Rights and Responsibilities

Students with disabilities have the right to:  (Audio Format)

• full and equal participation in the services and activities of Edgewood College.

• reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services that do not fundamentally alter the nature of a program or curriculum.

• privacy and protection from the dissemination of confidential information; however, even though records are kept strictly confidential,  students must recognize that in implementing accommodations, it may become more difficult

• information, readily available in accessible formats.

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Students with disabilities have the responsibility to:  (Audio Format)

• meet qualifications and essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, and activities.

• identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary.

• demonstrate and/or document (from an appropriate professional) how the disability limits their participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, and activities.

• follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations and/or auxiliary aids and services, or requesting barrier removal.

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The College, through faculty and staff, has the right to:  (Audio Format)

• establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs and activities or facilities and to evaluate students on this basis.

• confirm disability status and request and receive current, relevant documentation that supports requests for accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.

• have appropriate staff discuss students and their disabilities in order to implement requested accommodations (particularly instructional accommodations).

• deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments, or auxiliary aids and services, and/or barrier removal in facilities if the documentation does not demonstrate that the request is warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation.

• select among equally effective accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.

• refuse unreasonable accommodations, academic adjustments or auxiliary aids and services, and/or facility-related barrier removal requests that impose a fundamental alteration to a program or activity of the college.

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The College has the responsibility to:  (Audio Format)

• provide information to faculty, staff, students and guests with disabilities in accessible formats upon request.

• ensure that courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings.

• evaluate students on the basis of their abilities rather than   their disabilities.

• respond to requests on a timely basis.

• provide or arrange reasonable accommodations to students who have provided documentation that supports a need for accommodation.

• maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law.

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