Accessibility Affairs

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Our Mission

To make buildings, courses, and student life accessible to all students.

Campaigns

Testing for Learning Disabilities

Do you ever wonder if you have a learning disability? Over 350 students at OSU are registered as having a learning disability. These students have access to services such as note-taking, extended testing times, and tutoring through Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD). You might be eligible to receive these services as well, but you would have to pay $650 to get the documentation from an assessment agency in Corvallis. Our goal is to bring affordable assessment to OSU.

Left-Handed Desks

Left-handed students don’t consider themselves “disabled”, but they do face problems of inaccessibility. An uncomfortable desk can make it hard to concentrate during lecture or midterms. Jessica is one left-handed student who would like to see a little consistency in the location and numbers of lefty-handed desks.

Contact Jessica Calhoun { calhouje@onid.orst.edu

Signage

When there’s only one wheelchair accessible bathroom in a building, how do you find it? It should be easy to find facilities like bathrooms, ramps, and wheelchair lifts on campus. Our goal is to get the campus sign-maker to produce quality signs for the accessible facilities in each building.

Contact Travis Berge, Campaign Director for Accessible Signage { berget@onid.orst.edu

Maps

There is no comprehensive map of the accessible routes and facilities on campus. Accessible routes should be in a pamphlet and on the OSU map website.

Contact Melanie Linkem, Campaign Director for Accessible Maps { linkemm@onid.orst.edu

Milam Ramp

Students have complained that the entry ramp at Milam hall is steep and slippery in the winter. Our goal is to fix it.