Each student with an identified disability has the right to receive from St. Mary’s University:

• Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities offered through St. Mary’s University.
• Equal opportunity to work and learn, and to receive reasonable, effective and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding their disability and to choose to whom information about their disability will be disclosed, except as required by law.
• Information, reasonably available in accessible formats.

St. Mary’s University has the right to:

• Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, standards, and criteria for courses, programs, jobs and activities, and evaluate students based on their performance.
• Request and receive, through the Dean of Students, current documentation from an appropriate licensed professional source that supports requests for reasonable, effective and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Refuse to make available an accommodation, adjustment and/or auxiliary aid or service that is inappropriate, ineffective or unreasonable, including any that pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others, impose a substantial change to an essential element of course curriculum, or pose undue financial or administrative burden on St. Mary’s University's programs, activities, faculty or staff.

Each student with a disability has the responsibility to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services, jobs and activities, i.e., completing assigned work in courses undertaken.
• Identify themselves in a timely manner as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and seek information, counsel and assistance as necessary from appropriate sources designated by the University, preferably prior to the start of classes.
• Provide documentation from an appropriate licensed professional source, the qualifications of which are to be determined by the Dean of Students. Documentation should describe the exact nature of the disability and specifically state how the functional limitation affects the student's participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities when accommodation is sought, and should recommend the nature of an accommodation to provide the student equal access and opportunity.
• Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable, effective and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.

Please note that accommodations granted under IDEA and Section 504 plans established during the student's earlier educational environments do not automatically transfer to their experience at St. Mary's University. New requests for reasonable, effective and appropriate accommodations must be made through the Coordinator for Disabled Student Services and the Dean of Students.

St. Mary’s University has the responsibility to:

• Provide information regarding policies and procedures to students with disabilities and ensure that this information be provided 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 and applicants on their abilities and potentials, not their disabilities.
• Provide or arrange for reasonable, effective and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with identified disabilities in courses, programs, services, jobs and activities.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication concerning students with disabilities except where disclosure is required by the law or authorized by the student.