Students with Disabilities and the Conduct Process – On-Demand Training

Reasonable Accommodations to Ensure a Fair and Inclusive Process

Part of every student’s transition into the community and overarching developmental journey is navigating a new environment with new rules and expectations. Occasionally, issues happen and development necessarily includes engagement with the student conduct system, from general conduct through academic standards through Title IX. Engagement in those processes requires ADA accommodation and attendant care, just as all other areas of the institution require accommodations to ensure access.

Understanding and complying with federal laws and regulations around accommodations is no longer just the responsibility of legal counsel. Every area of campus plays a role in ensuring your institution is compliant with federal and state laws and Student Affairs, including Student Conduct, plays a large part in that. Help your staff members understand their legal responsibilities, recognize hidden disabilities and collaborate with key resources on campus so they can provide navigable processes that contribute to students’ academic success and development. 

Join our campus legal expert for this on-demand training where we explore the intersections between the ADA, accessibility and student conduct. 

Ensure that your students with disabilities are successful in the navigation of student conduct processes. Our expert presenter will help your team keep this student population engaged, ensure there is an equal opportunity for success in learning and development, and that you are doing everything you need to keep your institution compliant.

Topics Covered

You will take away critical, actionable tools that will help you:

• Gain the necessary knowledge to comply with each of the federal laws dealing with accessibility in the student conduct process — avoid a legal quagmire caused by confusion and lack of confidence about how to proceed. 
• Create policies and procedures to protect your institution's mission and ensure a healthy, supportive learning community — provide appropriate options that will engage and support students in the conduct system in need of accommodations. 
• Provide staff with systematic “gatekeeper” training to help everyone recognize and respond to students in need of accommodations and resources — in recognizing accommodation needs, develop relationships with university and community partners to support those needs through assistive technology, universal design and other appropriate accommodations. 
• Proactively incorporate ADA standards into conduct practices and procedures — foster an affirming and supportive environment for all students so that you can support their development as members of the campus community. 

Presenter

Amber L. Grove is the Director of Title IX and Clery Compliance at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and has served in that role since January 2016. Amber also chaired University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Transgender Issues Committee. Additionally, she served as the Interim ADA/504 Coordinator for the 2020-2021 academic year.
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