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Disability Support Services

Disability Support Services

The Academic and Career Planning office provides support services for students with physical, mental or learning disabilities. Services provided to students can include: tutoring, note taking, sign language interpreter, the Kurzweil Reader, and RapidText.

Additional modifications and accommodations for students with disabilities include but are not limited to:

  • Provide services such as readers for students with blindness, visual impairments or learning disabilities, qualified interpreters and note-takers for students with learning disabilities or orthopedic impairments.

  • Allow extra time to complete exams.

  • Permit exams to be individually proctored, read orally, dictated, or typed.

  • Use alternative forms for students to demonstrate course mastery.

  • Permit the use of computer software programs or other assistive technological devices to assist in test-taking and study skills.

Please contact Academic and Career Planning office for further information regarding these services.

 

Alma College students have the ability to design their own area of academic concentration, with the assistance of a faculty advisor, to meet specific educational or career goals. In recent years, students have graduated with Programs of Emphasis majors in such fields as arts management, archaeology and anthropology, environmental policy and community advocacy, Foreign Service and international law, and music technology and digital media.

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Student Profile

Drew Emge

Drew Emge
Graduation: 2009
Major: POE: International Health
From: Bay City
Interests: Health Professions, Community Service

A Truman Scholarship finalist and Center for Responsible Leadership Fellow, Drew has traveled to South Africa and China studying the HIV/AIDS crisis. The Bay City native intends to use his French minor and POE in International Health to improve AIDS care in Africa, hopefully as a physician with a global public health organization.

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