QUESTION
How many City University of New York (CUNY) campuses are ADA accessible?
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The Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management at CUNY is unable to immediately specify how many campuses are ADA accessible but commits to providing an answer.
- Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about the ADA accessibility of CUNY campuses.
- The importance of accessibility for students with mobility issues is emphasized.
- There is a call for ensuring accessibility in higher education institutions, similar to public schools.
- Council Member Eric Dinowitz discusses existing legislation that requires knowledge of incoming students with disabilities.
Rita Joseph
1:48:30
How many of our of your CUNY campuses are ADA accessible?
Reine Sarmiento
1:48:36
ADA accessible.
1:48:37
Mhmm.
1:48:38
Yeah.
1:48:39
I I don't.
Rita Joseph
1:48:40
You'll get back to me?
Reine Sarmiento
1:48:41
Yes.
1:48:41
Yes.
Rita Joseph
1:48:42
Please do.
1:48:42
Because it's important.
1:48:43
Because we do have our students with mobility issues.
1:48:45
We wanna make sure they are also serviced as well.
1:48:49
So
Reine Sarmiento
1:48:51
We'll note it.
Rita Joseph
1:48:52
Suni is not here to answer, but I would have the same question for Suni.
1:48:55
We wanna make sure our just as much as we fight for public schools to be accessible, we wanna make sure our higher education institutions are also accessible to our New York City students.
1:49:05
So that standpoint.
Eric Dinowitz
1:49:07
Yeah.
1:49:07
It would be great if there were legislation that would make it easy.
1:49:13
For Quni to know exactly how many students with disabilities were coming into their campus, if only It does exist, and it was supposed to be implemented last July.
1:49:26
So look at the 18 of 2023.