POLICY

Western Oregon University is committed to nondiscrimination in the delivery
of its programs, services and facilities to persons with disabilities.

    PURPOSE

The Americans with Disability Act defines "accessibility" as the freedom
of persons with disabilities to approach, enter, and use or participate 
in academic programs, personnel offices, work sites and public areas.  
An "accommodation" is any change, modification or adjustment of the work 
environment which enables individuals with disabilities to enjoy equal 
employment opportunities.  A "reasonable accommodation" is action, which
is reasonably possible in the circumstances, to make the regular services
of a place of public accommodation accessible to persons who otherwise could
not use or fully enjoy the services because of the person's sensory, mental,
or physical limitation.

    PROCEDURES

Western Oregon University shall inform persons with disabilities in a timely 
manner of their right to request and receive reasonable accommodations. Such
notification will be provided verbally in announcements and/or written material
regarding university programs, activities and services.  The Office of 
Disability Services shall coordinate and provide reasonable accommodations 
for faculty, staff, students and community members.  All presentations, forms,
and brochures shall be altered to include a statement of nondiscrimination, and 
shall be made available in alternate format upon request.  The University shall 
provide annual training to faculty and staff on workforce diversity which shall 
include nondiscrimination on the basis of disability.  Information gathered in 
interviews and forms containing information regarding disability status shall
be considered confidential.

    AUTHORITY

Western is in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, and Oregon Revised Statute 
659.405.

    APPROVAL

Complaints alleging discrimination in employment or in access to facilities, 
goods and services at Western Oregon University should be made to immediate 
supervisors, or to the department or program directors as specified in the 
University's Procedures for Reasonable Accommodation Complaints.  The Director 
of the Office of Disability Services and the University's ADA Coordinator are 
available to assist in resolving a request or complaint.