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In an effort to ensure that NIU’s learning environment is inclusive and accessible to all students, Amylin Hendrix-Ziegelbauer joins the Huskie team as a closed-caption editor to serve students who are deaf or hard of hearing as well as anyone who may benefit from closed-captioning services.  “I’m looking forward to working in a position that allows...
NIU students, faculty and staff recently worked together to ensure NIU students with visual disabilities would be able to independently do laundry in the residence hall laundry rooms. It was a campus-wide effort to be proud of, say all involved. To do laundry in the residence halls, students swipe their OneCards and then choose a...
Being a successful employee or student may require a little extra support, especially if you have a disability. There should be no shame in requesting assistance that helps you to succeed. NIU offers many resources to employees and students with qualified disabilities to provide reasonable accommodations, equitable access, modifications or adjustments as determined necessary. On...
Jennifer Pippen
Jennifer Pippen has been named director of the Disability Resource Center. Pippen has earned two master’s degrees – a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Trinity International University in Deerfield, and a master’s degree in leadership in higher education from North Central College in Naperville. She succeeds Tom Thompson who served as the interim director...
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NIU’s Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities has good news for campus community persons with disabilities who want to attend this weekend’s Corn Fest activities in downtown DeKalb. TransVAC is offering free rides Saturday, Aug. 31 and Sunday, Sept. 1, to the elderly and those persons with disabilities. To be placed on the routing list,...
Melanie Tucker Thompson, acting assistant vice president for Student Services, and Randall Ward, acting director of the Disability Resource Center, address disability issues daily in the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management. But their efforts are not limited to NIU alone. Tucker Thompson and Ward are also involved in the Association for Higher Education...
Randall Ward
Randall Ward, acting director of the NIU Disability Resource Center, has been appointed to the Documentation Subcommittee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education Disabilities Advocacy Committee. The IBHE created the Disabilities Advocacy Committee in 2004 to advise the board and to help Illinois institutions of higher education better serve students with disabilities. Committee members,...
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Military Student Services and the Disability Resource Center anticipate an increased number of service animals on campus this fall in relation to students with invisible disabilities. People experience multiple invisible disabilities, one being traumatic stress; the International Association of Traumatic Stress reports that approximately 60 percent of Americans will experience a traumatic event at some...
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