Rights and Responsibilities of Students
Every student with a documented disability has the right to:
- Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities offered at HU.
- Reasonable accommodations and/or services determined on a case-by-case basis.
- Appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding a disability and the choice to whom a disability is disclosed except as required or permitted by law.
- Dialogue with HU to arrive at effective accommodation strategy upon satisfactory documentation.
- Necessary information, reasonably available in accessible formats.
Every student with a documented disability has the obligation to:
- Meet qualifications and essential standards as determined by HU for courses, programs, jobs, services, and facilities.
- Identify as an individual with a disability to Student Success in a timely manner when seeking accommodations.
- When seeking accommodations, provide documentation of the disability from an appropriate professional including information about the functional limitations of the disability.
- Follow specific procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations and/or services.
- Communicate requests for accommodations to instructors by providing the access letter(s) describing the reasonable accommodations approved by Student Success as early in the semester as possible.
- Begin the process of renewing their accommodations at least 60 days prior to expiration.
- Communicate with Student Success if they feel adjustments to their accommodations are necessary.
Rights and Responsibilities of Harrisburg University
Harrisburg University (HU) has the legal right to:
- Maintain essential standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities.
- Request current documentation from an appropriate professional and supplied by the student that confirms disability status and supports the need for appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or services.
- Deny a request for accommodations and/or services if documentation does not support a need for the requested service or if the documentation is not provided in a timely manner.
- Provide equally effective accommodations and/or services as judged appropriate by HU after discussing with the student.
- Deny a request for an inappropriate or unreasonable accommodation or service including any that poses a direct threat to the health and safety of others, imposes a fundamental alteration to a course or program, or places an undue burden on HU.
Harrisburg University (HU) has the obligation to:
- Ensure that courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are offered in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
- Provide information regarding policies and procedures to students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request.
- Evaluate students based on their abilities and not their disabilities.
- Provide or arrange reasonable and appropriate accommodations and/or services for students with disabilities upon request.
- Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication regarding students with disabilities, except where permitted or required by law.
- Inform students when requested accommodations are not available or beyond HU’s ability to provide.