Expectations
- Documentation:
- Kōkua ʻIke must receive professional documentation of a student’s disability in a timely manner prior to services being initiated.
- Accommodations:
- Students and faculty should work collaboratively with Kōkua ʻIke to facilitate academic accommodations.
- Kōkua ʻIke does not grant retroactive nor unreasonable accommodations, modifications, and/or auxiliary aids and services. For example, accommodations cannot impose undue hardship to, or fundamentally alter a program or activity of the University.
Responsibilities
- Documentation:
- Collect, evaluate, and securely maintain professional documentation of a disability and determine eligibility for accommodations.
- Confidentiality:
- Respect and maintain a student’s privacy about disability information and accommodations.
- Meet with the student privately in an accessible location to discuss disability-related needs.
- Accommodations:
- Assure that qualified students with disabilities have equal access to University programs and services.
- Along with the student, take a leading role in arranging and providing accommodations in a timely manner.
- Provide appropriate academic accommodations in collaboration with the instructor and the student.
- Provide print materials in accessible format once the faculty member and student identify the material to be converted.
- Recruit and hire appropriate service providers for academic accommodations as needed.
- Assist faculty to facilitate accommodations.
- Provide assistive technology applications, equipment as required and based upon an assessment of the student’s needs
- Policy and Procedures:
- Maintain the academic and conduct standards of the University.
- Develop written policies/procedures to meet the University’s responsibilities to students with disabilities.
- Disseminate information about needs and rights of students with disabilities to the campus community.
- Communication:
- Communicate policies/procedures clearly to the student and the faculty.
- Consult and/or provide training assistance to campus constituents.
