Carroll Community College

Students with disabilities at Carroll have the right to:

• Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities offered by the college.
• Equal opportunity to work, learn and receive accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Confidentiality of information regarding their disability as applicable laws allow.
• Information available in accessible formats.

Students with disabilities at Carroll have the responsibility to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for the programs, courses, services, jobs, activities and facilities.
• Contact the Office of ADA Support Services to inform them of their disability, be considered for accommodations, and to seek information, counseling and assistance.
• Provide documentation to the Office of ADA Support Services  from a qualified professional about how their disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and access to facilities.
• Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Adhere to the college's Code of Integrity.

Carroll has the right to:

• Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities and to evaluate faculty, staff and students.
• Request and receive, through Student Support Services, current documentation from a qualified professional who supports the requests for accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services if the documentation does not demonstrate a warranted request or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation.
• Select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Refuse to provide an accommodation, adjustment and/or auxiliary aid and service that imposes a fundamental alteration on a college program or activity.

Carroll has the responsibility to:

• Accommodate the known limitations of an otherwise qualified student with a disability.
• Provide faculty, staff, students and guests with disabilities information in accessible formats upon request.
• Ensure that courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
• Evaluate faculty, staff, students and applicants on their abilities and not their disabilities.
• Provide or arrange accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services for faculty, staff, students and guests with disabilities in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except where permitted or required by law.
• Maintain academic standards by providing accommodations without compromising the content, quality or level of instruction.