Recently Updated Policies

Comprehensive Review.  Edits made for clarification, but no significant changes in policy.

Comprehensive Review:

• Consolidated all rules that apply to all campuses
• Clarified and cleaned up the language
• Removed standard time charts from the main policy document-Created separate, campus-specific appendices for each campus which include the standard time charts and campus
• specific scheduling rules-Updated contact information
• No changes to the substance of the policy

Comprehensive Review: Revisions made to policy to focus on human resources implications, reorganized the policy to group like content together and moved some definitions into the body of the policy, content about who can declare an emergency and under which conditions was moved to Campus Building Closure Policy, references to Evolving Situations was moved to Campus and Building Closure Policy, moved appendix for Pay Provisions During Campus and building Closures, Reduced Operations, and University State of Emergency from Campus and Building Closure Policy to the Human Resources Implications Policy, incorporated content from appendices Other Human Resources Issues during a University State of Emergency and University State of Emergency Position Description and Responsibilities into the main policy, incorporated references about remote work and stated that Non-Essential employees should work from home or another locations if there work can be done remotely rather than coming to campus.

Comprehensive Review.      

Clarified the inclusion of media; Provided specificity around the process for accommodation requests; Provided greater specificity around individual student, faculty and other Web resources exempted from the policy.

Comprehensive Review.

This is a rewrite of the current policy. The primary change is the addition of a policy requirement that digital content and information technology meet a technical standard that is newly required by law.  Other changes include inserting a guiding principles section, providing clarification on roles and responsibilities given the creation of the Office for Digital Accessibility, and language updates to align with current legal guidance. In April 2024, the Department of Justice issued a new rule to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which set a technical standard for digital content and information technology that the University must comply with.

Equal opportunity to the services, programs, and activities offered by the institution include the digital environment. We value disability as part of human diversity. Ensuring accessibility for digital content and information technology supports inclusion since we are implementing with a proactive accessibility-first approach. This allows disabled people to readily access the same information, engage in the same interactions, and conduct the same transactions as nondisabled people in the digital environment. In the rewriting process for this policy, we centered full participation of disabled people.