This is the third year of the Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, which honors the advocacy of the late Gary Corcoran, a wheelchair user from the age of 19 who worked to improve accessibility of housing, transit and public venues across Phoenix.
I break down the best of student newspaper coverage of disability from last year. The University of Michigan had the best disability coverage of 2024.
As mental health issues and construction dominated campus life in 2023, Technician, NC State’s student newspaper, embarked on in-depth coverage of how those issues were affecting students.
A review of the best disability coverage in liberal arts college newspapers from 2023.
I break down the best student newspaper coverage of disability from 2023.
June 9, 2019. Ali Stroker wins Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. An actor, singer, and wheelchair user, Ali Stroker has been a trailblazer for disability representation on the stage. She was the first wheelchair user to graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department at New York University. In 2015, she was the first wheelchair user to appear on Broadway, starring as Anna in the musical, Spring Awakening. For her performance as Ado Annie Carnes in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!, Stroker became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony Award in 2019.
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Being Young and Disabled
By Noah Griffth, Auburn University
I Was a "Student of Concern"
By Kate Jackson, Rutgers University
In My Moment of Distress
By Anonymous, Temple University