• A change or adjustment to the education environment necessary to afford an equal opportunity to access and/or participate in an educational program or activity. In other words, a reasonable accommodation is to “level the playing field” for students with disabilities and provide equal access to University’s programs and activities.
• Prospective, not retroactive. Accommodations will not generally reverse performance or behavioral concerns which arose prior to the requested accommodation.

Reasonable accommodations might include the provision of academic adjustments or auxiliary aids and services.

• Classroom accessibility
• Copies of instructor’s notes
• Preferential seating
• Test taking accommodations

• A fundamental alteration of the essential characteristics or nature of a program or activity. For instance, an accommodation cannot compromise the academic integrity of a course and/or program by significantly changing the course, program, or experience. Students are expected to meet these essential qualifications, standards, and requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• The exact accommodation requested. The University may provide alternate accommodations to those requested as long as they are reasonable and effective to make the University’s programs, activities, services, and facilities accessible to that individual.
• One that constitutes an undue hardship or burden, meaning that the accommodation would be unduly costly, extensive, substantial or disruptive. Among the factors to be considered in determining whether an accommodation is an undue hardship are the nature and cost of the accommodation, and the overall size, financial resources and the nature and structure of a department’s operation.