Faculty play an important role in creating and maintaining an accessible learning environment, while at the same time maintaining academic standards. As part of its mission to advocate for and accessible environment and to assist faculty . In making accommodations, Disability Services offers some of the following:
This is Disability Services Director Jim Marks' pejorative checklist for faculty about informing students about and making reasonable accommodations, with the strong implication that academic standards are good for students with disabilities, too.
This handbook gives a more in-depth discussion of civil rights for students with disabilities, directed toward faculty.
This award-winning policy statement, written primarily for students, contains a number of useful items for faculty as well. For example, discussions of respective faculty, student and institutional responsibilities.
The University’s ADA-504 Team encourages faculty members to inform students of their intent to accommodate them. This notice invites students to initiate the accommodation process in a respectful and effective way.