Eastern Connecticut State University is committed to the goal of achieving equal educational opportunity and full participation for persons with disabilities. Thus, no qualified person shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination in any program or activity on this campus.
A physical or functional impairment is a disability only to the extent that it contributes to cutting the person off from some valued experience, activity, or role. Higher education is therefore especially important to people with disabilities, since it aims to increase every student's access. Improving access for students and employees means removing existing barriers that are physical, programmatic, and attitudinal; it also means taking care not to erect new barriers along the way.
As this University strives to accommodate people with disabilities, services and programs which best promote full participation and integration of people with disabilities may be necessary to complement and support the regular services and programs of the institution.
Therefore, Eastern Connecticut State University commits itself to the process of identifying barriers to the full participation of people with disabilities and of developing strategies to overcome those barriers.
