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;
- apply for and use SAS-approved accommodations; 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. Students requesting approval for reasonable accommodations 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 supports might be available to the student.
All accommodation requests need to be directly related to the disability and how it 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 written documentation authored by a relevant healthcare (which may include a psychological) professional/s to SAS (access@marymount.edu). 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 get an official accommodation letter each semester from SAS. Students are asked to provide each of their instructors with a copy of this accommodation letter and discuss how approved accommodations will be implemented throughout the semester. It is important for students to request their instructors’ signatures on the accommodation letters during these exchanges. These signatures inform SAS whether or not accommodations are understood, agreed upon, and collaboratively applied by student and instructor.
Student accommodations for housing, dining, emotional support animals, and other non-academic modifications are authorized by SAS and provided in conjunction with other university offices. More information can be found in the SAS section of Marymount’s website.
SAS also actively assists students in effectively using support resources and services available to them at the Student Academic Hub and throughout the university community.mc