At Wayne State College, the accommodation process involves collaboration between the student, the Disability Services Office, and faculty and staff. Each party has specific rights and responsibilities to uphold. 

Student rights:

• Receive necessary, reasonable accommodations and support services to allow equal access to Wayne State.
• Participate in, and benefit from, courses, programs, services and activities offered through WSC.
• To be treated by faculty and staff with dignity and respect.
• Have discussions of their disability kept in confidence until permission of disclosure is given.
• Report a grievance to Disability Services if they feel that their disability related needs are not being met.

Student responsibilities:

• Identify themselves as an individual with a disability when seeking an accommodation.
• Provide current documentation from an appropriate professional source that verifies the nature of the disability, functional limitations, and the need for specific accommodations.
• Request accommodations each semester.
• Notify Disability Services of any schedule changes after initial registration if they affect accommodations.
• Meet Wayne State’s qualifications including academic and institutional standards.
• Follow Wayne State’s Academic and Conduct Standards.

Wayne State College rights:

• Establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs and activities or facilities and to evaluate students on this basis.
• Determine the appropriate standards in developing, constructing, remodeling and maintaining facilities.
• Request and receive current, relevant documentation that supports requests for accommodations.
• Discuss students’ accommodations with faculty and/or staff in order to implement approved requests.
• Select among equally effective accommodations.
• Deny a request for accommodations if the documentation does not demonstrate that the request is reasonable and appropriate, if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation, or if the accommodation imposes a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the college.

Disability Services responsibilities:

• Provide information to faculty, staff, students and guests with disabilities in accessible formats upon request.
• Ensure that courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities are accessible.
• Provide or arrange reasonable accommodations 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. 

Faculty and staff responsibilities:

• Provide and/or permit the use of approved accommodations to students when notified by Disability Services.
• Ensure that accommodations do not compromise academic standards or fundamentally alter the nature of the course.
• Refer students with a disability to Disability Services.
• Include WSC’s Disability Services syllabus statement.
• Provide exams and proctoring instructions to Disability Services prior to the scheduled exam.
• Contact Amber Willoughby, Coordinator of Disability Services, at 402-375-7451 or [email protected] with questions, concerns, or clarification, if needed.