Rights and Responsibilities of the University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota 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 Services, current documentation 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 demonstrates that the request is not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation;
• select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
• refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid and service that imposes a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the University.

The University of Minnesota has the responsibility to:

• provide information to faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in accessible formats upon request;
• ensure that courses, programs, 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 and not their disabilities;
• provide or arrange reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services for faculty, staff, students, and guests 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.