Tuesday, September 30, 2025
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Balance Accountability, Ensure Compliance & Uphold Community Standards

Student conduct practitioners must ensure they understand relevant American with Disability Act compliance laws and can adapt the conduct process to effectively and appropriately support students with reasonable accommodations.

Join our expert presenters on September 30, 2025, as they share their experience and knowledge of ADA compliance and student conduct programs. They will outline how you can ensure fair and impartial conduct processes for all students, helpful trainings for conduct administrators and hearing officers, and guidelines to establish clear protocols that promote consistency and compliance with the applicable laws and regulations.

This webinar will create space for administrators to assess and evaluate their current practices, identify potential gaps or concerns and address them proactively – before an accommodation request arises – so you are prepared to support students effectively.

Balance the unique needs of students with accommodations with your institution’s need to uphold community standards and due process.

Establish and/or revise fair and impartial conduct processes by creating proper policies and procedures prior to and during the student conduct process to ensure students with disabilities can be properly accommodated throughout.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you: 

• Identify when and how accessibility-related accommodations should be applied throughout the student conduct process—including intake, emergency measures, investigation, informal resolution, hearings and outcomes.
• Articulate legal and practical standards to update current policies/procedures pertaining to ADA guidelines and your student conduct process to ensure a fair and inclusive process.
• Collaborate with disability/accessibility services, legal counsel, and Title IX offices to ensure clear and consistent communication about accommodations.
• Evaluate current hearing board and staff training content for Americans with Disabilities Act-related awareness, implicit bias, and procedural fairness—especially when engaging students who have invisible disabilities.
• Implement a program-review checklist to assess student conduct programs and identify opportunities for growth, enhancement and compliance.
• Understand when student misconduct may be a manifestation of a disability and how it may be a mitigating factor.

Presenters

Dr. Nikki Kogan currently serves the Florida Atlantic University community as the Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution.
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Janelle Freire currently serves as the Assistant Director of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.
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