Student Rights and Responsibilities
Students with identified disabilities have the right to:
Students with disabilities are responsible to:
- Full and equal participation in and access to the courses, programs, services and activities of Loyola University Chicago;
- Reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Privacy and confidentiality of information regarding disability;
- Reasonably available information in accessible formats.
Students with disabilities are responsible to:
- Meet institutional qualifications and maintain essential institutional standards for courses, programs, services, and activities;
- Identify him or herself in a timely manner as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and seek information, counsel and assistance as necessary, preferably prior to classes;
- Provide documentation from an appropriate licensed professional source:
- Documentation should include a description of the nature of the disability and how it limits the student’s participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities and facilities when accommodations are sought;
- Documentation should also include recommendations of the nature of accommodations to provide equal access and opportunity to the student with a disability;
- Follow published university procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids and services.