Faculty Rights/Responsibilities

Faculty have the right to:

• Maintain academic standards for courses
• Determine course content and how it will be taught
• Confirm a student’s request for accommodations and ask for clarification about a specific accommodation with the student and/or the DRC
• Deny a request for accommodation – if the student has not been approved for such accommodation
• Award grades appropriate to the level of the student’s demonstration of mastery of material
• Fail a student who does not perform to passing standards

Faculty do not have the right to:

• Refuse to provide an approved accommodation for a documented disability
• Challenge the legitimacy of a student’s disability
• Review a student’s documentation, including diagnostic data

Faculty have the responsibility to:

• Understand the laws and university’s guidelines regarding students with disabilities
• Refer students to the Disability Resource Center, when necessary
• Provide requested accommodations and academic adjustments to students who have documented disabilities in a timely manner
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records concerning students with disabilities except when disclosure is required by law or authorized by the student
• Provide handouts, videos and other course materials in accessible formats upon request (when approved as a reasonable accommodation)
• Evaluate students based on their abilities rather than their disabilities