Student Rights & Accommodations
Section 504, the ADA and FERPA give students more than most schools volunteer. An accommodation is not a favor a professor grants; it is an obligation attached to federal funding, and nearly every private university takes federal funding through its students’ aid. FERPA governs who sees your record and what a school may say about you.
These posts cover what you can require, how to ask so that the request is on the record, and what to do when a school delays, waters down or quietly stops honoring an accommodation it already approved.
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Disability Accommodations — 504 & ADA
Section 504 and the ADA protect college and graduate students with disabilities. The usual problems: an accommodation refused, one approved but never delivered, or a dismissal that ignores the disability.
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FERPA Lawyer for College Students
FERPA gives you the right to inspect your education records, seek correction of anything inaccurate or misleading, and limit disclosure. At a college the rights belong to the student, and the school must allow inspection within 45 days.
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Due Process at Public Institutions
Students at public colleges are entitled to constitutional due process when the school threatens their enrollment. Discipline generally requires notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard; academic decisions, less.
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Discrimination Against Students
Federal law bars schools from discriminating on race, national origin, sex or disability, and from punishing students who complain. What brings most people here is not the original incident but what happened after they reported it.
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