[DSOSU] Fwd: [SDS Members] CDC Guidelines for Opening Businesses During Pandemic

[Margaret Price]

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From: Wendy Harbour <wendy at ahead.org>
Date: Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:49 AM
Subject: [SDS Members] CDC Guidelines for Opening Businesses During Pandemic
To: dream at ahead-listserve.org <dream at ahead-listserve.org>,
hbcudisability at ahead-listserve.org <hbcudisability at ahead-listserve.org>,
sds-discuss at lists.disstudies.org <sds-discuss at lists.disstudies.org>,
Disabled Student Services in Higher Education <DSSHE-L at listserv.buffalo.edu>


CNN has published a link to the CDC guidelines for reopening business and
K-12 schools (at
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/cdc-draft-reopening-guidelines/index.html).
It’s noteworthy that there’s nothing for colleges and universities.
However, some of you may appreciate reading suggestions for other places,
as you return to school, open disability services offices, begin teaching,
or prepare to send your child to college as a freshman this Fall.  FYI,
too, the draft does not seem to be accessible to people with disabilities
(although I may be wrong).  If you need assistance accessing it, I
recommend contacting CNN, but the NCCSD can also assist (NCCSD at ahead.org).



And this is just my person opinion (I’m not speaking for NCCSD or AHEAD),
but I’ll take this opportunity to send out a friendly reminder.  Be sure to
contact your disability services provider or Human Resources Department now
if you think you’ll be unable to do in-person courses or work this Summer
or Fall (or beyond that).  You may be in high-risk groups or experiencing
long-term complications from COVID-19, or have difficulties returning to
campus for other disability-related reasons.  Better to set up
accommodations now, while policies are still in flux (especially if you’re
requesting accommodations for the first time).  I’m concerned because many
institutions seem to be overlooking the needs of students and employees
with disabilities.  Another bonus for talking about services now is that
you may prompt your campus to think about everyone else who will need
services, too.





Take care,

Wendy Harbour



P.S.  The CDC guidance is not the same as guidance from the White House,
which is available at
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/politics/read-guidelines-for-opening-america/index.html.
I haven’t forwarded that to anyone because it does not have detailed
guidance for schools or colleges.







The NCCSD welcomes your opinion - please tell us about your experience with
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Wendy S. Harbour, Ed.D.

Director, National Center for College Students with Disabilities (NCCSD)

Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD)

wendy at ahead.org

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I acknowledge, with respect, the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe and the Mdewakanton
Dakota at Kaposia, the Indigenous people on whose ancestral lands I work
and live while in North Carolina and Minnesota.


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