Rights & Responsibilities
Monmouth College and the Accessibility Services Office is committed to achieving equal educational opportunity and full participation for persons with disabilities. It is our policy that no qualified person be excluded from, denied the benefit of or subjected to discrimination with regard to any academic programs, and facilities, programs, activities, and services.
A person with a disability must be ensured the same access to programs, opportunities, and activities at the college as all others. Existing barriers must be removed. Further, there must be ongoing vigilance to ensure that new barriers are not erected.
Achieving full participation and integration of people with disabilities requires the cooperative of all departments, offices, and personnel. To this end, the college will continue to strive to achieve excellence in its services and to assure that its services are delivered equitably and efficiently to all of its members.
It is a student’s right to have:
- Equal access to the same educational experience as students without disabilities.
- Reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, policy modifications, and/or auxiliary aids determined on a case-by case, course-by-course basis.
- Confidentiality of all information pertaining to the condition(s) with the choice of whom to disclose disability specific information to except as required by law.
- Information available in accessible formats.
- File a formal grievance through the Equity Coordinator and/or through external agencies (e.g., Office of Civil Rights) because of disability discrimination, including the failure to provide reasonable accommodations, and/or discrimination, including the failure to provide reasonable accommodations, and/or discrimination or harassment based on a disability.
- Self-identify their disability and provide professional and appropriate documentation of the disability.
- Consult with the Student Access & Support Specialist to discuss appropriate accommodations.
- Consult with faculty at the beginning of each semester to discuss accommodation needs.
- Provide timely notification of special needs and changes in accommodation needs/services.
- Arrange exam accommodations with faculty well in advance of exam dates.
- Notify the Accessibility Services Office if requested accommodations are not being provided or are not effective.