Student Access Services
Student Access Services (SAS), housed in the Student Academic Hub, partners with students with disabilities to help them:
- register with SAS as a student with a disability;
- request reasonable accommodation(s) to gain access to their academic experience ; and
- navigate successfully through their academics by becoming more self-aware of their unique learning patterns and disability-related challenges.
Accommodation services are offered to students with the goal of reducing the impact of their impairment(s) and providing equal opportunity to engage in Marymount’s rich learning environment. Marymount does not actively or openly identify students who are in need of disability support services and/or accommodations out of respect for their privacy and autonomy. Hence, students who wish to pursue accommodations are asked to self-disclose their significant impairment to a SAS representative. That information is kept confidentially.
Students requesting reasonable accommodation(s) to be reviewed for approval are strongly encouraged to initiate a dialogue with SAS as early as possible. Doing so will allow SAS sufficient time to:
- understand the degree and impact of the student’s significant impairment; and
- determine what access (disability-based accommodations) are necessary and academic supports might be available to the student.
All accommodation requests need to:
- be directly related to the student’s self disclosed documented disability; and
- detailed severity level, frequency and impacted areas of their disability and the impairment limits the student’s ability to engage in a typical academic experience.
In order to establish a record of an existing disability, students need to submit appropriate clinical documentation completed by the student’s relevant licensed physical or mental healthcare provider/professionals to SAS (access@marymount.edu) that submitted with the SAS Registration Packet completing their written request for their accommodation(s) request to be reviewed. Information which describes SAS documentation criteria is located on the SAS pages of Marymount’s website.
Students who have been approved by SAS to receive academic accommodations will be emailed an official SAS accommodation letter each semester known as a Faculty Contact Sheet (FCS). It is important for students to request that their instructors sign their accommodation letters during this dialog. These signatures inform SAS whether or not accommodations are understood, agreed upon, and collaboratively applied by student and instructor.
Also, SAS authorizes student accommodations for housing, dining, emotional support animals, and other non-academic modifications. More information can be found in the SAS section of Marymount’s website.