Legal Compliance

Accessing Academic Support

Documentation Criteria

Academic Accommodations

Extended Time Test Policy

Appeals Process

Student Rights & Responsibility

College Rights & Responsibility

Contact Information

OFFICE OF ACADEMIC SUPPORT
Director, LaDonna Bridges

COLLEGE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY

Rights

• To establish fundamental program and course standards and to evaluate each student’s performance against these standards.
• To request and receive documentation that supports academic accommodations.
• To deny a request for academic accommodations if documentation is not provided or if documentation fails to demonstrate that accommodations are needed.
• To select among equally effective modifications to meet a student’s academic needs.
• To refuse an unreasonable modification or one that poses undue administrative or financial hardship on the college.

Responsibilities

• To prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities.
• To reduce or eliminate physical, academic and attitudinal barriers.
• To provide reasonable accommodations.
• To maintain the strictest of student confidentiality.
• To assist students in self-advocacy.
• To guide students to resources that might assist them.
• To communicate with students in a way that maintains dignity and respect.
• To serve as a liaison between faculty and students with disabilities.

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For further information, please contact Ms. LaDonna Bridges at 508-626-4906 or lbridges@frc.mass.edu

Faculty Rights & Responsibility

Faculty Guidelines

Confidentiality Statement

Syllabus Statements

Teaching Resources

Last Updated: 08/16/2007
Web manager:  Kathleen Bohner, Center for Academic Support and Advising, Phone: 508-626-4509/ Fax: 508-626-4913