Anxiety and Accommodations in Higher Education:

A Free Masterclass

Let's stop telling students to be resilient.

Let's start building classrooms that work—for faculty AND students.

Anxiety is now the most common mental health concern on college campuses. Faculty hear about it constantly—in emails asking for extensions, in students who don’t show up, in Disability Services accommodations requests that keep arriving. And most faculty are left wondering: what am I supposed to do with all of this?

In this free one-hour masterclass, neurodiversity researcher, author, and AuDHD professor Katie Rose Pryal, JD, PhD, cuts through the noise to give you a framework that actually works—for your students and for you.

Drawing on her research in disability studies and her decades of experience on both sides of the accommodations table—as a neurodivergent professor and as the parent of two AuDHD teens—Dr. Pryal will walk you through:

• Why anxiety is a form of neurodiversity, not a deficit—and what that means for how you teach
• The crucial difference between accommodations, accessibility, and inclusion (and why it changes your workload)
• Why “resilience” is the wrong framework for mental health, and what to say instead
• The medical model versus the social model of disability—and how shifting your lens transforms your classroom
• Concrete, low-effort strategies to create an accessible classroom that reduces your labor while supporting your students

This is not a masterclass about compliance. It’s about understanding. When faculty understand what’s actually happening with anxious and neurodivergent students, everything gets easier on us—the accommodations process, the extension requests, the participation grades, all of it.

Come ready to rethink what support really means—for your students and yourself.

Note: This is a replay of a live masterclass with a Q and A. If you would like to be informed of future live masterclasses hosted by Dr. Pryal, subscribe to her mailing list.