Student Rights & Responsibilities
Access Services wants to empower all students to understand their eligibility for services and make informed choices about their education and campus experience.
As an ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Student receiving Access Services students have the Right to:
- Choose when and to whom you will disclose your disability.
- Be evaluated based on your ability not your disability. If the disability affects the outcome of an evaluation method, you are entitled to evaluation by alternative means.
- An equal opportunity to learn and participate in courses, programs, services, and extracurricular activities offered by ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø.
- Reasonable accommodations and adjustments when needed to the location, delivery system, or instructional methodology to achieve equal access.
- Decide whether to use the curricular or co-curricular accommodations for which you have been approved.
- Seek resolution to concerns about access, discrimination, or decisions concerning accommodations, through the College’s policy for filing informal and formal grievances.
- All other rights and privileges available to other students at ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø.
Students also have the Responsibility to:
- Self-identify as a student with a disability by completing the Access Services application.
- Demonstrate and/or provide documentation from a qualified professional identifying how the disability impacts areas of functional impairment.
- Explain how the functional limitations impact the equitable participation in college courses, programs, services, and/or activities and why accommodations are necessary.
- Disclose accommodations to instructors and arrange accommodations with each instructor throughout the course/semester.
- Meet and maintain ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø academic and technical standards, and abide by the Student Code of Conduct
- Follow Access Services procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, abide by testing center policies, and/or honor adaptive technology agreements.
- Inform Access Services of any concerns about classroom accommodations, harassing or discriminatory treatment related to disability, or access issues on campus as soon as the issues arise.