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AAS focuses on facilitating opportunities to stimulate and create a barrier-free environment, eliminating academic, social, and physical obstacles which impede students’ access to a higher education. We actively work to:
AAS can provide an wide array of services, dependent on student needs. Some of our most common accommodations are:
If you have questions about services we provide, or do not find information about services you may need, please contact our office or schedule a Q&A session via Penji.
All students must log into AIM at the beginning of each semester and choose accommodations from your pre-approved list. If changes need to be made to your accommodations, you must schedule a meeting with your AAS Counselor. To ensure accommodations are set and faculty letters are sent in a timely manner, request your accommodations as early as possible in the academic term. When AAS sends the accommodation letter to faculty, you will also receive a copy of the letter in your A-State smail account.
General accommodations:
Note-taking services:
To obtain golf cart transportation due to a temporary injury or permanent disability/condition, click on the link provided below to submit a Transportation Request Form. This form must be completed for services to be facilitated!
Services are approved based on capacity and need.
Golf Cart Transportation Application*
*If this form is not accessible to you, please contact our office for further assistance.
**Please read the Golf Cart Transportation Policy before obtaining transportation services.
On occasion, student(s) with a learning disability or other disabilities that present significant learning difficulties, may encounter a course(s) which the student is not capable of passing due to his/her disability condition(s). These courses are usually part of the core curriculum in the student's choice of major and are highly protected by accreditation criteria/requirements. When a situation arises where a student has given their "best effort" in a particular subject, but continually struggles to pass or even fails the course because of their disability, some type of action needs to be in place to assist these students. To this end, the office of Access & Accommodation Services offers course substitutions to students who encounter this problem. Please see the course substitution policy and application by clicking here for more information.
AAS recruits volunteer note-takers who are willing to share a copy of their notes with a student with a disability.
To Volunteer:
For any questions, please contact our Note-Taking Coordinator, Dominique White.
Arkansas State University has adopted an Internal grievance procedure providing for prompt and equitable resolution of complaints alleging any action prohibited by the U.S. Department of Justice regulations while implementing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Title II states, in part, that "no otherwise qualified disabled individual shall, solely due to such disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits for, or be subjected to discrimination" in programs or activities sponsored by a public entity. Complaints should be submitted to the Director of Access & Accommodation Services, coordinator of ADA and 504 compliance efforts for A-State students. Grievance forms are available both on the web (please click here to download the PDF) and in the Access & Accommodation Services office.
Process and Procedure for Filing a Complaint:
Reconsideration Process:
If complainant requests a reconsideration of the case in instances where they are dissatisfied with the resolution determined by the Access & Accommodation Services Committee, a written request for reconsideration should be submitted to the Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Community Engagement. The decision of the Vice Chancellor will be final.
The right of a person to a prompt and equitable resolution of the complaint filed hereunder shall not be impaired by the person's pursuit of other remedies such as filing of an ADA complaint with the responsible federal department or agency. Use of the grievance procedure is not a prerequisite to the pursuit of other remedies. The entire process shall be constituted to protect the substantive rights of interested persons to meet appropriate due process standards and to assure that Arkansas State University complies with the ADA and implementing regulations.
