Katie Rose Guest Pryal is an adjunct professor of law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and an expert in mental health and disability. Her books include A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education (University Press of Kansas, 2024) and Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education (Blue Crow 2017). Learn more at her Substack and her website, katieroseguestpryal.com.
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Advice
Here are steps that will both help your struggling students and lessen the burden on you.
Advice
Whether or not you disclose your developmental disorder, knowing about it may actually help you thrive on the job.
Advice
In negotiating accommodations, we need more communication and less suspicion.
Advice
It’s easier than you think to make your classroom welcoming and accessible to students with autism and other diagnoses.
The Review | Opinion
Punitive attendance politics and inflexible deadlines make students’ lives needlessly difficult.
The Review | Opinion
Post-Dobbs, weak medical privacy endangers students — and the rest of us.
The Review | Opinion
The end of Roe will worsen the campus mental-health crisis.
The Review | Opinion
This insidious practice must stop. Now.
Advice
Don’t write for the general public to “be productive.” Do it because, in this anxiety-producing year, it will help you or someone else to make sense of our senseless times.
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How to decide which mainstream publications to pitch your essay to, and how to ask about the money.