Disability Accommodations: DEIA, Technical Standards, and Beyond

Colleges and universities continue to encounter novel and complex disability accommodation issues. The advice of counsel is increasingly required to balance the many legal, compliance, and practical factors at play to arrive at a positive and reasonable accommodation outcome for all involved parties. The legal and policy landscape surrounding disability accommodations is also evolving, with continued focus on disability for enforcement actions coupled with shifting standards in adverse employment decisions. These developments warrant renewed attention by counsel to the advice provided in situations involving disability accommodations, as well as institutional policies, processes, and resources for supporting disabled members of the campus community.

Please join us for this two-hour webinar in which two experienced practitioners will cover:

• Takeaways and trends from recent case law regarding shifting standards in Title VII, state discrimination law, and the ADA;
• An overview of reasonable accommodations in the student conduct process, including the impact on students with temporary or permanent disabilities;
• Discussion of approaches to issues at the intersection of reasonable accommodations and technical standards for certain programs of study and clinical placements; and
• Other emerging considerations and trends in the accommodations space, including fitness for duty.