Students with Disabilities at Lamar University Have the Right to:
Equal access to courses, programs, services and activities offered through the university.
An equal opportunity to learn and to receive reasonable accommodations and academic adjustments in an effort to diminish the effect of the disability on academic functioning.
Self-determine who will receive student released disability-related materials and information within and outside the university.
All other rights and privileges available to other students at Lamar University.
Students with Disabilities at Lamar University Have the Responsibility to:
Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs and activities.
Self-identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and to seek information, counsel and assistance as necessary in a timely fashion.
Demonstrate and/or provide relevant documentation (from an appropriate professional) on how the disability presents functional limitations in regards to participation in courses, programs, services and activities.
Follow university procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
Lamar University's Rights and Responsibilities
LU has the right to:
Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, requirements and standards for courses, programs, services and activities, and to evaluate students on this basis.
Request and receive current documentation that supports 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 demonstrates that the request is not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation.
Select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
Refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid or service that imposes a fundamental alteration of a program or activity of the University.
LU has the responsibility to:
Provide to students with disabilities information in accessible formats upon request.
Ensure that courses, programs, services and activities, when viewed in their entirety, are available in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
Evaluate students on their abilities and not their disabilities.
Provide or arrange for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with disabilities in courses, programs, services and activities.
Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law or when the student requests that such information be shared.