Carroll Community College

Carroll Community College

http://www.carrollcc.edu

Rights and Responsibilities

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

  • Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for the programs, courses, services, jobs, activities, and facilities.
  • Identify to the Office of Student Support Services as having a disability in order to be considered for accommodations, and to seek information, counsel and assistance as necessary.
  • Provide documentation to the Office of Student Support Services  from a qualified professional about how their disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities.
  • Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
  • Adhere to the college's Code of Conduct (See in College Catalog)

 

Carroll Community College 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 on these basis.
  • Request and receive, through Student Support Services, current documentation from a qualified professional that 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 that the request is warranted, 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 program or activity of the College.

 

Carroll Community College has the responsibility to:

  • Accommodate the known limitations of an otherwise qualified student with a disability.
  • Provide information to faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities 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, 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.