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About the Yang-Tan Institute

For over 60 years, the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Institute on Employment and Disability in the Cornell University ILR School has conducted a unique combination of research and outreach. With a mission of advancing the inclusion and full participation of people with disabilities in the workplace and community, our research, training, and technical resources expand knowledge about disability inclusion, leading to meaningful change.

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Our Work

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Our Areas of Focus

Benefits planning

School-to-work transition

Disability inclusion at work

Systems-based work & collaboration

Emerging work & innovation

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YTIOnline Learning

Learn from YTI’s experts to improve your knowledge and gain practical skills in benefits planning and employment services for people with disabilities. Earn professional credentials and certificates though a wide variety of courses and classes, both in-person and virtually.

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Our Impact

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Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

Jennifer D. Brooks and Sarah von Schrader investigated how access to remote work for people with disabilities has been affected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Best Paper Award Won by Yang-Tan Researchers

How Social Security Can Stop Penalizing Workers with Disabilities: Op-Ed

An op-ed in The Hill recommends improvements for how the Social Security Administration manages overpayments to workers with disabilities.
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How Social Security Can Stop Penalizing Workers with Disabilities: Op-Ed

Wendy Strobel Gower Challenges Assumptions at Work

With a professional mission of challenging assumptions about limits around disability, Wendy Strobel Gower is the new Thomas P. Golden Executive Director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability.
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Wendy Strobel Gower Challenges Assumptions at Work

Our News & Events

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Building Pathways to Collaborative Partnerships to Support Successful Pre-Employment Transition Services

Free webinar about pre-employment transition services (Pre-ETS)
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Building Pathways to Collaborative Partnerships to Support Successful Pre-Employment Transition Services

From Awareness to Action: Suicide Prevention in the Workplace

Free webinar about implementing suicide prevention in the workplace
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From Awareness to Action: Suicide Prevention in the Workplace

Is That a Service Animal? What Rights Apply Where

Free webinar focusing on regulations for services animals
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Is That a Service Animal? What Rights Apply Where

YTI Newsletter - January 2026

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It’s not possible to determine what somebody can achieve based on some disability or diversity characteristic that they have. Everyone has a right to participate in society to the best of their ability.
– WENDY STROBEL GOWER, THOMAS P. GOLDEN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Yang-Tan Institute
ILR School, Cornell University
201 Dolgen Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 

Phone: 607-255-7727 
Email: ilr_yti@cornell.edu

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