Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, standards and criteria for courses, programs, services and activities
Request and receive, through Services for Students with Disabilities (SSWD), current documentation from an appropriate licensed professional source that supports accommodation requests as well as requests for academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services
Deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustment and/or auxiliary aids and services in consultation with a student with a documented disability if:
Documentation does not meet the university's guidelines and demonstrate that the request is warranted
The student fails to provide appropriate documentation
Refuse to provide an accommodation, adjustment and/or auxiliary aid or service that is ineffective or unreasonable, including any that:
Pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others
Fundamentally alter the courses, programs, services or activities
Pose undue financial or administrative burden
University Responsibilities
Provide information regarding policies and procedures to faculty, staff, students and guests with disabilities and assure that this information be provided in accessible formats upon request
Ensure that courses, programs, services and activities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings
Evaluate students and applicants on their abilities and potentials, not their disabilities
Provide or arrange for effective, appropriate and reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with identified disabilities in courses, programs, services and activities
Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication concerning students with disabilities