciously given her time, energy, and funding to help get DREAM off the ground. So, in a short while you will be seeing a press release announcing DREAM and its involvement with the Taischoff center for Inclusive Education at Syracuse University. DREAM is to become the FIRST National Online Disability Cultural Center.
Our next step is to ask, for those who wanted to be a part of the board, for board members to accept positions. We have selected a number of people and will be emailing them in the next week. Our board will consist of only students. We are not going to have a advisory board since then it looks like we need to be supervised. However, we do accept that we need some people with experience and will be looking to both Wendy Harbour and Scott Lissner for advice since they have a lot of experience to offer. We will accept advice from anyone and then the board will take it under advisement and make a decision. The board will changed annually unless another member does not step up to take the position. It is my hope that all of our student members will get a chance to be on the board.
Also, you will start seeing changes to the website. First, the format has changed in order to have greater access. I have removed the drop down menus and have links to associated web pages at the top of each page on the menu. I am working on making this site better for everyone and hopefully a great addition to the world of disability.
Finally, we are working on a few projects. First, we are working on a newsletter. This will hopefully be sent out electronically via email so that you can stay up to date with Dream's happenings. Next we are working on a zine (online magazine) which will allow our members to submit their work - art projects, poetry, research papers from all disciplines, etc. We hope to make this a peer reviewed magazine that only accepts work from disabled students, an opportunity we sometimes do not get. Finally, I am still trying to get an online e-mentoring program up and running and will be working towards this goal as soon as possible.
We thank you all for your support and look forward to hearing your valuable opinions!
Michelle White and Wendy Harbour
