Identify yourself to the Director of Academic Success and Accessibility if you are seeking modifications
Provide documentation from the appropriate professional(s) that verifies the disability, functional limitations, and the need for specific modifications
Assume responsibility for utilizing modifications and notify the office of Academic Success and Accessibility, faculty, etc. when requesting modifications such as electronic texts and alternative testing
Assume personal responsibility for requesting assistance from faculty members and supplemental services such as tutors in the Academic Success Center
Provide for your personal independent living needs or other personal disability-related needs
Meet the College’s qualifications and maintain institutional standards
Student Rights
Equal access to College programs and services
Reasonable and/or auxiliary aids and services
Confidentiality of all information pertaining to your disability
Assistance from the office of Academic Success and Accessibility in removing any physical, academic, and attitudinal barriers
Great Falls College MSU Responsibilities
Evaluate students on the basis of their abilities and not their disabilities
Respond to requests on a timely basis
Maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication except where permitted or required by law
Provide or arrange reasonable modifications, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services
Great Falls College MSU Rights
Verify the need for reasonable modifications by requesting current documentation of a disability from the appropriate professional sources(s)
Deny a request for modifications if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation
Select among effective modifications and/or auxiliary aids and services
Refuse unreasonable modifications, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aid and service requests that impose a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the College, create an undue financial burden, or are considered “personal” in nature (i.e., personal aides, personal care attendant, individually prescribed devices, readers for personal use or study, or other devices or services of a personal nature
Contact Information
Katherine Meier, M. Ed. Director of Academic Success and Accessibility