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Office Hours
Dobbs Ferry: Monday to Friday, 8 AM - 5 PM
Bronx & Manhattan-available by appointment only.
Visit us in Main Hall, Room 121 (Dobbs Ferry Campus)
Email us: accessibility@mercy.edu
To receive accommodations or services, first you must register with ACCESS. To register, you must do the following:
Fill out our Accessibility Application on the Student Health Portal. - click here for application
Submit supporting documentation to the Student Health Portal.
Meet with the Mercy ACCESSibility team to discuss your needs. A staff member will contact you in approximately 1 week to set-up a meeting. You will hear from either…
We also recommend that you review our Student Welcome Packet
After registering with ACCESS, you will get a form called an Accommodation Memo. The memo informs your professors that you are registered with ACCESS and lists your accommodations. It does NOT mention the specific disability, and you are not obligated to disclose that information to your professor.
Accommodation Memos are semester specific and are only valid for the term that it was issued. To activate your accommodations each semester, you must request a new Accommodation Memo from ACCESS.
Don't forget to present an updated memo to your professors EACH academic term. You should do this within the first 1-2 weeks of the academic term.
Have your professor review the memo and sign at the bottom. Once you have your signed memos, you can scan and email them to accessibility@mercy.edu
Information on ACCESS-VR for College Students
Click here to be directed to the ACCESS-VR website.
As a faculty member, it is important to know your role in providing academic accommodations, policies, and procedures.
As a staff member, review some helpful information when working with students with disabilities.
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Accommodations | Collaboration | Consultation | Educational Support Services
The mission of the Office of ACCESSibility is to collaborate with and empower students who have disabilities in order to coordinate support services, reasonable accommodations, and programs that enable equal access to an education and college life. ACCESS serves as a resource to other departments and colleagues and works to provide regular training opportunities, advisement, and consultation on equal access, compliance, delivery of equitable services, and universal design. Additionally, ACCESS provides opportunities and resources that will facilitate the development of self-advocacy, self-efficacy, and adaptive skills in students to overcome barriers a disability may present.
40 scholarship opportunities for students with disabilities, along with a set of valuable resources and support groups to further help throughout their college and career journey. You can check out the full listing by clicking here.