Chair Joseph on adaptive technology for accessibility

How do CUNY leverage adaptive technology to ensure accessibility as well?

Well, I'm going to turn it over to our provost.

One of the big items that you'll see in our green sheet is additional support for all the work that we're doing with students with disabilities.

So go to the heart of that question.

But I'll let her talk about CUNY Accommodation and some of the things that we've been doing.

Thank you for the question.

We leverage and are exploring and are actually having quite a lot of fun with the adaptive technologies.

The new technologies are pretty sophisticated now.

We have each of the campuses, there are glasses that have an interpreter for those who are hard of hearing and we're exploring virtual reality and VR headsets.

But we have, we constantly meet the needs of every single student through accommodate, as we've mentioned before.

We have been able to expedite from the moment of request to accommodation granted.

Our goal was two weeks, and we met the goal and exceed that within two weeks.

Because we have access to some adaptive technology, we are able to provide that for our students.

And if we don't, we immediately meet the needs and find resources that are available.

So the wait is two weeks, and you can borrow among the university system across?

Absolutely.

In case you don't have it?

Correct.

Okay.