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by Illinois Tech policies.
T. Use of Bathroom Facilities
Illinois Tech strives to create a campus environment that supports and values all members of our community. As one aspect of creating a supportive environment is providing safe, accessible and convenient bathroom facilities, students as well as staff, faculty, and campus guests should use the bathroom facilities that correspond to their sex or gender identity or utilize bathrooms that are designated gender-neutral or gender- inclusive.
U. Students with Disabilities
It is the policy of Illinois Tech to provide students with reasonable accommodations in a timely manner when such accommodations are necessary to afford goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations to students with disabilities, unless providing the accommodation would fundamentally alter the nature of the good, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodation. To this end, students with disabilities may request academic accommodations; housing and dining accommodations; modifications to Illinois Tech policies, rules and regulations; environmental adjustments, such as the removal of architectural, communication or transportation barriers; and/or auxiliary aids and services. Requests for accommodations should be made to the Center for Disability Resources, and the specific procedures for the making of such requests are set forth on the Center’s webpage at https://web.iit.edu/cdr/services. With respect to such requests, Illinois Tech, through the Center, will conduct, as more fully detailed on the Center’s webpage, an individualized assessment of each student to determine whether and what accommodation(s) can be made to allow students with disabilities to participate in the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations at Illinois Tech.
Any student with a disability at Illinois Tech who believes that they have received discriminatory treatment in violation of Illinois Tech’s stated policy should communicate, either in writing or in person, with the Director of Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action, IIT Tower, 10 W. 35th Street, 19th Floor, 312.567.3134.
V. Pregnant Students
Illinois Tech is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for pregnant and parenting students. Students may request reasonable accommodations as a result of pregnancy, childbirth, or related conditions. Reasonable accommodations vary based on the student’s circumstances, but may include: academic accommodations and flexibility (such as breaks during class, excused absences, rescheduling of tests, extensions of deadlines, and alternatives to make up missed work); leaves of absences or changes in work schedules; changes to housing; or other types of accommodations. A student seeking such an accommodation should make such a request to the Center for Disability Services, which, because of its expertise in the area of accommodations, administers such requests. The specific procedures for making such a request are set forth on the Center’s webpage at https://web.iit.edu/cdr/services.
To file a report of discrimination based on pregnancy or parental status, students should be made to Illinois Tech’s Title IX Officer, Virginia Foster. Ms. Foster’s contact information is: 312-567-5725, foster@iit.edu, Room 2D7-1 of the IIT Tower, 10 West 35th Street in Chicago.
V. ACADEMIC AND DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS
Rules and regulations are a necessary part of life, even in an academic environment, for they define boundaries of conduct that allow an individual the maximum degree of freedom consistent with the effective functioning of that community. The following regulations, derived from applicable laws and regulatory requirements and the experience of operating and maintaining an institution of higher education, summarize some of the academic-related boundaries at Illinois Tech. It is important that all students familiarize themselves with this material. In addition, undergraduate students should become familiar with the regulations and procedures listed in the current Undergraduate Bulletin and other publications from the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs; graduate students should become familiar with the regulations and procedures listed in the current Graduate Bulletin and other publications from the Office of Graduate Academic Affairs. Law students should become familiar with the regulations and procedures listed in the
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