INSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES REGARDING DISABILITY ACCESS
Adams State College, through the faculty and staff, has the right to:
- establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge and standards for employment, courses, programs, services, and activities and to evaluate students on this basis;
- request and receive current documentation that supports requests for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- select among equally effective accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- deny a request for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services if the documentation demonstrates that they are not warranted or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation;
- refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, or auxiliary aid or service or one that imposes an undue hardship or a fundamental alteration of a program or activity of the College.
Adams State College, through the faculty and staff, has the responsibility to:
- provide information to people with disabilities in reasonable and accessible formats upon request;
- evaluate each request for accommodation on an individual basis;
- provide or arrange reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for employment, courses, programs, services, and activities in the most integrated and appropriate settings;
- maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law.