Rights and Responsibilities of Students
Students with disabilities at Emmanuel College have the right to:
- Access courses, programs, services and facilities offered through the College;
- An opportunity to learn and to receive reasonable accommodations and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding their disabilities;
- Academic information, reasonably available in accessible formats.
Students with disabilities at Emmanuel College have the responsibility to:
- Meet qualifications and maintain institutional standards for courses, programs, services and facilities;
- 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 and facilities;
- Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations and/or auxiliary aids and services.
Rights and Responsibilities of Emmanuel College
Emmanuel College has the right to:
- Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, and standards for courses, programs, services, facilities for students, and to evaluate and determine reasonable accommodations on this basis;
- Request and receive, through the Disability Support Services office, current and appropriate documentation that supports requests for accommodations and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Deny a request for accommodations and/or auxiliary aids and services if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation;
- Select among similarly effective accommodations and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Refuse an unreasonable accommodation and/or auxiliary aid or service that creates an undue burden for the College or imposes a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the College.
Emmanuel College has the responsibility to:
- Provide academic information to students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request unless to do so would constitute an undue burden for the College; ensure that courses, programs, services, and facilities for students, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in integrated and appropriate settings;
- Evaluate students and applications on their abilities and not their disabilities;
- Provide or arrange reasonable accommodations and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with disabilities in courses, programs, services and facilities;
- Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication.
