Physical access needs

Disabled students deserve an accessible campus

By: Anonymous, SFU Student I’m an undergraduate student who lived on campus for two years out of necessity. I live with disabilities that affect my balance and can make walking extra distances exhausting. Even when the campus isn’t a labyrinth of construction, it’s a maze of stairs and broken elevators. SFU is an accessibility nightmare for people like me. Even before the additional barriers from SFU’s careless choices since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the administration was failing to address many disabled students’ needs. With the inaccessibility of the Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL), departments lacking compassion, and a…

Continue reading