2.3 | Policy On Disabilities

As part of its commitment to maintaining a highly qualified and diverse workforce and student population, Sampoerna University offers equal opportunity, participation, and access to its programs, services and activities to qualified individuals with disabilities.

2.3.1 | Admission of Students

Sampoerna University does not offer separate admission standards or procedures to prospective students with disabilities, and applicants are not requested or required to disclose a disability during the admission process. In all respects, applications are reviewed without regard to disability. For information about services for students with disabilities, prospective students and their parents are encouraged to contact the Office of Student Affairs.

2.3.2 | Services for Students with Disabilities

Sampoerna University does not offer separate admission standards or procedures to prospective students with disabilities, and applicants are not requested or required to disclose a disability during the admission process. In all respects, applications are reviewed without regard to disability. For information about services for students with disabilities, prospective students and their parents are encouraged to contact the Office of Student Affairs.

• Permission to audio record class lectures.
• Extended time for exams; and
• Referrals for content-area tutoring.

The University will provide appropriate services and/or academic adjustments on a case-by-case basis and will not necessarily incorporate all requested services and academic adjustments. University personnel will only provide services and/or academic adjustments in accordance with this policy. Faculty, other University personnel, and students with questions/concerns with respect to the accommodations identified in the plan are encouraged to contact the Office of Student Affairs.

2.3.3 | Documentation

It is the responsibility of the student requesting services and/or academic adjustments to provide documentation including, but not limited to:

1. Documentation not more than 2 years old prepared by a professional qualified to diagnose disabilities. Such professionals include but are not limited to those appropriately certified or licensed as a physician, educational diagnostician, learning disability specialist or psychologist.
2. Documentation including testing procedures followed, the instruments used to assess the disability, the test results and the interpretation of the results.
3. Documentation specifying recommended services and/or academic adjustments.
4. Documentation, which must be as comprehensive as possible, reflecting the individual’s present achievement level.
5. Documentation for individuals with learning disabilities must include a complete psycho-educational evaluation (within two years of entry to Sampoerna University) conducted by a qualified psycho-educational diagnostician. Documentation should include test results for at least the following characteristics: intelligence, vocabulary, reading rate and comprehension, memory and processing skills. Documentation for ADD/ADHD should have been updated within the last two years. Psychological disabilities require a current report and an update every six months. Physical or health-related disabilities may require periodic updates after receipt of a recent evaluation from a physician, neurologist or other qualified diagnostician.

All information submitted concerning the disability is confidential and shared only on a need to know basis within the University.

2.3.4 | Employees with Disabilities

Sampoerna University will reasonably accommodate employees with disabilities. To ensure that an employee can perform or continue to perform (if the disability occurs after employment) his/her job duties, a reasonable accommodation by Sampoerna University may include the purchase of special equipment, changing the physical layout of workspace, restructuring job responsibilities and duties, and/or modifying the work schedule.

To be eligible for a reasonable accommodation, employees must declare their disabilities. Once Human Resources is provided with written documentation by a physician that describes the disability and recommends specific accommodations, the employee has fulfilled his/her responsibility.

Even though the employee provides input concerning the accommodation process, Sampoerna University will determine what constitutes a reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis and reserves the right to request additional independent medical examinations, evaluations or other appropriate information at the University’s expense.

Disability information is treated as confidential and will be shared only with University administrators only on a need to know basis. Sampoerna University will not provide accommodations without appropriate documentation.