Author: Swasti Singhai | The Daily Californian

California Governor Newsom signs a bill into law at his desk. Photo by California Governor under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

UC Berkeley | Newsom approves bill establishing disability access and compliance training

The senate resolution highlighted that in a DSC survey, more than 30% of disabled UC Berkeley student respondents said they were denied an accommodation, and more than 50% of respondents said professors indicated “reluctance” or a “begrudging attitude” toward such requests — statistics that Potgieter hopes will change with training.