Recording Lectures

Under Section 504, of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Institutions of higher education must provide reasonable accommodations to a student’s known disability and may not deny equal access to the institution’s programs, courses and activities. Recording lectures is a reasonable accommodation for students whose documentation calls for this accommodation.

Saginaw Valley State University policy states:

The resulting recordings nor any form of copies of transcripts of the recordings may be used for any other purpose than as a replacement for notes taken in class.

The Faculty has the option to request a student who uses a recorder to sign an agreement for recording and present the form to the instructor.