centre for accessible learning
Airport security vs. CAL: Welcome to the accommodated life
July 31, 2025By: Matthew Cullings, SFU Student My palms sweat as my student ID slides through my hands. Butterfingers. As I draw nearer to the checkpoint, I feel the weight of a thousand bullets piercing through my skin. I wipe away a pound of sweat. I approach the Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL) checkpoint. “What’s your name?” demands an enraged lady with a clipboard. “Spit it out, I don’t have all day.” “My name is . . .” I try to respond, but she’s just so intimidating. “I said hurry up or else I’ll send in the dogs! They’re hungry for some…
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Being sick shouldn’t cost this much
July 30, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor One day, two and a half years ago, I woke up with agonizing pain in my abdomen. After hours of attempting to get through it — thinking it might’ve been a muscle cramp — I…
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SFU needs to improve their accommodations system
July 24, 2025By: Noeka Nimmervoll, Staff Writer Between Burnaby Mountain’s poor transportation and the daily Stairmaster challenge, it’s no wonder the majority of students, staff, and alums think the needs of people with disabilities aren’t met at SFU. This includes those with…
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SFU’s Centre for Accessible Learning is not accessible
February 7, 2021by Anonymous I recently delved into the process of obtaining learning accommodations from SFU’s Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL). But I was shocked to learn that receiving support would require weeks of my time and energy, and would only force…
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Being a visually impaired student in the age of COVID-19
September 21, 2020By Gurpreet Kambo, Peak Associate This article is part of an ongoing series about how disabled students have transitioned to remote learning and pandemic living. “I've done a video editing course, I've done graphic design being fully blind,” said SFU…
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