Rights & Responsibilities of Students with Disabilities

Students

Students with disabilities at Queensborough Community College have the right to:

• Equal access to courses, programs services and activities offered at the college.
• An equal opportunity to learn and to receive reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and services.
• Choose whether they wish to self-disclose and/or request accommodations.
• All other rights and privileges available to other students at Queensborough Community College.

Students with disabilities at Queensborough Community College have the responsibility to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs and activities.
• Demonstrate and/or provide documentation (from an appropriate professional) on how the disability limits participation in courses, programs, services and activities.
• Follow and abide by the college’s procedures for obtaining accommodations, academic adjustments and/ or other services.

The office of Services for Students with Disabilities has the right to:

• Request and receive current documentation that supports request for
  documentation, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or
  auxiliary aids and services if the documentation demonstrates that the
  request is not warranted or if the student fails to provide appropriate
  documentation.
• Select among equally effective accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid or service that imposes a fundamental alteration of a college program or activity.

The office of Services for Students with Disabilities has the responsibility to:

• Provide information to students with disabilities in accessible format
  upon request.
• Ensure that courses, programs, services, activities and facilities are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
• Review requests for accommodations to determine eligibility for services and the nature of accommodations
• Provide or arrange for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and auxiliary aids or services.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communications except where permitted of required by law or when the student requests that such information be shared.
• Serve as a liaison between students and faculty.
• Serve as a resource on disability issues for the Queensborough Community College campus community.

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Faculty

Faculty members have the right to:

• Establish and maintain standards for courses and academic programs.
• Provide the approved accommodations independently of the SSD lab.
• Request assistance and resources from the office of Services for Students with Disabilities

Faculty members are responsible for:

• Fostering an accessible learning environment to all learners
• Working with the student and the office of Services for Students with Disabilities to ensure the provision of reasonable accommodations.
• Addressing concerns about disability accommodations with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities.

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