CORE VALUES
The Center operates under several core values, including:
- All people with disabilities are entitled to inclusive education, living, employment, and leisure opportunities.
- All people with disabilities have the right to live in their own communities and pursue their own lifestyles.
- People with disabilities should play a central role in the design, operation, and monitoring of the support they receive.
- All people in society share the responsibility to create inclusive communities.
- The work of creating inclusive communities and an open society is not essentially a matter of resources but how we think about people who have disabilities.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies is dedicated to the inclusion and equality of children and adults with disabilities throughout the University, the city of Syracuse, the nation, and the world. The Center promotes its mission of inclusion by developing and sponsoring academic programs and courses, conferences and publications, research and training programs, and public education and advocacy efforts on behalf of, and with, people with disabilities.