Court finds intra-campus travel accommodations necessary for equal access

Abstract

As disability services offices increasingly serve students who seek to modify academic requirements — attendance and deadline modifications, so-called memory aids for closed book exams, course substitutions for mathematics and foreign language requirements, emotional support animals, and roommate-free housing accommodations — it's easy to forget that the Americans with Disabilities Act also obligates schools to provide intra-campus travel accommodations to students with mobility impairments. Students who cannot travel independently on campus face barriers to access that have literally nothing to do with academic requirements.