These guidelines promulgate policies and procedures that students of Kendall College should follow when seeking disability accommodations, and/or when disputing decisions that Kendall makes in response to accommodation requests. These guidelines are designed to comply with the disability accommodation requirements of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) of 1990. For more information about Kendall’s disability accommodation policies, see the school’s Academic Success Center (“ASC”).
I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Kendall does not discriminate on the basis of disability in any of its programs, services or activities. The school will not deny any otherwise qualified student with a disability the opportunity to participate in, or benefit from, any aid, benefit or service that Kendall provides. Kendall will also strive to accommodate applicants and students with disabilities on an individual basis.
Kendall College strives to ensure that all disabled students have full access to the benefits of the College. As such, Kendall will engage in a good-faith interactive process with all disabled students to attempt to identify reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodations do not include measures which fundamentally alter the academic programs of Kendall College, or which place an undue financial burden on the school, or which may endanger the student or others at the College.
II. REQUESTING ACCOMMODATIONS
Students requiring accommodations must first provide professional verification of the condition(s) that necessitate the accommodations.
Students with physical disabilities must provide verification by a licensed health care provider who is qualified to diagnose the disability being claimed. Verification may be made by forms available at the ASC (i.e., the ASC will provide the forms to the students who will then have the forms filled out by their respective medical providers). The verification must indicate how the student is limited by his or her disability (e.g., cannot sit for periods longer than 30 minutes, cannot see or hear beyond certain distances, etc.), and how long the limitation(s) is/are expected to last. The student shall provide the verification documentation to the ASC. The ASC may ask the student to provide additional verification if the initial verification the student provides is incomplete or inadequate to determine the need for accommodations.
Students with learning disabilities must provide professional testing and evaluation results which reflect the students’ present levels of achievement and information processing. The ASC can provide more information about eligibility for learning disability adjustments or accommodations, as well as documentation criteria. The cost of obtaining professional verification of a learning disability shall be borne by the student.
III. GRANTING ACCOMMODATIONS
The ASC will review all documents submitted to verify a disability and will conduct a personal interview to explore the particular needs of the student requesting an accommodation. The student may be asked to submit a history, if any, of academic adjustments and/or accommodations received in secondary or post-secondary institutions, or in places of employment. Such a history of adjustments and/or accommodations will be subject to verification by the institution or place of employment that facilitated the adjustments or accommodations.
After considering the verification documents, the results of the personal interview, and the history of academic adjustments and accommodations, the ASC will devise a schedule of academic adjustments and/or accommodations appropriate for the individual student. The student shall be notified, in writing, of the ASC’s accommodation decision promptly after it has been made. Unless the student challenges the decision subject to the provisions of Section IV below, the ASC’s accommodation decision will be implemented as soon as is practicable. Every student who receives accommodations and/or academic adjustments shall meet upon request with the ASC to evaluate the effectiveness of the accommodations and/or adjustments in place. Each student shall immediately report any dissatisfaction with an accommodation or academic adjustment to the ASC. Kendall faculty and staff will be informed of qualifying students’ accommodations and/or academic adjustments on a need-to-know basis.
IV. CHALLENGING ACCOMMODATION DECISION
If a student does not feel that an accommodation decision will adequately address the student’s disability, then the student should contact the Vice President of Academic Affairs. After reviewing the case, the Vice President of Academic Affairs will make a determination about what accommodation(s) will be offered to the student. Accommodation decisions by the Vice President of Academic Affairs are final.
Kendall College respects and understands the importance of privacy and security for our online customers.
Kendall College gathers several types of information about our visitors: personally identifiable data that prospective students provide when inquiring about academic programs, information about how many people visit our site and information supplied by their Web browers, and personal contact information supplied by visitors signing up for services provided and transmitted by Kendall College or other promotions such as our dining services, courses and various surveys. Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers or e-mail addresses online my receive telephone or e-mail contact from us with information regarding special promotions, new products and services or upcoming events. Customers who subscribe to the electronic newsletter and wish to remove themselves from the electronic newsletter mailing list may follow the instructions included in every newsletter. In order to utilize the Kendall College Apply Online program, you must enable cookies on your computer so we can verify your login credentials and ensure that unauthorized users are not able to gain access to your application. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you have the option to change your browser to decline them.
Kendall College will not release, sell, rent or trade your personally identifiable information to any third partyexcept as necessary for the purposes of marketing, delivering, and evaluating our own programs or those of other colleges and universities affiliated with Laureate Education, Inc. Kendall College will not disclose any of your personal information, except as described above, or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, or to protect the rights or property of Kendall College.
Kendall College tracks visitor traffic patterns throughout our site. However, we do not correlate this information with personally identifiable data such as your name or street address. Kendall College may/does break down overall usage statistics according to a visitor's domain name, browser type, and MIME type using the information supplied by the user's Web browser, such as IP address, browser type, version and platform. Kendall College does disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to prospective constituencies, partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Kendall College uses reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to us secure and to disclose such information where appropriate only to third parties we believe to be responsible. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties which receive the information. Kendall College also links to a wide variety of other sites. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or how they treat information about their users.
We reserve the right to change or update the Kendall College Privacy Policy at any time by posting a notice in this policy announcing that it has changed. The notice will include access to the prior privacy policy and the dates it applied. The updated Kendall College Privacy Policy will list a new effective date. If you continue to use our Website, you are agreeing to be covered by the updated Kendall College Application privacy policy.
Questions and comments about this policy should be sent to Support @kendall.edu or you may telephone 312-752-2548.
Effective Date: 4/15/2008