Students Rights
Students with disabilities at MSC have the right to:

• Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities offered by the college;
• Equal opportunity to work, learn, and receive accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services;
• Confidentiality of information regarding their disability as applicable laws allow;
• Information available in accessible formats.

Student Responsibilities
Students with disabilities at MSC have the responsibility to:

• Meet qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for the programs, courses, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• Identify to Disability Support Services as having a disability in order to receive accommodations and to seek information, counsel and assistance as necessary;
• Provide documentation to Disability Support Services from a qualified professional about how their disability limits participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids services from the MSC Student Handbook for Disabilities.

College Rights:
MSC has the right to:

• Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities and to evaluate faculty, staff, and students on this basis;
• Request and receive, through Disability Support Services, current documentation from a qualified professional 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 does not demonstrate that the request is warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation;
• Select among equally effective accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services;
• Refuse to provide an accommodation, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services that imposes a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the college.

College Responsibilities:
MSC has the responsibility to:

• Accommodate the known limitations of an otherwise qualified student with a disability;
• Provide information to faculty, staff, and students with disabilities in accessible formats upon request;
• Ensure that courses, programs, courses, services, jobs, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings;
• Evaluate faculty, staff, students, and applicants on their abilities, not their disabilities;
• Provide or arrange accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services for faculty, staff, and students with disabilities in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
• To maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except where permitted or required by law;
• To maintain academic standards by providing accommodations without compromising the content, quality, or level of instruction.