More students report psychological disabilities

Image:  The University of California, San Francisco, recently made a new accommodation available to students with disabilities: “release time” to attend medical appointments. “Very often that is therapy,” said Tim Montgomery, director of student disability services at UCSF. “But we don’t say therapy; we just say ‘medical appointments’ and leave it at that.” Like many postsecondary institutions around the country, UCSF is seeing a spike in students registering with disability...