Reasonable Accommodations
Reasonable accommodation does not negate requirements for successful completion of a program, course, service and/or activity, adherence to generally acceptable standards of behavior, and the College’s general and academic student rights and responsibilities, and adherence to administrative and faculty/staff directions and instructions.
In determining the College’s ability to offer reasonable accommodation to an otherwise qualified student with a disability, each request for an accommodation will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Support Services Coordinator (SSC). Factors to be examined include, among others:
- The academic and technical standards required for admission or participation in an education program or service.
- The purpose and nature of the program, course, and/or service.
- The precise education-related abilities and functional limitations of the student and how those limitations could be overcome with reasonable accommodation.
- The nature and cost of accommodation required in relation to the College’s financial resources.
- The consequences of such an accommodation upon the operation and educational mission of the College, course, program, service and/or activity; and
- Other federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.
Accommodations Not Considered Reasonable
An otherwise qualified student who requires attendant care services must make arrangements to provide for his/her own attendant care services. The College does not assume the coordination or financial responsibilities for attendant care services.
The College is not required to offer or provide accommodation to admit or to continue to admit an individual with a disability to any particular program, course, service, and/or to provide educational opportunities and other services when:
- the educational standards or mission of Lynchburg College would be substantially altered;
- the nature of the program, course, service and/or activity would be fundamentally altered;
- the student is not otherwise qualified (with or without accommodations) to meet the academic and technical standards required for admission or participation in an education program, course, service and/or activity;
- the effects of the disability cannot be overcome even with reasonable accommodation;
- the individual would not be able to complete the program, course, service and/or activity, even with reasonable accommodation;
- an undue financial or administrative hardship (College-wide) would be caused by the accommodation;
- if the individual would still pose a direct threat to the health or safety of himself/herself or others.