Disability Services for Students
Faculty Rights and Responsibilities
Rights:
- Right to determine content of each course, and how it is taught.
- Decide how to best instruct students and assess student learning.
- Consult with knowledgeable professionals on methods to accommodate learning needs of students with disabilities.
- Right to be informed of accommodation needs early in each semester, to be able to support students with disabilities.
- Right to maintain academic standards of courses.
- Question and negotiate specific accommodations to ensure that they will not change essential requirements of course.
- Right to award grades appropriate to the level of student’s demonstration of mastery of material.
- Right to fail a student who does not show mastery of course requirements.
- Be treated respectfully be all students.Enforce student handbook policies equally for all students.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain student confidentiality by not asking for specific information on student disability.
- Sign Accommodation Letter from Disability Services in a timely manner.
- Understand policies and law regarding students with disabilities.
- Communicate , early in semester, availability of support for students with disabilities to students through institution of higher education.
- Understand that some behaviors are not related to disability, and that there is no obligation to treat these students differently than any other.
- Reasonably accommodate students who provide documentation of a disability through Disability Services.
(Source: http://www.rosscenter.umb.edu/text/sh5.htm#five)
