Academic accommodations

The university takes seriously its responsibility to provide reasonable accommodation under the BC Human Rights Code. This is reflected in UVic's Academic Accommodation Policy (AC1205), which was revised and approved by Senate in 2024 following three years of consultations with faculty, staff, students and legal experts.

Learn more about UVic's approach to academic accommodations, including supports for instructors.

Students registered with the Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL)

We are encouraged by the growing number of students with disabilities transitioning successfully from the K-12 system.

Graph showing the increase in the number of UVic students registered with CAL

Source: Centre for Accessible Learning

Resourcing for academic accommodations (CAL and OREM)

While the university has increased support for academic accommodations each year—even amid broader budget reductions and constraints—sustainable solutions require more than additional funding. The increasing demand and the diverse needs of our student population require us to rethink and redesign our approaches.

Graph showing the increase in budget for CAL and OREM over time

Source: FAST Finance

Benchmarking

We recognize the complex and evolving challenges related to academic accommodations facing the post-secondary sector. As recent national coverage in CBC and The Globe and Mail has highlighted, these are issues that many institutions are navigating.

Students with disabilities who transition to research universities

Source: Student Transitions Project (2023-24), Government of British Columbia

Table depicting benchmarking data

Source: UVic participates annually in the Canadian Undergraduate Survey Consortium. The 2023 survey of middle-year students (those in second and third year of a four-year undergraduate degree) self-report the following levels of “disabilities and impairments.” UVic is part of Group 2, which include mid-sized and large universities.