RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Rights and Responsibilities of People with Disabilities

People with disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke have the RIGHT to:

• Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities offered through the university;
• An equal opportunity to work and to learn and to receive reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
• Appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding their disability and to choose to whom, outside of UNC-P, information about their disability will be disclosed, except as disclosures are required or permitted by law;
• Information which is reasonably available in accessible formats.

People with disabilities at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke have the RESPONSIBILITY to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• Identify themselves as individuals with disabilities when accommodations are needed and 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, activities, and facilities; and,
• Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.

Rights and Responsibilities of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke

UNC-P has the RIGHT to:

• Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities and to evaluate students on this basis;
• Request and receive, through Disability Support Services, current documentation that supports requests for accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services;
• Deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and/or services if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation;
• Select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services;
• Refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid and/or service that imposes a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the university.

UNC-P 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 setting;
• Evaluate students and applicants on their abilities and not their disabilities;
• Provide or arrange reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with disabilities in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except where permitted or required by law.