CUNY’s faculty remain the University’s most vital resource in ensuring reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities. Faculty who continue to deliver course content via distance learning modalities, are asked to consider the following overarching principles and key resources:
- Under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CUNY colleges are still required to provide equal access to our University’s academic programs – even in a distance learning environment
- Campus Offices of Disability Services (ODS) continue to serve as key sources of technical assistance and support to faculty in determining the best ways to reasonably accommodate students with disabilities in distance learning instructional modalities. For more information about services available to Queens College students, visit Office of Special Services for Students with Disabilities
- The barriers that exist at the intersection of a student’s disability and course design may be different from those posed by the original course format. Some accommodations students used before may no longer apply in distance learning formats, and some accommodations not considered previously may need to be considered now; we appreciate our faculty’s flexibility and collaboration with ODS staff and students with disabilities themselves to meet their accommodation needs in distance learning modalities
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