Setting up ongoing support
A student who needs interpreting for a full course works with Accessibility Services before the term starts so an interpreter can be scheduled for every class meeting; two weeks' notice gives the best chance of full coverage from day one.
One-time events
Interpreting or captioning for a single lecture, meeting or campus event can be requested with shorter notice, though availability is not guaranteed on very short timelines.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
Request lead time: Two weeks for a new interpreted course; shorter for one-time events. Formats: In-person ASL interpreting, live captioning, notetaking support. Cost: No cost to the student. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.