The 10th Annual Day of Giving

Make education accessible to all!

The Office of Accessible Education is undertaking the mission of the Inclusive Excellence Division in shifting the narrative towards the holistic support of all students on campus. We recognize that disability is an integral aspect of a student’s identity that needs to be acknowledged, embraced, and supported. Moving beyond compliance to create a transformational experience for disabled students is a driving factor of how our office envisions bringing disability identity and culture to the forefront within SCU’s community. 

We have three major priorities: 

1. Executive Functioning/Academic coach 
2. The development and creation of a Disability Cultural Center 
3. A sensory space

For the academic coach we want to hire a full time executive functioning coach that supports the transition of neurodivergent students into the rigorous atmosphere of collegiate education. 

For the creation of a Disability Cultural Center, we hope to create both a physical space and professional position (Director of the Disability Cultural Center) to foster an education, acceptance, and inclusion of disability culture on campus. This will allow for disabled students, faculty, and staff to benefit from having a dedicated safe space to grow in community as well as a programmatic element that will drive the growth of the broader SCU’s understanding and awareness around disability culture. 

For the creation of a sensory space, we want to provide a dedicated space for students on the autism spectrum as well as students with a variety of other sensory-oriented disability profiles to use for management of those needs in a private and comfortable manner.