Services

Student Accommodation Services

What is Student Accommodation Services? (SAS)

Student Accommodation Services, also known as SAS, is a functional service area on the OU-Tulsa and OU Health Sciences campuses. Effective November 2024, SAS is responsible for all reasonable accommodations and temporary modifications, taking over responsibility from Norman Campus' Accessibility & Disability Resource Center (ADRC). SAS serves all students geographically based on the OU-Tulsa campus, the OU Health Sciences campus, and all OU Health Sciences program additional sites. If you are a Norman or OU Online campus student, please visit the Accessibility and Disabilty Resource Center website

Students are encouraged to review all our SAS webpages to find all information relative to our registration process, documentation guidelines, renewing existing accommodations, resources specific to faculty, and more. 

Definition of Disability

Per the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an individual with a disability is defined as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment. 

At institutions of higher education, ADA dictates that students must self-disclose their disabilities in order to receive accommodations. Accommodations are not deemed to be in-place or official until the initial registration process is completed.


Our Team

Two full-time Academic Resource Coordinators (ARCs) manage all Student Accommodation Services processes for students at the Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and additional site locations. Our ARCs work collaboratively to provide services across campuses, with Payton Patterson-Jones supports the Oklahoma City campus and all OU Health Sciences additional sites, and Mackenzie Bedwell primarily overseeing the OU-Tulsa campus.

Headshot of Payton Patterson-Jones

Payton Patterson-Jones

Academic Resource Coordinator

OKC & Additional Sites

HSC Student Union, Suite 300

payton-patterson@ou.edu

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Mackenzie Bedwell

Academic Resource Coordinator

OU-Tulsa

Schusterman Center 1C76D

mackenzie-bedwell@ou.edu

1106 N Stonewall Avenue, Suite 300
Oklahoma City, OK 73117

Monday - Friday
8AM - 5PM


(405) 271-2416 ext. 40220
SAS-HealthSciences@ou.edu