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UC Davis Disability Resources
The following resource link tree is provided to help disabled faculty, students, and staff navigate campus disability resources.
Acquiring Accommodations
The accommodations process can be convoluted. There are two separate offices for requesting accommodations at UC Davis: students (SDC) and employees (DMS). If you are a student and an employee, you will have to go through both processes separately. The resources below are meant to help facilitate acquiring accommodations.
- Slideshow: The Accommodations Process at UC Davis, A Cheese Grater to the Soul. This slideshow gives an overview of the accommodations process at UC Davis. Spoiler alert: the process can be a nightmare.
- Student Disability Center (SDC): official university office for learning access needs, e.g. undergraduates and graduates needing adjustments for classroom or lab context
- SDC Intake Form: form your doctor must fill out to qualify for accommodations through UC Davis (as a student)
- Disability Management Services (DMS): official university office for employee access needs, e.g. student workers, graduate student TAs, peer tutors, faculty
- DMS Intake Forms: select the form that corresponds most closely with your situation as an employee of UC Davis
- Job Application Network (JAN) Advice for Requesting Accommodations: helpful information and resources about your rights under ADA, wording of accommodation requests, and frequently asked questions about workplace accommodations
Finding Community
The following resources are spaces to engage with other disabled community members.
UC Davis Specific
- Associated Students of UC Davis Disability Rights Advocacy Committee (ASUCD DRAC): undergraduate and graduate student committee to fight for disabled student rights. Also check out the DRAC Twitter.
- Disabled Student Union (DSU): a club for all disabled students on campus, which includes a thriving in-person and online (Discord) community
- UC Access Now, UC Davis Chapter: intersectional, pan-disability activist group fighting for disability justice on campus. Follow the UC Access Now Twitter.
- UAW Disability Justice Committee: United Autoworkers Union 2865 Committee to address labor concerns of disabled TAs, Associate Instructors, Tutors, and other Academic Student Employees (ASEs)
UC-wide & National
- UC JADE: from their website: “JADE is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for disabled students, alumni, staff, and faculty within higher education and beyond. By and for disabled students, we work to promote access to campus resources, education, safety, well-being, and community throughout academia.”
- UC Access Now: cross-UC organization dedicated to fighting ableism in every form through an intersectional, pan-disability framework as outlined in the Demandifesto.
- National Disabled Students Coalition: a Discord Community of disabled students in higher education (invite only; no website)
Disability Discrimination
Unfortunately, disability discrimination and inequity is common at UC Davis. If you experience discrimination, exclusion, inaccessible materials, or bullying on the basis of disability, these are resources which may be able to address your concerns.
General Resources (Student, Employee, Visitor)
- ADA Compliance Office: official university office to file complaints about rejected accommodations, other discrimination. Non-confidential. Email: compliance@ucdavis.edu
- Harassment and Discrimination Assistance and Prevention Program (HDAPP): official university office to report harassment and discrimination. Non-confidential. Email: HDAPP@ucdavis.edu
- Ombuds Office: confidential campus mediation service to report discrimination, harassment, bullying
- Union Grievance Processes graduate-student specific. If you are an employee at UC Davis, you have a right to a safe, accessible work place free of discrimination. If you believe your rights have been violated, file a grievance with your union.
- Associated Students of UC Davis Disability Rights Advocacy Committee (ASUCD DRAC): undergraduate and graduate student committee to fight for disabled student rights, can contact departments on your behalf regarding inaccessible material, infrastructure, discriminatory behavior,
- Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR): official federal government entity to file complaints about disability discrimination in schools, such as professors using to honor accommodations, inaccessible infrastructure, harassment, slurs, and so forth.
- Disability Rights California: a non-profit legal organization, from their website: “Protecting and advancing the rights of individuals with disabilities across California for more than 40 years.”
- ACLU: a legal organization that has, in the past and recently, fought for disability rights, including in education.
Employees & Graduate Students
Employees and Graduate Students have different resources available to them, including union representation.
- Disability Justice Committee meets regularly to coordinate union policy in support of disabled graduate students. Open to all interested in forwarding the labor rights of disabled graduate students, and/or coordinating with graduate student employees to support accessibility initiatives for undergraduates, staff, faculty in addition to graduate students.
- UAW Disability Justice Committee:
- Student Researchers United:
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: official federal office to report employment discrimination related to disability
- California Fair Housing and Employment: official State of California office for California residents to report disability discrimination in housing, empolyment