[nabs-l] Good community colleges in the midwest?

Arielle Silverman arielle71 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 23 00:05:22 UTC 2013


Why do you need to take more courses at the community college besides
the one free course you got? Does your university not offer summer
courses?
Arielle

On 4/22/13, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried that first.  The book I need isn't available on bookshare,
> NLS, etc, so I need the disability office to put it into alternative
> format.  As of now they're the most cooperative part of the community
> college; filling out all their paperwork was the hard part, but they
> received it today and the woman who called to schedule an intake
> appointment, the last step in getting set up, was probably the most
> helpful person I've talked to so far.
> I mentioned my blindness because I needed to make sure that the tech
> support people would be able to make sure all the online stuff is
> accessible.  At the university I attend now, if something isn't
> accessible we've set it up so that I can email tech support, tell them
> what the issue is, and they'll do what they need to to make the site
> more Jaws-friendly, upload a text-only version of a PDF to the site so
> I can access online readings, alter the code in the web site so that I
> can use it, etc.  I wanted to make sure that this college would have
> the capability of doing that too since my initial encounters with the
> disabilities office and what they could do for tactile imaging weren't
> that great.  Since I plan to take community college courses completely
> online, I felt like I needed to make sure that things would be
> screenreader friendly and that if they weren't the tech support or
> disability office people would be able to fix it.
> I didn't mention it to the transient student person, and my
> conversations with them have been the most frustrating thus far.
> Since I seem to have gotten all the accessibility issues taken care
> of, that's the one hurdle I have to get over, although considering
> I've been working on all this for one class since January and I've
> gotten the run around between departments while trying to figure out
> the accessibility issues and figure out who my advisor is and who I
> even talk to to get my credits transfered, I don't think I'll go back
> to this community college in the future.  I plan to just use the
> scholarship I have there and then to look into other schools for
> future summer courses.
>
>
> On 4/22/13, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Kaiti,
>> I don't know about specific schools in the Midwest, but I'm thinking
>> you can take social psychology over the summer without signing up for
>> disability services or even telling anyone in the transfer office that
>> you're blind. Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best ones.
>> Email your professor to find out what textbook they're using for the
>> class, get it from BookShare or Learning Ally, then meet with your
>> professor to work out testing accommodations and that's it, you're
>> done and all you have to worry about is getting the credit
>> transferred. Unless I'm missing something, why does your disability
>> have to be a factor at all when you're trying to get bureaucratic
>> stuff done so your credits will transfer? Can you work out your credit
>> transfer without saying anything at all about blindness?
>> Arielle
>>
>> On 4/22/13, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm having a heck of a time getting set up with a community college
>>> for summer courses.  I did a tech prep program in high school and
>>> received a scholarship for a free three credit hour class at this
>>> particular school.  Over the past few weeks I've had a lot of trouble
>>> getting set up there with disability services and transient student
>>> services.  I managed to skirt around the disability issue (I changed
>>> the course I planned to take from human anatomy to social psychology
>>> because I was worried the disability people wouldn't be able to
>>> produce the tactile diagrams) but the transient student person who is
>>> my advisor isn't helping much, and overall I'm finding a lot of the
>>> people I talk to to be extremely rude and not helpful... I get the run
>>> around a lot... get automatically transfered to the ds office no
>>> matter what I'm asking the person on the phone to tell me if I just
>>> bring up disability services or that I'm blind... and it's very
>>> difficult to get simple information about documents making it through
>>> the mail to them and getting to the right person and the like.  They
>>> seem to be having a lot of trouble accomodating my multiple attributes
>>> which make me a non-traditional student, (something other than
>>> learning disabled, attending a 4-year school and not going there as my
>>> main school, already enrolled because of the tech prep program but not
>>> actually a transcripted student since I haven't taken courses there
>>> yet).  It's also ffrustrating for me because the college I'm coming
>>> from is much more organized and the people are much more helpful.
>>> (They'll set up automatic generated emails to let you know documents
>>> were received, are very helpful on the phones, and are pretty much a
>>> total contrast to the community college I'm trying to get into.  My
>>> university has definitely spoiled me.
>>>
>>> I fully intend to use this scholarship, even if I never go back to
>>> this community college again because there is no sense in letting a
>>> free class go to waste.  However, as my original plans for school
>>> involved taking courses over each summer I am wondering if anyone goes
>>> to or has attended a good community college in the midwest.  I'm in
>>> southern Ohio so if anyone has attended another Ohio, Kentucky,
>>> Indiana, community colleges and had success with their disability
>>> services, transfering credits back to a 4-year school, or both, please
>>> let me know.  (I plan to look into the colleges in my city as well,
>>> but I'm just trying to get a broader scope of what might be out there
>>> because I've gotten some mixed reviews on the community colleges
>>> around me from sighted students and have no idea what their disability
>>> services are like yet.  I've also heard from sighted students that
>>> this particular school is awesome and as a disabled student I'm
>>> finding that to not really be the case for me, so I'm also hesitant to
>>> take the word of sighted students who don't necessarily have to be as
>>> in depth in setting up logistics for their schooling.
>>>
>>> Any feedback would be awesome.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kaiti
>>>
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> Kaiti
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