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Rights and Responsibilities: The student/college partnership
EFSC students with documented disabilities have the following rights:
- Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities available through the college.
- Reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services determined on a case-by-case basis.
- Appropriate confidentiality of all information pertaining to his/her disability with the choice of whom to disclose his/her disability to except as required by law.
- Information reasonably available in accessible formats.
EFSC students with disabilities have the responsibility to:
- Meet EFSC’s qualifications and essential technical, academic, and institutional standards.
- Identify themselves in a timely manner as an individual with a disability when seeking an accommodation.
- Provide documentation from an appropriate professional source that verifies the nature of the disability, functional limitations, and the need for specific accommodations.
- Follow specific procedures for obtaining reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
Institutional Rights and Responsibilities
EFSC, through its SAIL department, has the right to:
- Maintain the college’s academic standards.
- Request the student provide current and complete documentation from an appropriate professional source to verify the need for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- With the student’s signed consent, discuss the student’s need for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services with the professional providing the documentation.
- Select among equally effective and appropriate accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services in consultation with the student.
- Decline a request for accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services if the needed documentation is not provided, does not identify a specific disability, fails to verify the need for the requested services, or is not provided in a timely manner.
- Disallow an accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid and service that is inappropriate or unreasonable including any that:
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- poses a direct threat to the health and safety of others;
- constitutes a substantial change or alteration to an essential element of a course or program; or
- pose undue financial or administrative burden on the college.
EFSC, through its SAIL staff, has the responsibility to:
- Provide information regarding policies and procedures to students with disabilities and assure its availability in accessible formats upon request.
- Assist students with disabilities who self-identify and meet the college criteria for eligibility to receive reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids determined on a case-by-case basis.
- Provide reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids for students with disabilities in a timely manner upon request and when all documentation has been received and reviewed.
- Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication concerning students with disabilities except where disclosure is required by law or authorized by the student.
- Inform students with disabilities of EFSC policies and procedures for filing an informal and/or formal grievance with the college and/or through external agencies (e.g., Office of Civil Rights)