Texas A&M disability resources center getting more testing space for students who need accommodations

This podcast contains comments from the April 14, 2025 Texas A&M faculty senate meeting.Texas A&M has 6,000 students who are registered with the disability services center as requiring special accommodations.Director Kristie Orr told faculty senate members at this month's meeting that a west campus building is being remodeled to add student testing spaces.What was formerly an open access computer lab on the first floor of the business library and collaborative comments, will have two private rooms and three large areas that will seat 123 students.Testing space in the student services building holds 96, requiring at times to do testing in conference rooms and even space in the memorial student center.Orr also explained a new responsibility for some faculty members, that of being a liaison between affected students and the center's case workers who each monitor between 500 and 600 students. She said the liaison is something that came from A&M's president.And the center is moving to a new data management system on or around May 16.Click HERE to read and download presentation materials that were used at the April 14, 2025 Texas A&M faculty senate meeting.Orr and faculty senate speaker Angie Hill Price also responded to questions regarding an increase in the number of failing students who are asking for accommodations the closer it gets to finals week.