Thursday, January 16, 2025
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Navigate Various Types of Departures and Readmissions with Confidence

Administrators grapple with balancing the ADA requirements, behavior threats, harm to self or others and campus policy development regarding the health and well-being of students and others, being forced to make difficult decisions with regards to their dismissal and readmission policies.  It is imperative that staff understand the law to better understand your institutional policies, the implementation of those policies and to have the confidence necessary to share those difficult outcomes with students and their families.

Join us on Thursday, January 16, 2025, when our expert presenter – Attorney Hannah Ross – will focus on dismissal policies and the ADA exceptions that may need to be further refined. She will provide you with practical advice on what you can do to address safety concerns, while ensuring compliance with the law. You will examine the relevant guidance and the latest case studies involving student suicides and serious harm to others to support the hard decisions you will inevitably have to make on your campus.

Increase your understanding of the highest-risk student situations, create the right policies to protect your institution and students, and generate the confidence you will need to explain policies and the decisions you make to students and their families.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:

• Draft institutional policies to ensure compliance with the law, and support decision making by administrators and behavioral intervention teams.
• Navigate various types of departures and readmissions (leave of absence, withdrawal, disciplinary sanction) successfully based on the most up-to-date information on relevant laws, including the ADA and Section 504.
• Understand the legal framework to develop policies that require evaluations, individualized assessment, and medical leaves and/or involuntary withdrawals.
• Prepare to identify high-risk situations where student safety must be protected.
• Foster the necessary confidence staff will need to explain medical or involuntary separation decisions to students and their families.
  

Presenter

Hannah Ross currently serves as the General Counsel, Chief of Staff, and Secretary to the Corporation at Middlebury College in Vermont.
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