It’s time to nominate faculty and staff for SSD’s Spring 2021 Faculty/Staff Appreciation Awards! Every semester SSD asks students to nominate faculty or staff at UT who have gone above and beyond to make sure students with disabilities have access to, and are included in, all aspects of campus life.… read more
Disability Graduation 2021
You’re Invited to Disability Graduation 2021! Join SSD and campus partners for UT’s Disability Graduation! We are excited to honor our graduates with disabilities and celebrate their accomplishment of earning a degree from UT! We know students with disabilities have often faced barriers during their time at UT and Disability… read more
Priority Registration for Summer and Fall 2021
Priority registration to register for Summer and Fall 2021 classes will be on Monday, April 19th from 2 pm to midnight. Below are the action steps undergraduate students should take to use priority registration: 1) Make sure to clear all advising and other bars prior to April 19th. If these… read more
SSD Insider April 2021
April is Autism Awareness/Acceptance month. For the month of April, Longhorn TIES would like to highlight the voices of Autistic and neurodiverse students on campus! We want to highlight your voices in our social media posts, faculty and staff education/training, or in other ways to promote an inclusive campus. If… read more
Meet Lois Ford LaBauve Scholarship Recipient Ellie Gilchrist
Ellie Gilchrist, a humanities honors/business communications sophomore, is the recipient of the 2020-21 Lois Ford LaBauve Scholarship, an award given to outstanding students with disabilities. Read on to learn more about her love of reading and writing—and how this “new normal” of remote learning has set her on a path… read more
SSD Insider March 2021
Meet our New Staff! SSD is excited to announce we have hired Stavonna Bello, John McLaughlin and Chris Pinzone as our new Disabilities Services Coordinators. Read their bios on our website. Students will be receiving an email within the next few weeks from their new Coordinator. Alumni Stories: Visible… read more
Spring 2021: Meet the New SSD Staff!
SSD is excited to welcome three new Disabilities Services Coordinators to our team! Meet our new staff members below. Stavonna Bello Stavonna Bello is an undergraduate and graduate alumnus of UT Austin. She has most recently completed her Master’s degree in Counselor Education and worked as a Teaching Assistant, Graduate… read more
