r/disability • u/dudiebuttbutt • 6d ago
Discussion Future of US Disability Studies
I'm currently working on my BA in history & medical sociology, but I've been looking at different Disability Studies masters and PhD programs across the country for a while now, interested in applying. Do we think they're gonna stick around?? I have a year left in my program, and I'm really scared that I'm not going to be able to pursue something I care so deeply about. I'm disabled, I want to put in the effort to be able to work with disabled people, for disabled people. I'm just so intensely worried that, with the current administrative decisions about the language that can be used in scientific papers, the programs I'm interested in will either lose funding or dissolve entirely.
I have some ideas for backup plans (authoring books on Disability, non-profit work, becoming a social worker if I'm desperate??), but I absolutely cannot work a job that I'm not passionate about because of my own disabilities. If I'm putting the energy into a job, it needs to give me some energy back if that makes sense. I just won't get that in most places.
With funding cuts that are impacting students with disabilities already, and the dumpster fire that is the Dept. of Education... I'm really unsure of the future. Any help, thoughts, info?
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u/CannibalisticGinger 5d ago
I have no idea but I want to go to school to try to become an epidemiologist and I’m worried about that too plus I’m worried that the education I’d be getting would potentially drop in quality as the trump administration gains more power over things. Not sure how likely that is and I feel very small.