DeKALB – A captioning service offered by NIU allows students with hearing disabilities to participate in classes alongside their peers.
The Communication Access Realtime Translation service (CART) is offered through the Disability Resource Center....
DeKALB – The Student Government Association has passed a bill that will allow more money to be given to student organizations this semester.
The bill will move $30,000 from SGA’s executive funding, used to fund campus-wide initiatives, to supplemental...
Students go to college to plan for the future, and after graduation, all students should have equal opportunities for a good career, even those with disabilities.Only 18.7 percent of people with a physical or mental disability were employed in 2017, contrasting...
Katy Whitelaw, a member of the Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities, discussed topics about students with disabilities Thursday in Atgeld Hall.
NIU should make its buildings more disability friendly by updating old facilities and fixing elevators. Also, students should become more aware of how to support fellow students with disabilities.The Disability Resource Center makes sure students with...
Having proper accessibility is necessary for all students with disabilities to succeed academically in an environment that is comfortable.The Disability Resource Center helps make sure students are able to receive the accommodations they need. According...
The Faculty Senate voted to revise syllabus requirements, endorsed a pension resolution and talked budget concerns at Wednesday’s meeting.After a presentation by Greg Long, professor and Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities chair, the...
Students can be accommodated if they have a disability, though not all professors provide accessibility statements on their syllabuses.Greg Long, health and human services professor, said he collects his student’s syllabuses to see if they have an accessibility...
It would be great to have the power to turn invisible. I could mess with people and they’d never know it was me pranking them.As it turns out, it isn’t so fun to have a disease which does exactly that. This week is Invisible Illness Awareness Week,...
The Center for Access-Ability Resources has changed its name to the Disability Resource Center, according to an NIU Today article. The center changed its name in response to the growing number of students with a disability, the article stated. The name...
