Knowing your rights and responsibilities is both your right and your responsibility. Read the information below carefully and make sure you understand it. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Your Rights
Every student has the right to equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities offered through the University. You have the right to receive information, especially in academic courses, at the same time as your peers even if that information needs to be converted to an accessible format. You have the right to equal opportunity to learn, work, and to reasonable classroom accommodations. With the exception of disclosures that are required by law, you have the right to know that all information regarding your disability is kept confidential.

Your Responsibilities
Every student is responsible for meeting the University’s qualifications and essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities. You are responsible for identifying yourself as a person with a disability, for all costs associated with obtaining the reports, examinations, testing, etc., and for your registration with the DSO if you wish to receive academic accommodations and/or services from our office. You are responsible for requesting each semester’s Letters of Accommodations or Services Letter with enough advanced notice for accommodations to be put in place. You are responsible for following all procedures of the DSO.

The University's Rights
The University has the right to identify and establish the essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, and standards for courses, programs, services, activities, and facilities. The University has the right to evaluate the faculty, staff, and students based on the established standards maintained by the University for courses, programs, services, activities, and facilities. The University has the right to request, receive, evaluate and implement the current documentation that supports the need for reasonable accommodations. Conversely, the University has the right to evaluate documentation and determine that it does not meet the criteria and deny the request for accommodations, as well as deny requests for reasonable accommodations that the documentation does not support, and to deny services to students, faculty, and staff who do not provide documentation of their disability.

The University's Responsibilities
The University is responsible for ensuring that courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable. The University is responsible for providing information to faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in accessible formats upon request, and maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication regarding disability. The University is responsible for providing or arranging appropriate reasonable accommodations, auxiliary aids and services for faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities.