Newly Revised Standards for Disability Resources and Services

The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) is pleased to announce the release of a newly revised set of standards for Disability Resources and Services (DRS).

The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) is pleased to announce the release of a newly revised set of standards for Disability Resources and Services (DRS).

CAS, a consortium composed of over 40 collaborating professional associations representing over 115,000 professionals in higher education, has developed standards for 50 functional areas and 3 cross-functional teams, and rooted them in the scholarship and work conducted within their respective fields. These revised standards delineate expectations for practitioners and educators in related functional areas and are an update to the standards published in the 2023 CAS Professional Standards for Higher Education (11th version).

The CAS DRS standards committee was chaired by Anne Newman, Rutgers University – New Brunswick. CAS partnered closely with the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) throughout the revision process. The experts representing AHEAD were Ann Knettler, Delaware State University and Jill Sieben-Schneider, Northwestern University.

Newman, Knettler and Sieben-Schneider were joined by additional professionals who provided invaluable feedback on both the standards and contextual statement.

Standards Members
Anne Newman, ASCA, Chair
Ann Knettler, AHEAD, Expert
Jill Sieben-Schneider, AHEAD, Expert
Kathy Walters, ACCED-I
Regina Lawson, IACLEA
Christine Ferguson, HECMA
Andrea Reeve, SMC Liaison

External Experts
Jake Brillhart, Rogers State University
Chris Dallager, Mississippi State University
Chester Goad, TN Technical
Emily Nester, Cornell University
Julie Rasmuson, York College of Pennsylvania
Natasha Russi, The Chicago School of Prof. Psychology
Spencer Scruggs, Trinity University
Andrea Sharpe-Robinson, Radford University
Sue Showers, Concordia University
Leslie Smith, Volunteer State Community
Elisabeth Sullivan, The Pratt Institute
Myles Urban, Saint Louis University
Patty Violi, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Michelle Zengulis, Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

CAS is proud to release this revised set of standards for an important and evolving functional area in higher education. Both the standards and the Self-Assessment Guide are now available in the CAS store, and are free to CAS annual subscribers.

The new standards for Disability Resources and Services is now available at: https://store.cas.edu/disability-resources-and-services-standards/. An accompanying Self-Assessment Guide (SAG) is available at https://store.cas.edu/disability-resources-and-services-self-assessment-guide/.

Please direct all questions and inquiries about the revised standards to the CAS Executive Director ([email protected]).