Advisory Committee on Disability Accommodation and Compliance

The SCDAC is responsible for recommending educational policy within general guidelines

established by the University Senate. Specifically, the SCDAC is charged to:

1. Recommend educational policies and implementation practices that appropriately
   
   address the accommodations standards stipulated in the Americans with Disabilities Act
   
   (ADA) Law and Sections 504/508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for students who
   
   have documented disabilities.
2. Recommend solutions for issues reported by faculty members or the DRC pertaining to
   
   the implementation of educational policies as they relate to practices for disability
   
   accommodation and regulatory compliance.
3. Monitor the alignment between the University Senate’s educational policies and Federal
   
   compliance and accommodation regulations, and recommend educational policy
   
   revisions, as warranted. 

The SCDAC is not required to be chaired by an elected faculty senator nor is it required to be

composed of more than one-half of members who are elected faculty senators. The SCDAC

shall be composed of voting faculty members, ex officio voting members, and ex officio

nonvoting members.