[nabs-l] public versus private universities

[Leonard Stamper]

Hello my name is Leonard Stamper  I am a junior massage therapist and I'll go to a private vocational school the Louisville school of massage therapy  since I have been at the school massage they have made every accommodation for me they could and they did it with no protest whatsoever as a matter of fact they have made things accessible to me that I did not even realize that I needed I believe they do it because they truly care  before then I was a student at Jefferson community and technical college here in Louisville Kentucky that you were very  they were very lazy they did not help Harley at all I always got some kind of protest or excuse about my accommodations so in my opinion I feel like I have gone better services at a private school that I did at a public school thank you  if you are deciding between a public college white private college I would suggest that you talk to students from both schools and get their opinions if they are disabled that would be even better thank you

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> On Feb 5, 2014, at 2:21 PM, "Zach Mason" <zmason.northwindsfarm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> 
> I'm a junior in high school, and as such, I'm beginning to look for a
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> college. The other day, a blind friend and I were talking about which
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> colleges we were checking out, and I mentioned Loyola, which is a private
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> Catholic university in New Orleans. My friend, whose mother is a professor
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> at Tulane, another private New Orleans school, said that it was very
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> difficult for blind people to attend private colleges because they weren't
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> as good as protecting textbooks and other necessary materials. He said in
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> general that private universities' disability services weren't as great as
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> those of public universities. I know this is true for post-secondary public
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> schools--they're more able to provide braille and technology than are
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> private schools--so I was wondering if it was the same with colleges. Also,
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> is there a list that ranks colleges' disability support? I know that
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> whenever we visit a college, we visit the DS office, but I also know that
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> those people are often trying to sell their school. So I was wondering if
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> there was any concrete resource I could use for this information. Any info
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> or comments would be super helpful and appreciated!
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> 
> 
> Yours sincerely,
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> Sophie Trist
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> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> 
> I have a B.S. from Cornell University. I unfortunately am limited to what
> little I've been able to learn from a few month's exposure to other blind
> students and graduates and my own experience. When I was picking my college
> I applied and was accepted to three colleges; Cornell, the University of New
> Hampshire and Pen State. I was intimidated by Pen State's size and wrote it
> off. I was very gung ho to go to UNH until I met the disabilities office.
> The department head at the time sat me down and started explaining the
> differences between accommodations for high school versus the accommodations
> for college. It was very off putting. From the meeting I left remembering
> more things the office couldn't do rather than could do. Cornell was an
> entirely different office. 
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> 
> 
> Rather than tell me what they couldn't do, they told me what they could do,
> or what they were willing to try. They were quite positive and very
> approachable. To make a long story short, UNH offered me a full scholarship,
> Cornell offered enough so I'd pay $10,000 a year. I picked Cornell. Cornell
> did have other things going for it, such as more resources and greater
> availability to funding, but the sales job the SDS staff did played a huge
> roll in my choosing Cornell. 
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> 
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> I even have a job after graduating, all be it at my home dairy farm. Now I
> am looking to get into graduate school. 
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> 
> 
> Zachary Mason
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> Assistant Shepherd and Young Stock Manager
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