Northeastern University

Rights of Northeastern University:

to identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, and knowledge for employment, courses, programs, services, and activities, and to evaluate faculty, staff, and students on this basis;
to request and receive, through the Disability Resource Center, current documentation that supports requests for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary services;
to deny a request for an accommodation, academic adjustment, and/or auxiliary services if the documentation demonstrates that they are not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide acceptable documentation in keeping with national guidelines;
to select among equally effective reasonable accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary services;
to refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary service or one that imposes an undue hardship or fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the University.

to provide information to faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in accessible formats upon request;
to ensure that employment, courses, programs services, and activities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings;
to evaluate faculty, staff, students, and applicants on their abilities and not on their disabilities;
to provide or arrange reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary services for faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in employment, courses, programs, services, facilities, and activities;
to maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except where permitted/required by law.