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Students with Disabilities Policy
Union Graduate College is committed to protecting students with disabilities from discrimination in any form and to promoting access to educational opportunities for all of its students. Thus, the Graduate College will provide academic adjustments to qualifying students as required by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. An individual with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation when she or he knows that there is an educational barrier that is preventing her or him, due to a disability, from effectively performing their studies. Union Graduate College recommends that an individual request a reasonable accommodation before his/her performance suffers or conduct problems occur. A “disability” is defined as an individual who: has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual, has a record of such impairment, or is regarded as having such impairment.
Together with the request for accommodation, the student seeking accommodation must submit documentation of disability. The documentation must support the accommodation request by demonstrating by the opinion of a competent qualified health care provider that the student requesting accommodation has a physical, mental or learning impairment which substantially limits a major life activity and sets forth the nature, manner and duration of that limitation. This documentation generally must be within the last 24 months. The College reserves the right to require further evaluation.
This opinion of the qualified health care provider must reflect the student's present level of
functioning of his/her major life activity affected by the disability. The opinion of the qualified health care provider must also provide detailed data that support the requests for any reasonable accommodation. Applicants or students must pay the cost of obtaining the professional opinion of the qualified health care provider. The Graduate College has the discretion to require supplemental assessment of a disability. If the Graduate College requires an additional assessment for purposes of obtaining a second professional opinion, then the College shall bear any cost not covered by any third party.
While a student can request a particular type of accommodation, it is the College that determines how to meet a particular need. Therefore, alternative accommodations may be provided which are more cost effective or efficient than those requested by the student seeking accommodation. An applicant or student must request a reasonable accommodation by contacting the Graduate College Registrar. Academic adjustments will be provided to the extent that the modification does not fundamentally alter the nature of a service, program or activity or would result in undue financial or administrative burdens. Written notification of the Graduate College’s decision will be mailed to the student. The decision can be appealed within ten days by submitting a written request to the President. The President's decision will be communicated to the student. There will be no further appeal.
for the most up to date information visit the student handbook
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Phone: (518) 631-9900 Fax: (518) 631-9901
