I remember last year in marketing class we had to pair up with the architecture classes and work on a plan and a budget for our university becoming more accessible for the disabled. One of the things that we had to do for example was find wheelchair vans for the shuttle buses to have on their track and schedule and then we would have to find prices and make up a budget.
Other things besides handicap vans included more ramps and bigger elevators (some of the buildings only had elevators for the back like for warehousing stuff. So we couldn't have people in wheelchairs using this elevator only, it was way too dangerous and unhealthy (not to mention not up to standards).
So after we found all of the changes that we wanted to make, we had to come up with a plan that included everything (even how we would buy or sell handicapped vans) and we had to pitch it to the board. Even though this wasn't actually real, we did have to call companies and find out how much everything would cost and draw out the plans (well the architecture majors took care of that part) and we had to put together a presentation.
I actually did end up learning a lot from this project. I learned how to contact local offices (even though I won't have to contact these types in the future, the experience is helpful) and I also learned how to make a huge budget and draw up a presentation for it and present it to a large group of people. It was fun as well as professional and it helped me to prepare for the future a lot.
The biggest thing that I learned though through this experience was that our campus really does need a lot of the things that we proposed (and actually ended up getting some of them throughout the past year). We reached out to the disabled during the project to ask for their opinions on how to make the campus better for them and it really had a big impact on all of us I think. We learned how hard it was to get around and what we could do to help make this a more convenient place for them. Getting around and to and from classes shouldn't be what's holding people back.