Statement of Intention to Foster Student Independence
To foster independence in the students it serves, The Disability Resource Center (DRC) seeks to:
- Provide individual services to students with disabilities after students identify and register with the DRC.
- Publicize DRC services and availability.
- Empower students with information about their rights and responsibilities.
- Offer tools that students can use to advocate for their rights within the University system.
- Encourage students to interact with faculty and staff regarding their disabilities and accommodation needs.
- Limit the DRC's interaction with faculty and staff to an informational and educational capacity.
- Encourage faculty and staff to interact directly with students regarding accommodations.
- Educate the University community to help create an attitudinal milieu that is more conducive to student inclusion.
- Work with Campus Planning to create a more accessible campus.
- Allow students to choose when they want services from the DRC:
- Students have the right to decline the DRC's assistance.
- Students have the right to succeed or to fail.
- Students have the right to choose their own academic process.
- Students have the right to choose their own course of treatment.
- Students have the right to face the consequences of their own actions.
Revised February 2009