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Accommodation Process for Students

Welcome to Students who are new to ARC

Starting Accommodations in the Fall of 2024?  Please wait until May 1st before registering.  In the meantime, please check out steps 2 and 3 to get your supporting documentation ready to upload as part of the form in step 1 — the registration form.

Needing accommodations for the first time, and for use in the Spring semester?

  1. Provide us with some background on your situation and needs through this  quick and easy online form.
  2. Upload a copy of previous accommodations — if any — (i.e., 504, IEP, or other documentation of accommodations provided at your previous school)
  3. Upload documentation from a licensed professional (doctor/therapist/counselor/etc.). This can take the form of a letter on their letterhead (a PDF, or screen shot, but not a WORD doc), and/or diagnostic materials (please no notes on prescription pads).  The documentation should contain:
    1. Diagnosis(ses)
    2. Reference to where/how these diagnoses cause issues in your access to education, housing, dining, etc.

If you don’t have your documentation or previous accommodations ready to upload now, you can upload it to your portal later, however we cannot move forward with an accommodation plan until we have supporting documentation (as is required by the ADA — Americans with Disabilities Act).  We’d appreciate hearing from you about the timeline for this so that we can plan accordingly.

You will now have a portal in our accommodations system, reachable at:  tcnj-accommodate.symplicity.com  (please bookmark this url).

What happens next?

An accommodations specialist will be assigned to you permanently for consistency and ease of communication. Your information will be reviewed and you will be contacted by the specialist to meet with you about finalizing your accommodation plan.

Please note:

  • The accommodations are NOT CONSIDERED IN EFFECT until you and your instructors have met to work out the implementation of your accommodations.  Please do this quickly.
  • You are expected to keep your Specialist informed of your experiences as you move through each semester, so that any emerging concerns can be addressed while they are still easier to resolve.
  • A week before each semester, you need to take a step to trigger the accommodation for the coming term.  Please see Semester Request  for the (simple) process.

For more details, please email arc@tcnj.edu or call 609-771-3199.

Contact

Accessibility Resource Center (ARC)
Roscoe West Hall, Suite 202
The College of New Jersey
P.O. Box 7718
2000 Pennington Rd.
Ewing, NJ 08628

609.771.3199

609.637.5082 FAX
arc@tcnj.edu

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