Compliance Performance Group

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Camille Green

Financial aid available to students with a disability

Even though an individual may not be able to accomadate a specific program, why are they eligible for financial aid?

Camille Green

Wheelchair access

Should schools be alloted funds for wheelchair access?

Camille Green

Disabled students

When students are disabled should they receive special treatment?

Thomasena Williams

ADA

Institution Management must ensure that there is available and adequate faculty for reasonable accommodations.

Sharon Bartley

Training

The training was very helpful. There are many new rules and regulations that were covered in the modules. It will be great to have a refresher course once a year to make sure regulations are still the same.

Karri Preas

Transparency

It is important that we pursue transparency and maintain high standards in our schools. Give an example of how your school has followed this and what the outcome has been.

Cindy Reeder

online training

This was my first online training via MaxWeb. I found it to be bery beneficial.

Sandra Hood

FERPA

For the students that are interested, we have FERPA Release Forms they can sign. If someone calls claiming to be a student requesting any information we have them give us certain details such as DOB, SS#, Graduation Date, etc. before giving details. Are there additional quidelines we should follow for over the phone requests?

Sandra Hood

Unacceptable Proof of Graduation

Does anyone know if there is a website that lists Schools and their locations which have been deemed UNACCEPTABLE for "Proof of High School Graduation"? I've been told there are websites where you can purchase High School Diplomas.

Matt Cordish

CM202

I had just completed the CM202 modules. Very informative, especially for a first time in a career college. There were many new rules and regulations for me, and keeping the Notebook is a great idea for a refresher.

John deSaulles

CM305

Great training that is up to date with current policy changes in the industry. Keeping up with the rules and regulations for the admissions process is enhanced by the training offered in these courses.

James Majestic

The Human Factor

This module is very helpful because it talks about a lot of stuff as technical standards, avoiding stereotypes, no pre-admission inquiries, know your limits, and confidentiality in admissions. There is a phrase that is "Don't judge a book by its cover." People in society are judging other people by their appearance such as how the way he or she looks.

James Majestic

The Accomdation Process

This module talks about the difference between access verus success, WHo Holds The Documentation, Who Makes The Decision, Who Delivers The Service, Thinking Outside THe Box, Relating Documentation to Accomdation, Ocer-Accomdation and Unfair Advantage, and Unversal Design. Universal Design was first used by architect Ron Mace in the mid-1980s to descrive the concept of designing all products and the environment to be usable to the greatest extent possible by everyone. Ron Mace would have wanted that in our society today that we rarely think about its importance or its impact in our daily lives. An example of Universal Design is for the blind and the visually impaired, they could use VoiceOver, which isa screen-access technology, for the blind and visually impaired

James Majestic

The Impact of Disability

This module talks about the fiunctional limitations of each disabilty such as blind stuents, deaf students, chronic helath impairments students, Learning disabilties students, ADHD students, PTSD(Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), Autistic Students, Aspeger Syndrome Students, Traumatic Brain Injuries Students, and Disabled Veterans. Everybody has strengths and weaknesses. In addition, everybody wants to succeed in their lives. In the How Hearing Impacts Learning of this module, Helen Keller was asked one time whether she would considered blindness or dearfness to be the more significant handicap. She said, "Blindness is a barrier between people and things. Deafness is a barrier between people and people."

James Majestic

Legal Obligations and Opportunities

This module is very helpful because it talks about a lot of stuff. The key is to allow students to reach their potential on what they want to pursue in their career. From my experience, I have autism and I had an accomdation that was extended test time on my tests. The accomdation helped me out tremendously because I could focus more on the tests instead of rushing through to get in time. Once I graduated from college, I knew I reached my potential and I proved to myself that you know what just because I have a disabiltiy, it does not mean I am limited to what I can do. Every college and univeristy should have an office of disability service so that way it would make the students with disabilities lives much easier and they can get their accomdations that they need.

Gayle Johnson

Attendance as an accommodation

We have previously had issues where our strict attendance policy is viewed by disabled students as inherently discriminatory. They have expressed the opinion that it does not enable them to meet their needs of doctor appointments, physical therapy, etc. Our position has been that successfully participating in classroom learning is an essential component of the curriculum- as is meeting the contact hours that are required. After all this is not a correspondence course. Is there distinctions that should be made, and how do we stay out of the gray areas here?

Gayle Johnson

the realities of TIME in providing accommodations

At our institution, I think we have improved drastically in our understanding of and provisions for "reasonable accommodations". The challenge has not been so much the what to provide, as the how quickly it can be provided so as not to interfere with the student's access to the same materials and resources. We offer an accelerated model, so struggle a bit in having the ability to provide a student enrolled in a particular class, for example, with all the handouts in the appropriate formats at the same time as other students receiving them in the standard format so that they can maintain the same rate of progress. Is there additional interpretations that the student being provided accommodations must maintain the same rate of progress as other students? Additionally, we are struggling somewhat in determining what is reasonable for LD/ADHD students that "need more time" for assignments, test, etc. How do we determine, based on their functional levels, what is appropriate without having an expert in that disability on our staff?

William Hannon

CM 201

How do you all feel it helped you? I feel like it was very helpful...maybe not not so much in new material, but in reinforcing the training I received at my college.

Compliance at my school is very important--as it should be at every school in my opinion--I think this course adds to the the wealth of information we have been presented thus far.

James Price

Re: The Training from Max Knowledge

Hi all,

I enjoyed the training, I do feel that the requirements are too stringent but I learned alot and still enjoyed the CM102 traning and it was great. How does eveyone else feel about it? Has anyone else taken it before.

Julia Mims e

Obligation versus reality

When is it ok to acknowledge that a student is not successful in a particular course. We give them the information; positive, negative and optional, allow them to make the decision to either stay and fail or move on to another program that they are better equiped. I understand that accomadating students for success is not the same as them being successful but if the instructor can see that the student and the career path are not in line when and who tells the student the truth. Or do we allow them (the student) to spend (or waste) a great amount of time on a path that will not lead them 'where' they want to go. Why can we not give realistic views of the path and if or when the student asks if the instructor (someone doing what the student wants to one day do) thinks they will be success are we to lie? I don't lie I give truth and options to decide.