Investing in Abilities: Our Resolution
Because people with disabilities are now the fastest growing minority in the world, consisting of about 10 percent of the total population according to the World Health Organization's recent findings, and since this minority group is open to anyone to join (think of the potential results of slipping on bit of icy sidewalk or discovering during a routine physical that one has a debilitating disorder), we propose that individuals with disabilities be considered one of the minority groups at the University Michigan that would be included in the rubric of "diversity" and that would be granted appropriate and adequate funding through the 24-year-old organization known as the Council for Disability Concerns, a group of volunteers that oversees and is involved with all areas of special need across a broad spectrum: vision, hearing, mobility, learning, and other different modes of coping and adjusting to our mutual environment at the University of Michigan.
