[nabs-l] College Expenses that Blind Students Encounter.

[Glenn III]

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Regarding Munawar; thanks, that’s a great example. I find it interesting,
they used the credit hours as the rationale for how many hours to pay for.
Most schools don’t explain what credit hours mean, so only using heuristics
(that is, inferring from experience), it doesn’t represent the time of
study, composing essays nor, of course, reading. The credit hours seems
only to represent the in-class lecture time that the professor provides
teaching service to students (usually 3 credit hours are Tuesday, Thursday
1.5 hour classes, M,W,F, 1hr 10 minutes, or one day per week 3 and a half
hours, with a half hour break; ie.: however you slice it, three hours a
week of face-time from the professor, but reading hours, studying hours
etc. are unrelated to credit hours.

It’s good to hear Christina’s school has a more realistic assessment of
equal access (as in equal time, after all, what student ever reads a couple
hundred weekly pages or required course text in 3 hours?). You may try to
appeal to the school with the logic of what credit hours typically
represent, and it may help to see if your local NFB affiliate has an
advocacy committee who may help you with that, if it’s a big issue for any
students here who encounter something similar.

Thanks for the example.



To Gerardo; that is a very different experience – though I know even in the
US, I’ve known some who (for whatever reasons) ended up having to take
similar measures for themselves. I would certainly mention in my
presentation that students studying abroad have to be aware that rules and
expectations will often be local.

Thanks for wishing me luck.
-Glenn Moore III
State Secretary,
National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
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