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Faculty Rights & Responsibility

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Rights

To determine course content and general methods of teaching.
To make informed decisions about how to best adapt their teaching and assessment methods to accommodate all students.
To ensure that the standards in their courses are not lowered or compromised.
To request a written agreement before allowing the student to tape record a class. (Forms available in the Office of Academic Support.)
To expect students to adhere to the College’s code of conduct regardless of disability or impairment.
To use CASA as a testing center for extended time exams.
To challenge an accommodation if the accommodation would result in a fundamental alteration of the program or if the accommodation would result in undue financial or administrative burden.

Responsibilities

To acknowledge that students who present Documentation Confirmation have provided adequate and appropriate documentation to the Office of Academic Support.
To respect student confidentiality with regard to specifics of their disability.
To assume shared responsibility in providing reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities.
To refer students who present medical statements directly to the instructor to the Office of Academic Support.
To refuse academic accommodations unless in receipt of a Documentation Confirmation form from the Office of Academic Support.
To include a “Reasonable Accommodation” statement on the course syllabus.

For further information, please contact Ms. LaDonna Bridges, Director of Academic Support, at 508-626-4906 or lbridges@framingham.edu.