Since 1974, the Computing Research Association’s (CRA’s) Taulbee Survey has polled its academic members, computing departments and information schools from the United States and Canada about their faculty and students. Since 2021 they have collected departmental data about disabled students who receive accommodations authorized by their university’s disability services for students offices.
Nationally, about 8% of students receive official accommodations. In 2023, 69 out of 176 departments reported this disability data with 4.3% of undergraduate students receiving accommodations. Of the 69 that reported the data 40% reported zero students receiving disability accommodations.
In October 2024, I wrote an article for the CRA’s Computing Research News about the disability data collected over the past three years. The article also describes strategies for departments who either did not report disability data or reported zero students with accommodations to obtain this data from their university’s Office of Institutional Research (OIR).
I encourage fellow academics to read my article and share it with your chair and faculty in your department who respond to the Taulbee survey each year. The 2024 Taulbee survey has been sent to departments with a deadline of January 24, 2025 for submission of data.