CLASS Program - Development of CLASS
1971 Augsburg began making the campus accessible for students with physical disabilities.
1973 The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was enacted.
1980 Augsburg began serving three students with learning disabilities.
1984 The president's staff approved hiring a full-time learning disabilities specialist.
1988 The Groves family contributed an endowment for adaptive technology for students with learning disabilities.
1989 Augsburg's Office of Disabled Services was renamed the Center for Learning and Adaptive Student Services (CLASS).
1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted. CLASS served 91 students with learning disabilities and 29 students with physical disabilities.
1991 The Gage family contributed a matching endowment to assist CLASS in its expansion of place, personnel, and services.
1995 CLASS moved to a new space in the lower level of the Foss, Lobeck, Miles Center.
1996 CLASS served 136 students with learning disabilities, 41 students with physical disabilities, and 8 students with psychiatric disabilities. The staff included six full-time employees.
1999 The Access Center is created to serve students with physical disabilities.
2003 The CLASS staff included a Director, four Disability Specialists, an Accommodations Specialist, and a program assistant as well as numerous student workers.
2004 CLASS had 147 students actively accessing services. This included students with ADD/ADHD, learning disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, traumatic brain injury, and students with disabilities on the Autism spectrum. A significant number of those students indicated that they had more than one disability.
