| Home Eligibility for Service Policy of Confidentiality Rights & Responsibilities Staff |
Rights and Responsibilities
Every student with a documented disability at Kean University has the right to:
- Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities offered at Kean University.
- Reasonable and effective accommodations as determined for each individual, including academic adjustments and/or, auxiliary assistance and services.
- Confidentiality of all information regarding their disability and a choice of to whom, and when such information will be revealed.
- Information available in alternative formats.
Every student with a disability has the responsibility to:
- Provide documentation that verifies the disability, functional limitations and the need for accommodations.
- Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for classes,
programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities.
- Follow procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary assistance and services as soon as relevant course information is available.
- Identify oneself as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is necessary and to seek information, counseling, and assistance as necessary.
Kean University has the right to:
- Maintain its academic standards.
- Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and use of facilities and to evaluate students on this basis.
- Request and receive, through the Office of Disability Services, current documentation (no more that 2 years old) that supports the request for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary assistance and services.
- Deny any request for accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary assistance and services if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation in a timely manner, or if the documentation provided is inadequate.
- Select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments and/or auxiliary assistance and services in consultation with the student.
- Refuse an accommodation, adjustments, and/or auxiliary assistance and services as unreasonable.
Every Faculty Member Has the Responsibility to:
- Discuss with the Office of Disability Services any concerns related to the accommodation(s) or arrangements that have been requested by the student during the initial contacts.
- Determine the conditions under which the exam is to be administered (e.g. open book, use of notes, computer with word processor that includes spell check, formula sheet, calculator, scrap paper, dictionary)
- Provide appropriate accommodations, either personally or by making arrangement with the Office of Disability Services.
- Assure the timely delivery of the exam, along with all necessary instructions and materials for proper administration, if a student’s exam is to be administered out of class. The faculty member may also make arrangements with the student for the delivery and return of the exam.
- Assure the confidentiality of the information regarding the students with disabilities.
|
