Student Services and Student Engagement

Academic Success and Accessibility Office

The Academic Success and Accessibility Office is committed to providing equitable access to learning opportunities for all students with documented disabilities (e.g., mental health, attentional, learning, chronic health, sensory, or physical). Accommodations are not provided retroactively and FGSBS students are encouraged to register as soon as they begin their academic program. TTUHSC El Paso encourages FGSBS students to access all resources available for consistent support and accommodations.

Please contact the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility to schedule a confidential conversation about the process for requesting reasonable accommodations in the classroom and laboratory settings.

The information below explains the rights and responsibilities of students with disabilities as well as the obligations TTUHSC El Paso has to provide academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services. Each student receiving academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and/or services through the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility is required to sign a student agreement, which outlines their responsibility for receiving academic adjustments.

Students with disabilities have a RIGHT to:

• Equal access to courses, programs, services, and activities offered through TTUHSC El Paso.
• Confidentiality of all information pertaining to the individual’s disability, except as disclosures are necessary to provide accommodation or are required or permitted by law.
• Accessible formats of information if reasonably available.
• Equal opportunity to learn through reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.

Students with disabilities have a RESPONSIBILITY to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional technical standards for courses, services and activities.
• To self-disclose as an individual with a disability when an academic adjustment, auxiliary aids and/or service is needed.
• To follow published procedures and seek information, counsel, and assistance in a timely manner to request accommodations and services.
• Complete and submit the Self-Disclosure and Accommodation Request forms to the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility.
• Provide recent documentation from an appropriate professional detailing how a student’s disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, or activities and provides support for each accommodation request.
• Inform the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility if the student elects not to use an approved accommodation. An Accommodation Waiver form will need to be completed.
• Renew accommodations after any break in educational enrollment.
• Promptly inform the Office of Academic Success and Accessibility of any problems with the manner in which an accommodation(s) is being provided.

Health and Wellbeing Resources

TTUHSC El Paso Student Counseling Services are provided through FGSBS students’ payment of the Student Services Fee. These resources are provided to enhance wellness by providing you, and any dependents you have, the opportunity to manage life’s problems before they become serious and impair your academic and professional performance.

The services include:

• Short-term counseling sessions (Individual)
• Providers in El Paso and via telepsychiatry so that you can choose the right provider for you and make your own appointment.
• Confidentiality assured. TTUHSC El Paso and the FGSBS receive no information related to student counseling services.
• 24-hour crisis line - Emergence Health Network: 915-779-1800.

Student Counseling Services Providers

Emergencies

In case of an emergency, students may go to any emergency room, or the ones listed below, at their own expense.

The two numbers above 915-544-1200 and 915-532-2202 serve as a 24-hour crisis line, available to any student or family member, whether or not the student is currently receiving counseling services.

Visit the Student Counseling Services website for a complete list of Community Counseling Resources available with private insurance or self-pay.

Fitness Resources

Red Raider Wellness Center

• Located in the MEB 1230 open 24 hours a day 7 days a week for enrolled students (no outside guests allowed)

• Free weights and selectorized equipment

• Cardio equipment including treadmills, upright and recumbent bikes, and rowing machine

• Men’s and Women’s locker rooms with shower facilities.

Fitness Partners

• Planet Fitness Benefit coming soon for group rates and discounted services

• UTEP Recreation Center - coming Spring 2022 for access to facilities and programming for TTUHSC El Paso student purchase