Rights

Instructor rights:

• Maintain academic standards for courses
• Determine course content and how it will be taught
• Confirm a student's request for accommodations and ask for clarification about a specific accommodation with CAL
• Deny a request for accommodation - if the student has not been approved for such accommodation
• Award grades appropriate to the level of the student's demonstration of mastery of material
• Fail a student who does not perform to passing standards

Instructors do not have the right to:

• Refuse to provide an approved accommodation for a documented disability
• Challenge the legitimacy of a student's disability
• Review a student's documentation, including diagnostic data