Student's Rights and Responsibilities
As a student with a disability at Morehouse School of Medicine, you have a right to:
- Choose when and to whom to disclose the disability.
- Equal access to courses, programs, services, and activities offered by the institution.
- Reasonable accommodations and adjustments, when needed, to achieve equal access.
- Decide whether to use the curricular and co-curricular accommodations for which you have been approved.
- Seek resolution to concerns about access or discrimination through the institution’s procedures for filing informal and formal grievances.
- All other rights and privileges available to other students at the institution.
As a student with a disability at Morehouse School of Medicine, you have a responsibility to:
- Meet qualifications of, participate in, and maintain the essential institutional standards for courses, programs and activities.
- Self-identify to OILAS as a qualified individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and seek information, counsel, and assistance as needed and in a timely manner.
- Demonstrate and/or provide documentation from an appropriately qualified professional explaining the way the disability limits participation in courses, programs and activities.
- Follow institution procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services.
- Inform OILAS of any concerns about classroom accommodations, disparate or disparaging treatment related to disability, or access issues on campus as soon as the issue arises.