Rights and Responsibilities

Rights and Responsibilities for Students with Disabilities

Students with disabilities at Cal Poly have the right to:

• equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities offered through the university;
• an equal opportunity to work and to learn, and to receive reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
• appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding their disability and to choose to whom, outside of the university, information about their disability will be disclosed, except as disclosures are required or permitted by law;
• information, reasonably available in accessible formats

Student with disabilities at Cal Poly have the responsibility to:

• meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary;
• demonstrate and/or document (from an appropriate professional) how the disability limits their participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.

Rights and Responsibilities of the University

Cal Poly has the right to:

• identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities and to evaluate faculty, staff and students on this basis;
• request and receive, through the Disability Resource Center, current documentation that supports requests for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
• deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation;
• select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
• refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid and service that imposes a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the University.

Cal Poly has the responsibility to:

• provide information to faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in accessible formats upon request;
• ensure that courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings;
• evaluate faculty, staff, students, and applicants on their abilities and not their disabilities;
• provide or arrange reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for faculty, staff, students and guests with disabilities in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except where permitted or required by law.

 

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