Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a nondiscrimination law. It does not require employers to undertake special activities to recruit people with disabilities; however, it is consistent with the purpose of the ADA for the University of Louisville to expand their recruitment efforts to sources of qualified candidates with disabilities. The Disability Resource Center maintains a list of disability-related organizations, agencies, and publications for job postings.
Where to go for assistance:
If you are an applicant and need reasonable accommodations for the interview process, or for job performance, please contact the Employment Office at 852-6542. If you are an applicant and feel that you have been discriminated against during the employment process, please contact the Affirmative Action Office at 852-6538.
The Disability Resource Center can also be reached at (502) 852-6938.
Rights and Responsbilities of People with Disabilities:
People with disabilities at the University have the right to:
- Equal access to courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities offered through the University;
- An equal opportunity to work and to learn, and to receive reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Appropriate confidentiality of all information regarding their disability and to choose to whom, outside of the University, information about their disability will be disclosed, except as disclosures are required or permitted by law;
- Information, reasonably available in accessible formats.
People with disabilities at the University have the responsibility to:
- Meet qualifications and maintain qualifications and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
- Identify self as an individual with a disability when an accommodation is needed and to seek information, counsel, and assistance as necessary;
- Demonstrate and/or document (from an appropriate professional) how the disability limits their participation in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
- Follow published procedures for obtaining reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Identify and establish essential functions, abilities, skills, knowledge, and standards for courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities and to evaluate faculty, staff, and students on this basis.
Rights and Responsbilities of the University of Louisville:
People with disabilities at the University have the right to:
- Request and receive, through the Disability Resource Center or the Affirmative Action Office, current documentation that supports requests for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Deny a request for accommodations, academic adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services if the documentation demonstrates that the request is not warranted, or if the individual fails to provide appropriate documentation;
- Select among equally effective accommodations, adjustments, and/or auxiliary aids and services;
- Refuse an unreasonable accommodation, adjustment, and/or auxiliary aid and service that imposes a fundamental alteration on a program or activity of the University.
People with disabilities at the University have the responsibility to:
- Provide information to faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in accessible formats upon request;
- Ensure that courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities, when viewed in their entirety, are available and usable in the most integrated and appropriate settings;
- Evaluate faculty, staff, students, and applicants on their abilities and not their disabilities;
- Provide or arrange reasonable accommodations, academic adjustments, and /or auxiliary aids and services for faculty, staff, students, and guests with disabilities in courses, programs, services, jobs, activities, and facilities;
- To maintain appropriate confidentiality of records and communication, except where permitted or required by law.
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