Rights and Responsibilities

Student Rights

Every qualified student with a disability has the right to:

• Equal access to educational and co-curricular programs, services, activities, and facilities available through KU.
• Reasonable and effective accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids as determined on a case-by-case basis.
• Confidentiality regarding disability information including the right to choose to whom the disclosure of disability is made except as required by law.
• Receive information in reasonably accessible formats (must meet request deadlines to ensure availability).

Student Responsibilities

Every student with a disability has the responsibility to:

• Meet KU’s qualifications including essential technical, academic, and institutional standards.
• Identify as an individual with a disability and request accommodations through the Student Access Center (SAC) in a timely manner.
• Provide documentation from an appropriate professional source verifying the nature of the disability, functional limitations, and the rationale for specific accommodations being recommended.
• Follow specific procedures for obtaining reasonable and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids as outlined.

Institutional Rights & Responsibilities

The University of Kansas (KU) through the SAC has the right and responsibility to:

• Maintain the university’s academic standards.
• Require qualifying disability documentation to verify eligibility for disability accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids.
• Discuss students’ eligibility with diagnosing professionals if signed consent has been given.
• Select from among equally effective/appropriate accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids in consultation with the student.
• Deny requests for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids when disability documentation does not identify a specific disability, fails to verify the need for the requested services, or is not provided in a timely manner.
• Deny requests for accommodations, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aids that are inappropriate or unreasonable based on disability documentation including any that:
  • Pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others;
  • Constitute a substantial change or alteration of an essential course element/program standard, or pose undue financial or administrative burden on the university.