Services for Students with Disabilities
Last updated on 8/8/2008This page describes the accomodations we provide students with disabilities and concludes with the text of an announcement that we ask you to read to your classes during the first week of the semester. Please feel free to copy and paste any of this text, including the announcement (with blanks filled in), to your syllabi.
Memorandum
TO: Baruch Faculty Members
FROM: James McCarthy, Provost
RE: Services for Students with Disabilities
The beginning of the semester is the time to consider the accommodations that will be required in your classes by students with disabilities. Both Federal law and Baruch's concern for students require that we serve the needs of students with disabilities without compromising the content of courses or our academic standards for these and all Baruch students.
The support needed by students with disabilities usually involves simple accommodations, such as allowing tape recorders in class, allowing extra time for examinations, providing a list of reading material in time for students who are visually impaired to arrange for braille or taped transcriptions, and facing classes directly to facilitate lip reading by students who are hard of hearing. Students with disabilities may require special test administration facilities to provide for readers, typewriters, or tape recorders. Departments should try to provide necessary space and personnel for these purposes, but if necessary please call on Ms. Barbara Sirois, Director of the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (646-312-4590 or Barbara_Sirois@baruch.cuny.edu) to arrange for use of the centralized test administration services. Ms. Sirois may also be contacted for advice with respect to any other requests for accommodations.
It is extremely important that you communicate to students your availability to help them meet their special needs. The best way to accomplish this is to make a public announcement to your classes. To help you with this communication, a brief announcement is printed on the back of this page, which should be read to each of your classes during the first week of the semester.
Any student who wishes to file a complaint of failure to make reasonable accommodations may do so by contacting Dean John Dugan, Jr., the College ADA Coordinator (646-312-3320). Any student who believes that he or she has been discriminated against based on a disability may file a complaint with Carmen Pedrogo, the College Affirmative Action Officer (212-802-2866).
Announcement
Baruch College provides reasonable accommodations and modifications for students with disabilities to ensure that no student with a disability is denied the benefits of, is excluded from participation in, or otherwise is subjected to discrimination under the education program or activity operated by the College because of the absence of educational auxiliary aids for students with disabilities. Arrangements for adapting class procedures without compromising course content and standards may take time. Therefore, students who require accommodations or modifications should speak with me as soon as possible.
I am available for you to talk with me before or after this class or during my office hours which are on _______________________ from ________________ to ______________ in the ______________________ building, Room ___________.
In order to receive services, you must
register with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities.
Documentation is necessary for every disability. For more
information concerning services for students with disabilities,
please contact Barbara Sirois, Director of the Office of Services
for Students with Disabilities, Vertical Campus Building,
One Bernard Baruch Way, 2nd floor, Room 2-270, phone number:
646-312-4590.
