Rights and Responsibilities
Students, Faculty, Staff, and Guests with disabilities have the right to:
- Full and equal participation in the services and activities of the University of Arizona;
- Reasonable accommodations, academic/work adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Privacy and to not have confidential information freely disseminated throughout the campus;
- Limit access to confidential records. In doing so, however, disabled individuals recognize that implementing accommodations may become more difficult;
- Information readily available in accessible formats.
Students, Faculty, Staff and Guests with disabilities have the responsibility to:
- Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services, jobs and activities;
- 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 and activities; and
- Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic/work adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services; or when requesting barrier removal.
The University of Arizona has the right to:
- Establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs and activities or facilities and to evaluate individuals with disabilities on this basis;
- Determine the appropriate standards in developing, constructing, remodeling and maintaining facilities;
- Confirm disability status and request and receive current, relevant documentation that supports requests for accommodations, academic/work adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Have staff interact with individuals with disabilities to determine reasonable accommodations;
- Deny a request for accommodations, academic/work adjustments or auxiliary aids and services, and/or barrier removal in facilities if the documentation does not demonstrate that the request is warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation;
- Select among equally effective accommodations, academic/work adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services; and
- Refuse unreasonable accommodations, academic/work adjustments or auxiliary aids and services, and/or facility-related barrier removal requests that impose a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the university.
The University of Arizona 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 students, faculty, and staff on the basis of their abilities and not their disabilities;
- Respond to requests on a timely basis; and
- Provide or arrange reasonable accommodations, academic/work adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities
- Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law.