Rights and Responsibilities
Colorado College is committed to ensuring equal opportunity and access for students with disabilities. This requires that Accessibility Resources, students, faculty, and staff collaborate to ensure that educational opportunities are accessible and inclusive. Understanding your rights and responsibilities are essential in creating equitable experiences for students with disabilities.
Please contact Accessibility Resources if you need additional information or assistance (Armstrong 219; 719-227-8285).
- 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 Student Disability Appeal Policy and Procedure.)
- self-identify to Accessibility Resources 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.
- request documentation to verify the need for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- determine effective accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services in consultation with the student, with appropriate documentation of disability, and on a case-by-case basis.
- 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.
- provide information regarding policies and procedures that is 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.
- request in writing from Accessibility Resources notification of a student's need for accommodation.
- contact Accessibility Resources to clarify student requests for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- ask for a review of an accommodation request that they feel may impact the essential requirements of a course or program.
- maintain the College's academic and institutional standards.
- 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 Accessibility Resources and have made a direct request for accommodation to establish the means of providing accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- maintain appropriate confidentiality of information regarding disability issues.
- refer to Accessibility Resources those students who request accommodations but have not registered with Accessibility Resources.
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Last updated: 10/27/2023