Rush University is committed to diversity, to attracting and educating students who will make the population of the scientist representative of the national population.
Our core values — ICARE — Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect and Excellence translate into our work with all students, including those with disabilities. Rush actively collaborates with students to develop innovative ways to ensure accessibility and creates a respectful accountable culture through our confidential and specialized disability support. Rush is committed to excellence in accessibility; we encourage students with disabilities to disclose and seek accommodations.
Observation
Students must be able to acquire information from lectures, demonstrations and experiments, written documents and computer systems (e.g., literature searches & data retrieval). Students must be able to observe accurately at a distance and up close, skills that require the use of vision, hearing and touch, or the functional equivalent.
Communication
Students should be able to speak and receive information in both oral and written formats. Students must be able to communicate via English effectively and efficiently in oral and written form with others and with all members of a research team, the scientific community, and general audiences.
Motor
Students must possess both fine and gross motor skills necessary to perform procedures required to conduct experiments and/or research within their chosen program discipline.
Intellectual-Conceptual, Integrative and Quantitative Abilities
Students must be able to measure, calculate, reason, analyze, synthesize and problem solve. Students must possess the intellectual, integrative and quantitative abilities to independently carry out these responsibilities.
Behavioral
Students must possess the emotional health required for full use of their intellectual abilities, the exercise of good judgment, the prompt completion of all responsibilities, and the development of mature, sensitive, and effective relationships in the training environment. Students must be able to tolerate physically taxing workloads and to function effectively under stress. They must be able to adapt to changing environments, to display flexibility and to learn to function in the face of uncertainties and ambiguities.
Ethics and Professionalism
Students must understand the ethical aspects of their field and function within ethical standards of the profession and within the law. Compassion, integrity, concern for others, interpersonal skills, professionalism, interest, and motivation are all personal qualities that are expected during the education processes.
The technical standards delineated above must be met with or without accommodation. Students who determine that they require reasonable accommodations to fully engage in the Program should contact the Office of Student Accessibility Services to confidentially discuss their accommodations needs.
Given the nature of our Programs, time may be needed to create and implement the accommodations. Accommodations are never retroactive; therefore, timely requests are essential and encouraged. To learn more about accommodations at Rush University please contact:
Marie Lusk, MBA, MSW, LSW
Director, Student Accessibility Services
Division of Student Affairs
600 S. Paulina Street, AAC 901
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: 312.942.5237
Marie_Lusk@Rush.edu
