UNH Rights and Responsibilities

UNH 2008-2009 Student Rights, Rules & Responsibilities Guidelines

The University of New Hampshire has the right to:

• Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, requirements, and standards for courses, programs, services, and activities, and to evaluate students on this basis.
• Request and receive, through DSS, 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 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 service that imposes a fundamental alteration of a program or activity of the University.

The University of New Hampshire has the responsibility to:

• Provide information to students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request.
• Ensure that courses, programs, services, and activities when viewed in their entirety, are available in the most integrated and appropriate settings.
• Evaluate students on their abilities and not their disabilities.
• Provide or arrange for reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for students with disabilities in courses, programs, services, and activities.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law or when the student requests that such information is shared.