Definitions

Disability — a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits an individual from performing one or more major life activities, as defined by law.

Essential Technical Standards for the Nursing Student — the basic duties that a student must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation. (See Policy ACA 1.02)

Interactive Process — a formal or informal discussion between the student seeking an accommodation and the Assistant Director for Student Success to clarify what the individual needs and identify the appropriate reasonable accommodation.

Qualified individual — an individual who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the academic program. (See Policy ACA 1.02)

Reasonable accommodation — an adaptation to a program or service that allows a student with a disability to have equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from the program or service and to perform the essential functions, but that does not place undue hardship on the institution.

SAAS — Student Access and Accommodation Services

Undue hardship — the accommodation would be too difficult or too expensive to provide in light of the institution’s size, financial resources, or represents a fundamental alteration to the curriculum.

The College will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified students to fulfill the requirements of the program. Students, faculty, and staff are required to utilize this policy and its procedures in order to request, authorize, and/or implement reasonable accommodations.

A student’s failure to comply with the policy and supplemental procedures may result in the denial of services. Although students are encouraged to identify their needs as early as possible, students have the right to request accommodations at any time during their enrollment.

Because students with similar accommodations may not equally benefit from the same auxiliary aid or service, the College will analyze each request on a case-by-case basis within the specific context of the activity in which the student plans to participate. The College has the right to select among equally effective methods of accommodating a student with a disability. The College also has the right to refuse an accommodation based on undue hardship to the College.

Accommodation requests and services are not retroactive, and therefore requests for accommodations should be made it a timely manner.