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Providing equal access for students with disabilities is a shared university responsibility. An open mind and a positive attitude allow for creative alternatives for students to achieve their full potential.
Services for Students with Disabilities is here to:
- Facilitate reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities;
- To be a resource for faculty members to help create accessible learning environments;
- To provide information to the campus community to ensure the inclusion of students with disabilities into all campus activities.
Cooperation is the key.
As NU becomes more physically accessible by removing architectural barriers we must also work towards the removal of invisible attitudinal barriers, facing students with disabilities. Students with disabilities are the University's best resource for creating an accessible campus. Let's welcome this diversity to campus and learn from their experience.
Rights and Responsibilities of People with Disabilities
Students with disabilities at Northwestern University have the right to:
- Equal access to courses, programs, services, and activities offered through the University.
- An equal opportunity to learn, and to receive reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments in an effort to diminish the effect of the disability on academic functioning.
- Self-determine who will receive student released disability-related materials and information within and outside the University.
- All other rights and privileges available to other students at Northwestern University.
People with disabilities at the University have the responsibility to:
- Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, and activities.
- Self-identify as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary in a timely fashion.
- Demonstrate and/or provide documentation (from an appropriate professional) how the disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, and activities.
- Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
Rights and Responsibilities of Northwestern University
Northwestern University has the right to:
- Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, requirements, and standards for courses, programs, services, and activities, and to evaluate students on this basis.
- Request and receive, through SSD, 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 of a program or activity of the University.
Northwestern University has the responsibility to:
- Provide information to students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request.
- Ensure that courses, programs, services, and activities when viewed in their entirety, are available in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
- Evaluate students on their abilities and not their disabilities.
- Provide or arrange for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with disabilities in courses, programs, services, and activities.
- Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law or when the student requests that such information is shared.
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