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Rights and Responsibilities
Colorado College is committed to ensuring equal opportunity
for students with disabilities. This process is a collaborative effort
between Disability Services, students, and faculty. All three participants
have a role to play in making education accessible. Understanding your
rights and responsibilities are essential to the process of accommodation.
Students with disabilities have the right to:
- equal access to programs, activities, and services at Colorado College.
- information that is reasonably available in accessible formats.
- reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary
aids and services that are determined on an individual basis.
- appropriate confidentiality of information relating to disability
issues.
- appeal decisions regarding the determination or provision of accommodations,
academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services. (See the Disability
Services Student Appeal Policy and Procedure.)
Students with disabilities have the responsibility to:
- self-identify to Disability Services when accommodations, academic
adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services are needed and to seek
information, counsel, and assistance as necessary. (For more information,
visit our Registering for Services page.)
- provide documentation that meets eligibility guidelines, if the student
is requesting disability support services. (For more information, visit
our Documentation Guidelines page.)
- request necessary accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary
aids and services in a timely manner.
- follow guidelines established for obtaining reasonable and appropriate
accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
(For more information, visit our Accommodations
page.)
- meet the College's academic and institutional standards.
Disability Services has the right to:
- request current documentation that meets eligibility guidelines to
verify the need for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments,
and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- select effective accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary
aids and services in consultation with the student and on a case-by-case
basis.
- refuse a request for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or
auxiliary aids and services if the documentation fails to verify the
need for the student's request, or if the documentation is not provided
in advance of need.
- refuse to provide an accommodation, auxiliary aid, and/or academic
adjustment that is inappropriate or unreasonable in such a manner as
to 1) pose a direct threat to the healthy and safety of others, 2) constitute
an alteration to an essential element of a course or program, or 3)
pose an undue financial or administrative burden on the College.
- maintain the College's academic and institutional standards.
Disability Services has the responsibility to:
- provide information regarding policies and procedures that is reasonably
available in accessible formats.
- determine reasonable and effective accommodations, academic adjustments,
and/or auxiliary aids and services in collaboration with the student.
- provide or arrange for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or
auxiliary aids and services so the student has an equal opportunity
to participate in courses, programs, activities, and services.
- maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication
regarding student disability issues.
Faculty members have the right to:
- request in writing from Disability Services notification of a student's
need for accommodation.
- contact Disability Services to clarify student requests for accommodations,
academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- decide if an accommodation request meets the academic requirements
of the course.
- maintain the College's academic and institutional standards.
Faculty members have the responsibility to:
- provide reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary
aids and services in a timely manner.
- meet with students who have provided written notification of their
disability via Disability Services and have made a direct request for
accommodation to establish the means of providing accommodations, academic
adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- maintain the confidentiality of information regarding disability issues.
- refer to Disability Services those students who request accommodations
but have not registered with Disability Services.
Please contact Disability Services if you need additional information
or assistance (Learning Commons at Tutt Library, Room 152; 719-227-8285).
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