Policies: Student Rights: ADA:

Each student with an identified disability has the right to receive from ACC:

• Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities offered through ACC.
• Equal opportunity to work and learn, and 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. ACC follows federal guidelines regarding control of and access to disability-related information. All such information is stored in locked files with access limited to designated staff.
• Information, reasonably available in accessible formats.

ACC 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 current documentation from an appropriate licensed professional source that supports requests for accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Deny as request for accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids or services if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted, the documentation presented fails to identify a specific disability, or the student fails to provide appropriate documentation in a timely manner.
• Select among equally effective and appropriate accommodations, adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services in consultation with students with documented disabilities and in collaboration with faculty and staff who have contact with them.
• 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 ACC'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 taken.
• 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 ACC, preferably prior to the start of classes.
• Provide documentation from an appropriate licensed professional source describing the nature of the disability and how the disability limits the student's participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities.
• Follow published procedures for obtaining effective and appropriate accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.
• Procedures are published in the Alpena Community College Student Handbook.

ACC has the responsibility to:

• Provide information regarding policies and procedures to students with disabilities and assure 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 potential, not their disabilities.
• Provide or arrange for effective, appropriate and reasonable 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.