Student Rights & Responsibilities
Access Services wants to empower all students to understand their eligibility for services and make informed choices about their education and campus experience.
As an ECC Student receiving Access Services students have the Right to:
- Choose when and to whom you will disclose your disability.
- Be evaluated based on your ability not your disability. If the disability affects the outcome of an evaluation method, you are entitled to evaluation by alternative means.
- An equal opportunity to learn and participate in courses, programs, services, and extracurricular activities offered by ECC.
- Reasonable accommodations and adjustments when needed to the location, delivery system, or instructional methodology to achieve equal access.
- Decide whether to use the curricular or co-curricular accommodations for which you have been approved.
- Seek resolution to concerns about access, discrimination, or decisions concerning accommodations, through the College’s policy for filing informal and formal grievances.
- All other rights and privileges available to other students at ECC.
Students also have the Responsibility to:
- Self-identify as a student with a disability by completing the Access Services application.
- Demonstrate and/or provide documentation from a qualified professional identifying how the disability impacts areas of functional impairment.
- Explain how the functional limitations impact the equitable participation in college courses, programs, services, and/or activities and why accommodations are necessary.
- Disclose accommodations to instructors and arrange accommodations with each instructor throughout the course/semester.
- Meet and maintain ECC academic and technical standards, and abide by the Student Code of Conduct
- Follow Access Services procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, abide by testing center policies, and/or honor adaptive technology agreements.
- Inform Access Services of any concerns about classroom accommodations, harassing or discriminatory treatment related to disability, or access issues on campus as soon as the issues arise.
