{"id":9221,"date":"2018-07-20T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:51","slug":"u-m-ann-arbor-named-a-top-disability-friendly-online-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/20\/u-m-ann-arbor-named-a-top-disability-friendly-online-university\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M Ann Arbor named a top disability-friendly online university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9278\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award.png\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"601\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award.png 601w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award-125x87.png 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award-286x200.png 286w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award-200x140.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award-60x42.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/>U-M Ann Arbor has been named one of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/ann-arbor-campus-among-top-disability-friendly-online-schools\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America\u2019s top disability-friendly online universities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The 2018 Best and Most Affordable Online Colleges for Students with Disabilities are ranked on thoroughness of resources, Universal Design for Learning training, availability of distance learning accommodations and variety of services provided. The list was published by SR Education Group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is nice be recognized,\u201d said Stuart S. Segal, director for the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities. \u201cThe office continues to strive to improve and make sure that students with disabilities have full and equal access to all components of the university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Services for Students with Disabilities is an instrumental resource for students with disability needs. The office, created in 1973 as the Office of Disabled Student Services, had 2,880 students registered in 2017-18 academic school year. That same year, nearly 1,000 students who were registered with SSD graduated from U-M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-M Ann Arbor has been named one of America\u2019s top disability-friendly online universities. The 2018 Best and Most Affordable Online Colleges for Students with Disabilities are ranked on thoroughness of resources, Universal Design for Learning training, availability of distance learning accommodations and variety of services provided. The list was published by SR Education Group.\u00a0 \u201cIt is nice be\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/20\/u-m-ann-arbor-named-a-top-disability-friendly-online-university\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":9278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-accessibility"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award.png",601,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award-125x87.png",125,87,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award-286x200.png",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award.png",601,420,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award.png",600,419,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award.png",601,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award.png",601,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award-601x300.png",601,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award.png",601,420,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/accessibilty-award.png",358,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Samantha DeRosia, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/srderosi\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"U-M Ann Arbor has been named one of America\u2019s top disability-friendly online universities. The 2018 Best and Most Affordable Online Colleges for Students with Disabilities are ranked on thoroughness of resources, Universal Design for Learning training, availability of distance learning accommodations and variety of services provided. The list was published by SR Education Group.\u00a0 \u201cIt&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/9279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}