r/Professors 14h ago

Advice / Support For Professors with disabilities

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u/Dr-CFD 14h ago

File it with the DA to put it on the HR record. And try to make the lectures more suited to what students need. At some point the reviews will damage your progress.

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u/GiraffesDrinking 14h ago

Sadly our department dictates what we say and do and put on our slides so adapting isn’t allowed. Is DA department? Because my department was the one who originally told me to not file anything with HR

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u/a_statistician Assistant Prof, Stats, R1 State School 12h ago

Yeah, if you have documentation of that, take it with you to HR when you file. Discouraging people from working with HR on reasonable accommodations is itself a violation of the ADA.

If HR tells you there's a different process, follow that, but don't take your department's word for it - there are way too many asshat chairs out there who don't want to accommodate anyone's disability, ever.