Students with accommodation requests should go to The Center for Accessibility Resources & Disability Services at Barnard (CARDS). CARDS offers housing and academic accommodations for students with qualified documentation. The types of accommodations vary based on the person's need. CARDS engages with interactive process with students based upon each student’s specific situation. As a result, CARDS may implement an individualized accommodation plan for students to allow them access to their educational program(s). Students will work with a dedicated coordinator to implement their accommodation plan.

• CU Sign is Columbia University and Barnard College's sign language club. It hosts weekly meetings for free classes that include American Sign Language vocabulary, activities and discussions about deaf culture, all led by an ASL instructor.
• Columbia Student Disability Network is an affinity group for the disability community and its allies. Columbia Student Disability Network values disability justice, inclusion, and connection. This is open to Barnard students. 
• Spoons is a disability justice discussion and action group! During weekly meetings (each an hour and fifteen minutes in length), students gather to discuss current events impacting disabled communities, support one another in navigating campus life, build friendship and community, and consider strategies for challenging ableism on campus. The group is convened by Multicultural Affairs but led foremost by the interests of student participants.
• CARDS Student Group is a Barnard student-led group launching Spring 2024.

 Accessibility Week is an annual week of community-wide programming focused on disability inclusion and social justice. The Office of DEI and the Diversity Council are excited to invite all Barnard community members to Accessibility Week in March of every year. 

Click here for the Accessibility Week 2024 lineup of events! 

Check out the campus accessibility campus map below.

*Construction updates webpage TBD Winter 2024.

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In-person:

• Planning an in-person accessible event at Barnard. If you have any accessibility requests for a physical or digital event at Barnard, please fill out the form below. If you have any further questions, please contact Barnard's Center for Accessibility Resources & Disability Services at cards@barnard.edu or (212) 854-4634.
• Planning an accessible event information from Columbia University

Digital:

• If you are a Barnard community member and have an accessibility request for a digital event, please submit the CEP’s Accessibility Request Form.
• Check out this presentation, Intro to Digital Accessibility, from Accessibility Week 2023, led by Elana Altman (IMATS). Many of us have heard that we should make our social media posts, websites, and PDFs "accessible," but what exactly does that mean? In this introductory workshop, we'll explore what digital accessibility is and why it's important. We'll also share three strategies that you can apply to make all your digital content - from Instagram posts to Canvas files and everything in between - more accessible.
• Here is some helpful information from U of M on digital accessibility

For students: Please visit the Center for Accessibility Resources & Disability Services (CARDS) for academic accommodations. 

For faculty: Check out this resource guide from the Center for Engaged Pedagogy (CEP) about creating accommodations and accessibility.

For faculty accommodation requests, please contact the Office of the Provost, provost@barnard.edu. 

For staff accommodation requests, please contact your HR partner. Please feel free to contact Rebecca Sime Nagasawa (rsimenagasawa@barnard.edu), Director of CARDS, for a consultation with respect to accommodation requests. 

All Employees: Please check out the Disability Employee Resource Group (ERG), a space for community building across campus.

• Visit the Disability Justice zine collection at the Barnard zine library
• Check out this helpful guide for tips on language inclusivity. 
• AHEAD, the Association on Higher Education and Disability
• NCCSD, the National Center for College Students with Disabilities
• Diversity Resource hub