Carroll Community College

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.