Rights and Responsibilities

Students with disabilities at the University of Michigan-Dearborn have the right to:

1. Equal access to courses, programs, services, and activities offered through the University.
2. 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.
3. Self-determine who will receive student released disability related materials and information within as well as outside of the University.
4. All other rights and privileges available to other students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Students with disabilities at the University of Michigan-Dearborn have the responsibility to:

1. Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, and activities.
2. 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.
3. Demonstrate and/or provide documentation (from an appropriate professional) on how the learning environment limits participation in courses, programs, services, and activities based on their disability.
4. Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.

The University of Michigan-Dearborn has the right to:

1. Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, requirements, and standards for courses, programs, services, and activities, and to evaluate students on this basis.
2. Request and receive, through Disability Services, current documentation that supports requests for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
3. Deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services if the documentation provided demonstrates that the request is not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation.
4. Select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
5. Refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid and service request that imposes a fundamental alteration of a program or activity of the University.

The University of Michigan-Dearborn has the responsibility to:

1. Provide information to students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request.
2. Ensure that courses, programs, services, and activities when viewed in their entirety, are available in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
3. Evaluate students on the basis of their abilities and not their disabilities.
4. Provide arrangement for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with disabilities in courses, programs, services, and activities.
5. Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law or when the student requests that such information be shared.