Specialized Resource Center

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The Manhattan College Specialized Resource Center (SRC) serves a variety of students with special needs including individuals with a temporary disabilities by offering academic support in a positive and welcoming learning environment. The SRC strives to ensure equitable educational opportunities for our students by providing access to full participation in all aspects of campus life.

The SRC is a resource for students, both full and part-time, including graduate and undergraduate students, as well as faculty and staff. The use of these services is voluntary, strictly confidential, and free of charge. 

All students requesting services must provide appropriate documentation.

  • Criteria for Documentation

    Documentation will assist the SRC in understanding how the disability impacts the student in an academic setting and the current impact of the disability as it relates to the accommodations requested. Reviewing documentation is a collaborative process and is handled on a case-to-case basis.  Please contact us at src@manhattan.edu for further information regarding what is required.

Auxiliary aids and academic adjustments offered by the SRC include but are not limited to the following:

  • Priority seating
  • Alternative testing environments
  • Readers, note takers, and scribes
  • Access to adaptive technology
  • Liaison with faculty and other college departments
  • Advocacy/self-advocacy information
  • Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Disability

    Manhattan College adheres to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504. No qualified individual with a disability shall, on the basis of disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of this institution's classes or facilities. The College has made reasonable modifications in policies, practices, procedures, and/or facilities when such modifications were necessary, to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals. The office of the SRC has been designated to coordinate compliance with the nondiscrimination requirements contained in Subtitle A of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

  • Confidentiality Statement

    The SRC discloses education records without a student's prior written consent under the FERPA exception for disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official is a person employed by Manhattan College in an administrative, supervisory, academic or research, or support staff position (including public safety personnel and health staff); a person or company with whom the College has contracted as its agent to provide a service instead of using college employees or officials (such as an attorney, auditor or collection agent); a person serving on the Board of Trustees; or a student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committee, or assisting another school official in performing his or her tasks. A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his professional responsibilities for Manhattan College.

  • New Students

    For new students seeking accommodations, please click on the below button to submit your "New Student Application". You will be asked to upload documentation from you clinician.

    New Student Application

  • Existing Students

    For students who have received accommodations through the SRC in the past, please click on the button below to sign into AIM and request your forms for the semester.

    AIM Login - For Existing Students