There was an acute need to do something. What we were doing was satisfactory. No one was denied accommodations, but it was becoming too difficult to manage. Harlow has implemented a procedure in compliance with the above federal laws for students seeking special accommodations. They are recommended by the diagnostician and then evaluated in terms of their reasonableness by the disability support committee.
Accommodations are what is really needed by students to level the playing field.
And, we determine that by evaluating the documentation. The documentation ensures that the professor knows that he or she is not being taken for a ride and increases the comfort level of the student and the professor. The accommodation form is an icebreaker. One and one-half of the Rhodes student population has a documented disability, according to Harlow. Rhodes is self-selective unlike other colleges and universities that have open admissions policies.