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

[Arielle Silverman]

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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