Faculty Information
The information presented in this section will provide guidance to faculty in working with C.L.A.S.S. and students with disabilities.
The Center for Learning Assistance and Support Services is committed to a reasonable approach in the identification of students with disabilities. The C.L.A.S.S. office will contact all students who have voluntarily identified themselves in writing as having a disability after the college admission process is completed.
Faculty who are approached by students requesting accommodation directly should refer those students to the C.L.A.S.S. office. Instructors are not obligated to provide accommodations to students who do not provide appropriate correspondence from the C.L.A.S.S. documenting the need for such accommodations.
If a student offers to provide documentation of their disability directly to faculty, the faculty should refer the student to the C.L.A.S.S. office. Faculty should not hold documentation of a student's disability in their personal files.
Faculty members who observe student difficulties that are indicative of a disability may refer that student to the C.L.A.S.S. office. Please remain sensitive to the situation and do not infer that you believe the student has a disability.
Reasonable accommodations and academic modifications are determined by the C.L.A.S.S. office based upon the specific needs of the student as identified by the C.L.A.S.S. and the academic requirements of the appropriate department or program. Recommendations for accommodations cited in a psycho-educational assessment or from medical health personnel will be considered. However, the C.L.A.S.S. office reserves the right to prescribe/provide accommodations its professional staff determines appropriate to the disability. Degree modifications such as a course substitution, also requires approval by the appropriate academic college Director and, in the case of a college requirement, the Academic Provost.
General Procedures
The student is responsible for submitting a copy of his or her current C.L.A.S.S. schedule and course syllabi from every course being taken each semester for which he or she is requesting accommodations. The student should complete, sign and submit an Accommodation Request form for the accommodation(s) that will be needed. Request forms are available at the C.L.A.S.S. office, as well as on line. Academic accommodations approved by the administrator will then be listed on the accommodation letter provided to the student by the Center, to be given to the student’s current instructor(s).
- The accommodation letter must be picked up from the C.L.A.S.S. office by the student and given to the faculty member by the student at the beginning of each semester or as soon as the student becomes eligible for accommodations. The C.L.A.S.S. office will not automatically notify faculty of the presence or needs of a student with a disability in an on-site course. It is the student’s responsibility to do so.
- The C.L.A.S.S. office will notify instructors of distance education C.L.A.S.S.es who have students with disabilities requiring accommodations through Lotus Notes. Instructors will receive the student’s accommodation letter for their files.
- Once the instructor receives notification, the instructor needs to immediately begin facilitating the accommodations as delineated.
- The accommodation letter brought to faculty by students with disabilities represents the only institutionally-recognized form of notification for academic accommodations. In addition to the required accommodations, faculty are free to make any alternative arrangements (for a student with a disability) to their standard policies/procedures that they choose, just as faculty are free to make such alternative arrangements with any student. However, disability-related accommodations recognized and supported by Nevada State College can be assigned only by the Center for Learning Assistance and Support Services.
- Any change in the student’s schedule (including withdrawals) must be provided to the C.L.A.S.S. office immediately.
Faculty Accommodation Request Concerns
Members of the college community who have concerns regarding recommended accommodations should contact the C.L.A.S.S. administrator rather than making their concerns known directly to the student.