Students receiving accommodations from Pitt’s Disability Resources and Services discuss their concerns with the office — such as miscommunication and campus inaccessibility — in hopes of change at Pitt.

Let’s face it, these first few weeks on campus are likely to be a whirlwind. Right now students are more worried about getting IDs, figuring out where classes are and making friends than remembering a name they briefly heard at orientation.

Chloe Shearer was shocked upon being hired last November to find that Pitt did not have a faculty and staff community group for people with disabilities. So she took it upon herself to start one.

Students are finding it more difficult to find support for their disabilities due to remote learning. Pitt’s Office of Disability Resources and Services is providing different accommodations, such as increasing time limits on Canvas.

A Pitt student filed a housing discrimination complaint in September with the federal government.