Advice on accommodation decision‐making

As more students register for accommodations, saying yes can be tempting, as it reduces the need to explain your decisions or respond to appeals. But doing so can damage the integrity of your work and create larger workloads as you manage some accommodations that aren’t necessary to provide access (and potentially do so for students who aren’t eligible). Presentations by Adam Meyer and Paul Harwell and Maddie Adams for the Association on Higher Education and Disability and a study by Robert Weis and Sophie Bittner offered points to consider when reviewing requests.