Rights and Responsibilities

Every student with a documented disability has the following rights:

Reasonable access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities available through the College.
Reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids determined on a case-by-case basis.
Appropriate confidentiality pertaining to his/her disability.

Every student with a disability has the responsibility to:

Meet the College's qualifications and essential technical, academic, and institutional standards.
Identify in advance the need for accommodation.
Provide complete and appropriate documentation as described in the Documentation Guidelines section.
Follow specific procedures for obtaining reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids.

Appeal Procedures

Upon rare occasion, agreement about reasonable accommodation cannot be reached. In such cases, the following steps should be followed:

The student or College member should contact the DSS Coordinator on their campus. The DSS Coordinator will attempt to facilitate a mutually acceptable accommodation agreement.
If no acceptable agreement can be reached, the request for reconsideration will be forwarded to the Assistant Dean, College Support Programs for review and resolution.
If no acceptable agreement is reached at this level, the issue will be submitted to the Associate Dean, College Opportunity and Support Programs and/or the Vice-President for Student Affairs.
The Associate Dean and/or Vice President will review the information received, request additional information if necessary, and make a final decision.
The Vice President will transmit a decision to the student, the College member and the Assistant Dean, College Support Programs.
Should the resolution prove unsatisfactory, the student or college member may contact the College’s ADA/504 Coordinator.