{"id":554,"date":"2022-02-08T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/?p=554"},"modified":"2022-03-02T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T16:42:29","slug":"disability-awareness-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/2022\/02\/08\/disability-awareness-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"January- Disability Awareness Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>January Learning Hero:<\/h2>\n<h2>Megan Sullivan (She\/her\/hers)<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW59702763 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW59702763 BCX0\">Megan has encouraged me to think about diversity, equity, and inclusion on a broad scale. In particular, she has reminded me and taught me of the importance of disability <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW59702763 BCX0\">awareness,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW59702763 BCX0\"> especially when it comes to student support services. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW59702763 BCX0\">I&#8217;ve<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW59702763 BCX0\"> begun to change my way of thinking because of her continued support and advocacy of students, faculty, and staff who may have a disability. Earlier in the semester she penned an op-ed for BU Today: https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/higher-ed-institutions-hiring-more-faculty-staff-with-disabilities\/. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW59702763 BCX0\">It&#8217;s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW59702763 BCX0\"> a thoughtful and insightful quick read that I encourage everyone to explore.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW59702763 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nominator: David Cotter<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January Learning Hero: Megan Sullivan (She\/her\/hers) Megan has encouraged me to think about diversity, equity, and inclusion on a broad scale. In particular, she has reminded me and taught me of the importance of disability awareness, especially when it comes to student support services. I&#8217;ve begun to change my way of thinking because of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/odl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}