Disability at UW Madison

Disability at UW Madison

by the numbers

930

37%

50%

26%

13,005

310

18

78%

8.3%

153/388

13,005

Amount of disabled students enrolled in the UW system

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310

The average number of students assigned to one access coordinator at the McBurney Center

Students reciveing disability accomodations at UW Madison are each assigned an access coordinator. This person is supposed to repsond to each students individual needs and guide them through the process of recieving accomodations. Due to understaffing the ratios of stduents to coordinators are very high.

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50%

Percentage increase of disabled student enrollment between 2018 and 2022

According to the UW System Disabled Students Report, "It is imporant to note that, despite many campuses expericning flat or even decreasing enrollment over this time span, the number of disabled stdents seeking accomodations conintues to grow."

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930

The amount of applications that McBurney recieved in spring 2023

Source: Director Mari Magler

37%

Percentage of disabled UW System students with psycological disabilities

The UW System tracks disbaility accomodations by category, these include, ADHD/ADD, Autism Spectrum, Brain Injury, Health Condition, Hearing, Learning, Mobility, Psycological, Temporary and Vision.

Psycological disabilities can include mental ilnesses like depression, Anxiety, OCD and PTSD.

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8.3%

Percentage of enrolled UW System students that are disabled

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26%

The amount of applications that were "archived" in fall 2022

According to Director Mari Magler, "Applications can be archived for a variety of reasons, but the most common is no response to follow up. It could also include not requesting services at this time, admitted but not attending, no longer enrolled or no disability."

18

Amount of colleges in the US who have a Disability Cultural Center (as of July 2023)

While most colleges in the US have a diability resoruce center, only 18 (including Madison) have a Disability Cultual Center, meant to connect and create community between disabled students.

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153/388

The number of UW Madison buildings with accessible entrances out of total buildings

The Acessibilty Office at UW-Madison provides a guide of accesible buildings and there entrances. There current list of builings has 188 entires. In total, UW-Madison has 388 buildings on it's campus, meaning the majority of these are inacessable for physically disabled students.

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78%

Percentage of UW system disabled students who have testing accomodations

Testing accomodations include taking a test in a distraction free enviornment, extended time on tests, large print on tests booklets, breaks during tests and more.

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