{"id":401,"date":"2019-09-11T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-disability-services\/?page_id=401"},"modified":"2024-04-17T19:48:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:48:50","slug":"faculty-and-student-confidentiality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/faculty-3\/faculty-and-student-confidentiality\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and Student Confidentiality"},"content":{"rendered":"

At<\/span> every College or University campus, one person or office is charged with the responsibility of maintaining confidential, disability-related documentation for students with disabilities in order to determine reasonable accommodations for programs or courses. Disability Resources is that office at Macalester. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Justice has established that a faculty member generally<\/span> does not have a need to know<\/span><\/i> what a specific disability is, only that it has been appropriately verified by (Disability Resources) on behalf of the institution.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty <\/span>do have a right<\/span><\/em> to know accommodations<\/em> and how these may or may not impact what is essential in their courses; faculty <\/span>can<\/span><\/i> ask students to provide accommodation letters to substantiate accommodation requests. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

General guidelines for student confidentiality in courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. The Faculty Notification Letter<\/strong> serves as a confirmation of a student\u2019s disability and that they have been through the appropriate process to verify disability.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. When meeting with a student, discuss only how the indicated accommodations either would or would not fit into course parameters, not disability <\/span>specifics. In some cases, faculty may be informed of a specific disability to provide the best access for the student. <\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Students should not be asked to provide documentation to you directly. Asking for a \u201cdoctor\u2019s note\u201d to miss a class is generally not appropriate if the Faculty Notification Letter indicates accommodations for absence flexibility are needed. <\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Do not identify which students in your course require accommodations to other students\/colleagues who don\u2019t have a specific \u201cneed to know\u201d information.  Example: discussing if accommodation is appropriate with a Department Chair is reasonable, but not with other faculty colleagues who have no direct educational connection to your course.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. A good general rule:  Before sharing, ask, \u201cWho needs to know this and why?\u201d and for students, \u201cHow can I address their accommodations while respecting medical information?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have concerns? Please ask! We are here to support you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Note: accommodation concerns about student employees should be referred to Human Resources.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At every College or University campus, one person or office is charged with the responsibility of maintaining confidential, disability-related documentation for students with disabilities in order to determine reasonable accommodations for programs or courses. Disability Resources is that office at Macalester.  The Department of Justice has established that a faculty member generally does not have a […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":396,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions\/3375"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/disability-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}