Chapter 09.06 - Services for Students with Disabilities
REGENTS’ POLICY
PART IX – STUDENT AFFAIRS
Chapter 09.06 - Services for Students with Disabilities
P09.06.010. Prohibition Against Discrimination on the Basis of Disability.
The university will provide a learning environment in which no student will be subjected to unlawful discrimination based on disability. No otherwise qualified individual will be denied reasonable access to, participation in, or the benefits of, any program or activity operated by the university because of disability. Each qualified student with a disability will be eligible to receive appropriate academic adjustments and programmatic accommodations necessary for the student to access educational opportunities, programs, activities, or services in the most integrated setting possible.
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P09.06.020. Definitions.
In this chapter
- “ADA/Section 504 Coordinator” means the person responsible for overseeing university implementation of the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended;
- “appropriate academic adjustment” means a modification to the learning environment defined by individual documented need and directly related to a student’s academic pursuits, as approved by the MAU disability support services coordinator; appropriate academic adjustments may include auxiliary aids and services such as: sign language interpreters, provision of course notes, alternative format materials, alternative testing accommodations, assistive learning technologies, modifications in length of time needed to complete degree requirements, substitutions for specific courses required for degree completion, and adaptation of the manner in which specific courses are conducted;
- “disability support services coordinator” or “DSS Coordinator” means the individual designated by the chancellor of each MAU to administer the provision of appropriate academic adjustments and other programmatic accommodations to students with disabilities for the MAU;
- “programmatic accommodation” means a modification or adjustment to the physical and learning environment made to enable a student with a disability to pursue educational goals, as approved by the MAU disability support services coordinator;
- “qualified student” means a student with a disability who, with or without an accommodation, meets the academic and technical standards requisite for admission to, or participation in, the student’s selected educational program or activity;
- “student with a disability” means a person with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, or a person with a record of such a physical or mental impairment, or a person who is regarded as having such an impairment.