Students
Rights of a Student
- to an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from employment, courses, programs, services, and activities offered through the University;
- to an equal opportunity to work and to learn, and to receive reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- to appropriate confidentiality regarding their disability and to choose to whom, outside of the University, information about their disability will be disclosed, except as disclosures are required/permitted by law;
- to information, reasonably available in accessible formats.
Responsibilities of a Student:
- to meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for employment, courses, services, and activities;
- to self-identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed, and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary;
- to demonstrate and/or document (with information from an appropriate professional) how the disability limits participation in employment, courses, programs, services, or activities;
- to follow published procedures for obtaining information, services and reasonable accommodations.
