Disability Accommodations in On-Campus Housing
Our accommodated housing process, in partnership with the Residence Housing Coordinators and Director of Student Affairs, is designed to provide an inclusive residential community for students with disabilities. We’re here to ensure your housing experience is accessible.
A reasonable accommodation for a disability is a change, exception, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice, or service, or physical structure that removes a barrier an individual with a disability is facing, and allows them an equal opportunity to use and enjoy housing, public, or common use areas. In on-campus housing, this might include altering physical aspects of a bedroom or bathroom to allow it to be functional for an individual with a disability.
Requesting Housing Accommodations
Every year, each student intending to live in on campus housing must fill out a Characteristic Questionnaire. This form includes many questions that help your Residence Housing Coordinator find the best, most appropriate, housing situation for you. Part of this questionnaire allows you to indicate whether or not you require Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) housing accommodations. If you indicate you do, you will get an email with the next steps, including a Housing Accommodation Request Form that you must fill out in order to officially request housing accommodations.
Emotional Support Animals
Emotional support animals provide emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship that alleviates one or more of the disability-related impacts of a person’s verified disability. Emotional support animals are welcome on campus once documented and verified.
- Vaccination record and current animal license
- ESA application form
- Doctor’s verification of need
Ask your Resident Assistant to help you start the process if you are looking to bring an emotional support animal into the dorms mid-semester.
Please note: All accommodated housing requests are reviewed in the order they are received.
Returning Students
Returning students in housing will be asked to fill out the characteristic form every year for ADA accommodation requests.