Accessibility Services Rights and Responsibilities

Students with disabilities at Kent State University Regional Campuses have the RIGHT to:

• Equal opportunity to learn through reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Equal access to programs, courses, services, activities, and facilities offered through the university.
• Individual consideration and review of their requests.
• Confidentiality of information regarding their disability, except as disclosure is necessary to acquire accommodations, and/or required by law, or requested by the student in writing.
• Accessible formats of information if reasonably available.

Students with disabilities at Kent State University Regional Campuses have the RESPONSIBILITY to:

• Identify themselves as individuals with disabilities and seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary.
• Follow published procedures in a timely manner to obtain reasonable accommodations.
• Provide comprehensive and recent documentation from appropriate licensed professionals that details how their disabilities limit their participation and supports each accommodation request.
• Meet with faculty to share the Letter of Accommodations and to discuss any applicable accommodations students choose to access.
• Adhere to the arrangements made with faculty regarding how and when testing will be conducted and how accommodations will be handled in each specific class.
• Meet and maintain essential institutional qualifications and standards for courses, programs, services, and activities.

Kent State University has the RESPONSIBILITY to:

• Provide information to students in accessible formats upon request.
• Provide or arrange reasonable accommodations in courses, programs, services, and facilities.
• Ensure that programs, services, activities and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
• Serve as liaison with faculty and outside community resources and agencies.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communications.