University Rights

• 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