Dr Kimberly Douglass, Graduate Education Expert
Specializations: administrative processes, technological systems, policies and practices to support the graduate student life cycle; graduate student disability services; services for graduate students with “invisible” disabilities
Founding: The Center for Graduate Student Disability Services
I support institutions of higher learning in delivering a 21st Century education to their disabled graduate students, throughout the graduate student life-cycle. If you are an administrator, faculty member or staff member who works with graduate students and need support for you and/or your colleagues, book time for introductions here. If you are a graduate student or thinking about becoming a graduate student and need guidance, book time for introductions here.
My work helps deliver robust graduate education, which in 2024, is important to the international reputation of your institution. The work I do improves graduate student outcomes, enhances faculty and staff capabilities in working with graduate students, strengthens academic program performance on program reviews, strengthens academic program performance on professional accreditation reviews and fortifies institutions’ standing with its accrediting agencies.
Results from Professional Development Curriculum – Neurodivergent Clients
Check out some of my offerings
Disability Services for Neurodivergent Undergrad and Graduate Students: What is an Ought to be Offered
This catalog describes in brief and in detail 101 services that are currently offered or should be offered to Neurodivergent Undergraduate and Graduate Students by disability services/student access offices on college and university campuses. The catalog includes information about the modes (online, face-to-face or both) and physical environments in which these services would be impactful. Also, it includes information about the students’ physiological conditions that create the need for services.
This catalog is unique in that it applies specifically to the resource needs of Neurodivergent Students.
Disability Services Basics: for Neurodivergent College Students
9 audio recordings, each less than 9:15 minutes
These recording start with the basics: what disability services offices do, how to request services, what to expect, how much support students get, how to make the most of services.
Most importantly, these recordings show you how to evaluate services for Neurodivergent Students in particular.
These recordings provide a straight forward explanation of how disability services work on college and university campuses. You can apply the framework provided here to any institution. The recordings also include practical tips for undergraduate, graduate and professional school.
For Your Programming
Below are examples of topics I could address at your conferences, advisory board meetings, administrative meetings and events, faculty meetings and events, staff meetings and events, student organization meetings and events and class meetings.
What the disabled graduate student experience says about higher education
What are we even doing here? The meaning of Academia in 2024
Why graduate students are so lonely
Why graduate students try to hide their disabilities
What Long Covid means for graduate schools
Graduating disabled scholars
Unsupported graduate students become unsupportive faculty and staff.
Why higher education should care about AuDHD
“Invisible” disabilities in higher education
Graduate services profile of an institution
What Long Covid means to higher education
Support beyond the graduate school classroom
Graduate school and “invisible” disabilities
Decolonizing neurodivergence
Power constructs
Leadership vs management
Why adults need to play
Graduate school as an embodied experience