Accessibility

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

Guides for creating accessible content

• Making Content Accessible
• Reasonable Accommodations: A Faculty Guide for Teaching Students with Disabilities (pdf)

Neurodiversity Hub

The Neurodiversity Hub is a newly developed faculty resource bank and collegial discussion forum. It was developed on the Microsoft Teams platform by Dr. Sally Izquierdo and Neurodiversity Support Fellows, Kartika Kumari and Gloria Livai to provide Queens College faculty and staff up to date information and resources to support neurodivergent students.  

Staff and faculty members can enter the Neurodiversity Hub by using the access code qazm3d5 on Microsoft Teams or by accessing the link directly and logging in with a CUNYFirst account. They can also fill out the Neurodiversity Hub interest form.  

For more information about the Neurodiversity Hub or faculty workshops, contact Sally Izquierdo at sally.izquierdo@qc.cuny.edu.