Appropriate implementation of reasonable academic accommodations requires the engagement and collaboration of multiple parties. Students, AEC staff, and instructors each play a key role in facilitating academic accommodations.
Student Responsibilities
- Initiate registration with the AEC and engage in the interactive process to determine reasonable accommodations, including supplying appropriate supporting documentation of disability.
- Request notification letters through AEC Connect to inform instructors of their accommodations.
- Contact AEC regarding concerns or delays in receiving approved accommodations.
- Make requests by AEC deadlines (such as submitting exam requests by specified deadlines in order to take exams with AEC) and follow AEC procedures for specific accommodations (such as how to utilize an attendance accommodation).
AEC Staff Responsibilities
- Facilitate the interactive process with students who request disability accommodations.
- Evaluate requests for accommodations based on a combination of the student’s self-report, supporting documentation of disability, and AEC staff’s professional judgment.
- Identify reasonable accommodations and inform students about how to utilize their accommodations.
- Assist instructors who have questions or concerns about implementing an accommodation listed in a student’s notification letter.
- Facilitate fundamental alteration assessments when necessary.
- Respond appropriately to student concerns and grievances.
Instructor Responsibilities
- Provide accommodations as listed in students’ notification letters upon receipt.
- Take actions identified in notification letters and in subsequent communication from AEC, such as completing testing agreements, providing exams to AEC, and providing course materials for remediation to AEC.
- Contact AEC promptly with any questions or concerns related to approved accommodations.
- Refer students to AEC if they request a disability-related accommodation, but do not present a notification letter.
- Engage in fundamental alteration assessments with necessary, by providing information related to academic standards and course learning outcomes.