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Disability Services

MIAD provides reasonable and appropriate accommodations for students with documented disabilities. Accommodations are determined on an individual basis through Academic Resources. For more information regarding polices and procedures, download the MIAD Disability Services document (PDF format, can be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program).

Students with a disability, whether physical, learning, sensory, or psychological, are encouraged to contact the MIAD’s Student Accessibility Coordinator, Nichole Uecker. Nichole’s office is located near the Library and Academic Succes Center in Room RL95B. Students must meet with the Accessibility Coordinator before they can obtain accommodations for their disability.

Students are encouraged to notify the Student Accessibility Coordinator in a timely manner so that appropriate accommodations can be provided. MIAD considers June 1 as a reasonable date for receipt of documentation of a disability for fall semester enrollees and November 1 for spring semester enrollees.

On campus resources

Support Staff

Nichole Uecker, Student Accessibility Coordinator
Office RL95B
414-847-3347
 

Community Resources

Milwaukee County Disability Services: https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/DHHS/DSD
  • Provides information, assistance, consultation, resources, and help with transition and benefits
Disability Rights Wisconsin: http://www.disabilityrightswi.org/
  • Private non-profit organization that protects the rights of people with disabilities statewide
 

National Resources

Disability Rights, Education, Activism, and Mentoring (DREAM)
https://www.dreamcollegedisability.org/
  • National organization for and by college students with disabilities

National Center for College Students with Disabilities (NCCSD)
http://www.nccsdonline.org/

  • Federally-funded national center for college and graduate students with any type of disability, chronic health condition, or mental or emotional illness
  • Posts disability and higher education news: http://www.nccsdonline.org/news.html
Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT)
https://www.washington.edu/doit/
  • Promoting inclusion and success for people with disabilities
USA Disability Services: https://www.usa.gov/disability-services
  • Information for people with disabilities

 

Important terms:

Disability: “A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities”
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adaaa.cfm
 
Ableism: “The practices and dominant attitudes in society that devalue and limit the potential of persons with disabilities. A set of practices and beliefs that assign inferior value (worth) to people who have developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disabilities”
http://www.stopableism.org/p/what-is-ableism.html
 
Invisible Disabilities: “A physical, mental or neurological condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities that is invisible to the onlooker”
https://invisibledisabilities.org/what-is-an-invisible-disability/
 
 

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News

MIAD Gallery at The Ave student worker interviews exhibition artists

Working at the periphery of student life, staff members hold technical and administrative positions that allow for the smooth operation of the college’s day-to-day and long-term activities. When they’ve clocked out of the MIAD building, they’re home, in the studio, outside in nature– and exercising their own creative muscles and sustaining personal arts practices. “After Hours,” the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) Gallery at the Ave’s latest exhibition is the first of its kind for the college where staff talents are in the limelight.

Emerging Technology Center hosts Technique of the Week

During the fall 2023 semester, the Lubar Emerging Technology Center at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) hosts “Technique of the Week” demonstrations for students, faculty and staff. MIAD community members are invited to attend presentations on everything from 3D scanning objects to fermentation to Minecraft. Most recently, attendees played pinball on a handmade virtual pinball machine.

Inaugural Latine Student Exhibition announces winners

Four students were honored at the inaugural Latine Student Exhibition, on view at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) until October 13, 2023. Coordinated by rhi anderson-martinez, executive director of equity and inclusion at MIAD, the exhibition highlights and celebrates the art and design skills of MIAD’s Latine students during Hispanic Heritage Month.

MIAD Fine Art faculty selected for national Olmsted panel

Brad Anthony Bernard, professor of fine art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), will participate in a panel discussion about Frederick Law Olmsted at the 2023 annual conference of the Olmsted Network in Milwaukee. An accomplished muralist, Bernard designed a mural depicting Olmsted which will be displayed at a public mural and sculpture garden in Milwaukee.