Student Responsibilities

Student Rights and Responsibilities regarding Disability Accommodations

Each student with a disability at Aims has a right to have:

• To an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from courses, programs, services or activities.
• To an equal opportunity to work and to learn, to receive reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• To the assurance that all disability-related records will be confidential and maintained separately from college/university records in accordance with applicable law.
• An accommodation in a timely manner once it has been properly requested.

Each student with a disability at Aims is responsible for:

• His/her own enrollment
• Identifying himself/herself as an individual with a disability
• Providing appropriate up-to-date documentation
• To initiate all requests for accommodations and services in a timely manner
• Providing his/her faculty members a copy of the memo from DAC validating his/her requested accommodations
• To meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services or activities.

If a student has questions or problems concerning the appropriateness of an accommodation, he or she must contact DAC. If no resolution occurs at this stage, the student should consult the current Aims Community College Student Handbook, Student Mediation, Assistance, and Advocacy Program or the Student Grievance Procedure

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