Disability & Accessibility Training
Beginning this Fall, the University is providing a new online training program to help supervisors and faculty understand our Disability and Accessibility Policy and assist them in facilitating reasonable accommodations for employees and students with disabilities. Disability and Accessibility is a required online civil rights training program for faculty and supervisory staff members administered by the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct (OCRSM).
Faculty and supervisory staff members are responsible to facilitate reasonable accommodations for students and employees in a timely effective manner. The training is designed to enable supervisors and faculty to identify and respond effectively to accommodation requests and will provide supervisors with a clearer understanding of:
- What a reasonable accommodation is;
- The process for requesting and implementing reasonable accommodations for staff, faculty, and students, respectively;
- The role of supervisors and of specific campus offices in facilitating and implementing reasonable accommodations; and
- Best practices and available campus resources for ensuring an accessible, respectful and inclusive working and learning environment for all members of the University community
Starting in late September, all supervisory staff members and faculty should have received an email message with a personalized link to access training, along with brief instructions and contact information for questions and assistance. Everyone is asked to complete the training within 30 days of receiving their assignment email. Supervisory staff members who did not receive their assignment email should contact OCRSM at ocrsm-training@umd.edu. In addition, if you are a supervisor with staff members or graduate assistants who you believe should complete the training, based on their job responsibilities, please send a request to OCRSM.
For more information about the Disability & Accessibility online training program, visit OCRSM online at ocrsm.umd.edu.