Faculty Responsibilities

Professors are notified that a student has a disability and requires accommodations through an accommodation plan. It is a student's responsibility to provide professors with this plan and faculty are required to provide the specified accommodations. However, without an official accommodation plan from the disabilities services office, there is no obligation to provide any accommodations. These plans are required to be updated each semester.

Some students with disabilities may choose not to register with the disabilities services office and approach faculty directly. In these situations, professors can decide whether or not they wish to accommodate students without a formal accommodation plan, or refer them to the disabilities services office for an official accommodation plan.

If faculty have concerns about a particular accommodation, it is best to obtain clarification through discussion with the student and his/her counsellor. Disabilities services offices are there to support faculty as well as students.