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Disabilities

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The Museum School is committed to supporting the needs of students with disabilities.  It is the school’s policy that no otherwise qualified student be excluded from participating in any school program or activity.  Every effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations and appropriate support for qualified students with disabilities to ensure that they may achieve their academic potential. 

Whether or not you have indicated through the admission process that you will need or benefit from special classroom or learning accommodations, we urge you to identify any diagnosed and documented disability you have that may require special accommodations, and include the nature of accommodations that may be required.  Even if you have learned to work in secondary school without reasonable accommodations, you may find that the new challenges and expectations of college-level coursework demand that you review your need for assistance in this new environment.  
 

Please note that accommodations can be provided only when current, comprehensive documentation is shown from a qualified professional in the field related to the particular disability.  Periodic evaluation may be necessary depending upon the nature of the disability, as determined on a case by case basis.  We encourage you to attach whatever documentation and recommendations you may be able to provide at this time.  If complete documentation has been forwarded to the Admissions Office please check-off on the attached “Disabilities Survey” that those materials should have been received prior to this date. 

The information you provide will be maintained confidentially in the Academic Affairs Office.  Your faculty will NOT be notified of your learning differences unless YOU choose to notify them or give the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs written permission to do so.  This will be true each semester you are enrolled, and all accommodations will be arranged individually by you, with assistance from the staff members mentioned where needed. 

The ultimate success of efforts at accommodation depend not only upon the school’s appropriate services and resources, but also upon your maintaining active communication: giving timely notification of needs, notifying appropriate staff if problems arise, meeting deadlines, and complying with agreements.

Please contact Susan Lush in the Academic Affairs office at 617-369-3610 for more information. 

The Writing Center

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The SMFA Writing Center  offers appointments to undergraduate and graduate students to give assistance in any stage of the writing process, from brainstorming ideas, clarifying thesis statements, organizing paragraphs, smoothing transitions, planning research, formatting essays and correcting grammar. 
 
Drop by the Writing Center during the below hours or sign up for an appointment. Appointment sign-up sheets located on the Writing Center door. The Writing Center is located in the Mission Hill Building on the ground floor in Room C109.
 
Fall 2011 Schedule
Mondays:  5:00-9:00 pm  Kim 
Tuesdays:   12:15-1:30 pm  Hilary
Wednesdays: 12:00-4:00 pm Cheryl and 
                        6:00-9:00 pm Benjamin
 

A message from Hilary Binda 11/8/11:
Dear Students and others,

Big news about The Writing Center… really! The Writing Center is re-imagining itself as a source of discussion-consultation not only about your individual writing but also about the writing of others, acknowledging the powerful impact and influence of writing on our work as artists. To that end, we are now THE WRITING STUDIO and…

 

1. We need a new sign! We are announcing a $75 AWARD FOR A SIGN; please email Hilary Binda (hilary.binda@tufts.edu) if you are interested in participating and learn more about what needs to be on the sign.

 

2. We have developed a WRITERS READING SERIES in which we will bring writers to the SMFA to speak with you each semester.   Mark your calendars: March 8, Steve Almond (of God Bless America fame) will join us in the evening. In addition, we will co-sponsor with the Queer Group, a talk/workshop by Chris Thompson and Debra Burcuvitz, a transman and his lesbian partner, right after the Thanksgiving Break on Tuesday, November 29th at 12:30.

 

3. Students are beginning to organize a STUDENT WRITING/READING GROUP outside of classes and will be holding an organizational meeting on Thursday, November 17th at 12:30 in the Library.

 

4. MORE HOURS STARTING NOW: Thanks to many of you who have expressed enthusiasm about the work you do at the Writing Studio and a desire for more available hours for consultation, we have been able to find funding to support more hours beginning NOW: the Writing Studio will be open THURSDAYS from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and will also remain open during Review Boards / Final Exam weeks. May we also take this moment to remind you that when students sign up for slots and do not show up, you cause others – who tried to sign up only to find the slots full – to lose the opportunity to receive help. PLEASE BE THOUGHTFUL TO YOUR PEERS AND DO NOT MISS YOUR APPOINTMENTS. We will be working on an on-line sign up through Google for next semester.

 

Thanks so much for your support and please spread the word!

 

-- The Writing Studio Team:

Hilary Binda, Kim Hebert, Cheryl Alison, Benjamin Austin, and all of the other English faculty at the SMFA: Ted Weesner, Dave Valdez-Greenwood, Cynthia Williams, Nancy Lee-Jones, Micah Nathan, Mareike Stanitzke, and Mark Karlins


Handouts

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Disabilities Survey (.pdf, 21K)
Writing Center Hours Fall 2011 (.pdf, 73K)
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