BROOKLYN COLLEGE–“CUNY Accommodate”, which launched on Jan. 2 for intended use in the spring 2025 semester, is a new platform with the purpose of managing student disability accommodations.
An announcement for the application from Sept. 4 mentions that CUNY Accommodate aligns with the goal to, “actively recruit and retain new cohorts of diverse students at every level of instruction and remove operational and societal barriers for entry and retention,” from CUNY’s strategic roadmap.
This roadmap includes a series of goals that CUNY set following the COVID-19 pandemic, and aims to, “create a strategic plan for CUNY that expands the frontiers of knowledge, accelerates our role as the nation’s greatest educational vehicle for equity and upward mobility, and amplifies the well-being of the citizens of the City and State of New York” as per their website.
The announcement also states, “The introduction of a centralized disability management system marks another step towards removing barriers and enhancing the experience for students with disabilities, bringing together faculty, DSO staff and students to ensure that all students can succeed.”
