Rights and Responsibilities of Midwestern University

Rights:

1. To establish and require all students to meet the technical and academic standards for admission, progression, and completion of any Midwestern University program;
2. Maintain Midwestern University’s academic and technical standards;
3. Request current documentation from a student completed by an appropriate professional source to verify the need for, and make recommendations concerning, reasonable accommodations. MWU policy requires diagnostic testing done within the last 36 months must be provided in the documentation. Self-evaluation questionnaires, self-assessment surveys, and online diagnostic testing are not accepted as diagnostic of a disability;
4. Engage with the student in an interactive process in an attempt to understand the limitations caused by the impairment and assess the reasonableness of available accommodations;
5. Discuss a student’s need for reasonable accommodations with the professional source of their documentation with the student’s signed consent authorizing such discussion;
6. Select among equally effective and appropriate accommodations that may be different than any or all recommended accommodations;
7. Deny a request for accommodations if the documentation fails to verify the need for the requested services, or the documentation is not provided in a timely manner; and
8. Refuse to provide an accommodation(s) that is/are inappropriate or unreasonable including any that:
   1. Pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others;
   2. Constitute a substantial change or alteration to an essential element of a course or program.

Responsibilities:

1. Ensure that Midwestern University courses, programs, services, job opportunities, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are offered in the most integrated and appropriate settings possible;
2. Provide information regarding policies and procedures to students with disabilities and assure its availability in accessible formats upon request;
3. Evaluate students on their abilities, merit, and aptitude, not their disabilities;
4. Provide to a student reasonable and appropriate accommodations following a timely request and submission of all required documentation; and
5. Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication concerning students with disabilities except where disclosure is required by law or authorized by the student.