Academic Success and Accessibility

Rights and Responsibilities

Student Responsibilities

• Identify yourself to the Director of Academic Success and Accessibility if you are seeking modifications
• Provide documentation from the appropriate professional(s) that verifies the disability, functional limitations, and the need for specific modifications
• Assume responsibility for utilizing modifications and notify the office of Academic Success and Accessibility, faculty, etc. when requesting modifications such as electronic texts and alternative testing
• Assume personal responsibility for requesting assistance from faculty members and supplemental services such as tutors in the Academic Success Center
• Provide for your personal independent living needs or other personal disability-related needs
• Meet the College’s qualifications and maintain institutional standards 

Student Rights

• Equal access to College programs and services
• Reasonable and/or auxiliary aids and services
• Confidentiality of all information pertaining to your disability
• Assistance from the office of Academic Success and Accessibility in removing any physical, academic, and attitudinal barriers 

Great Falls College MSU Responsibilities

• Evaluate students on the basis of their abilities and not their disabilities
• Respond to requests on a timely basis
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law
• Provide or arrange reasonable modifications, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services 

Great Falls College MSU Rights

• Verify the need for reasonable modifications by requesting current documentation of a disability from the appropriate professional sources(s)
• Deny a request for modifications if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation
• Select among effective modifications and/or auxiliary aids and services
• Refuse unreasonable modifications, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aid and service requests that impose a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the College, create an undue financial burden, or are considered “personal” in nature (i.e., personal aides, personal care attendant, individually prescribed devices, readers for personal use or study, or other devices or services of a personal nature