Michael Mathis wasn’t satisfied with the career options available to him after receiving his high school diploma.
“I was the manager at Foot Action, selling shoes like Al Bundy,” he said.
When the store closed five years later, Mathis switched jobs.
“Then I worked in a factory,” he said. “I was a helper. That wasn’t fun.”
Mathis, a senior […]

Diane Nelson Bryen will leave her post as executive director of Temple’s Institute on Disabilities in June after more than 15 years in the role, the university announced earlier this week.
She will be replaced by David T. Mitchell, formerly the first permanent director of the Ph.D. in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, the […]