As Bill Maher said in his show last night, “Just because you can buy a service dog harness for your chihuahua doesn’t make your chihuahua a service dog.”
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Was your student able to get a lottery number?
But those who need accommodations are given them for freshman year, which is the only year housing is guaranteed for all students. Now those with disabilities are being treated the same as all other students. If they get housing through the lottery, they will get the accommodations if they are available, just like they will in the world, like if the hotel room is available or the cruise ship cabin or at an apartment building. These housing accommodations are available in the communities around campus and then the student will have to get to campus (may be closer than a dorm to the classroom buildings) and they will have the help of campus transportation or community transportation.
Perhaps the office of disability services can provide accommodations for the students they serve - places to rest during the day, a fridge to hold meals and medications and a place to prepare them, whatever other benefit having an on campus room provided the student during the day (a place to be dropped off by transportation, a place to store books during the day). Students who really need it would use it, and those who don’t will figure out how to get back and forth from off campus housing.
I do think it is unfortunate that this was announced so late, and that those who are upperclassmen might be at a big disadvantage to arrange housing for next year. Maybe they’ll get lucky and win a lottery spot. I really believe that there must have been an abuse of the system because I don’t think Purdue just decided to do this to be mean.
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That comment was meant to express support. I am very much in favor of reasonable accomodations.
Agreed. Changes should be grandfathered so that students who chose this school based on existing disability accommodations don’t have rug pulled out from under them. Not all disability offices are the same - kids who need it likely factor the school’s disability office/accommodations and reputation into their decision.
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I took it that way. I’m not sure Purdue is being unsupportive and the disability office might be a great one, but someone in administration decided that housing beyond freshman year wouldn’t be guaranteed.
I agreed that the short notice might be a problem.
When schools make changes, it is going to affect those who are already there, be it dropping a major or an increase in tuition or dropping a sports team. It’s unfair to those who relied on those things when applying.
My insurance company made some changes to my plan during the year. When I asked why, I was told medicare required the changes and there was nothing they could do. Very unfair to me as I can’t make a change in the middle of the year.
Housing hasn’t been guaranteed after freshman year for at least 6 years, maybe longer but my D had a backup plan if she didn’t get a dorm sophomore year.
Not sure though if that was different for students with accommodations.
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That’s the whole discussion. Students with accommodations have been able to keep their housing (and it appears the same room) for their time at Purdue. Now they will have to go into the lottery and get room selection the same as other students. If they don’t get a lottery spot or don’t like their room choices, they’ll have to live off campus.
Is that true though? All four years? My d had a friend in her dorm who was blind with a seeing eye dog who didn’t stay on campus after sophomore year (and also had to switch rooms between freshman and sophomore years) and that was years ago now.
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