{"title":"New OCR letter shows importance of clearly defining disability grievance process","authors":"Eric Lyerly Esq.","doi":"10.1002/dhe.31959","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>A recent OCR investigation shows why institutions must distinguish their disability grievance processes from their processes for general misconduct grievances. Failing to make distinctions between these processes can impede students from pursuing grievances against faculty and others — and result in unlawful discrimination against the complainant in violation of Section 504.</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 10","pages":"5-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dhe.31959","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A recent OCR investigation shows why institutions must distinguish their disability grievance processes from their processes for general misconduct grievances. Failing to make distinctions between these processes can impede students from pursuing grievances against faculty and others — and result in unlawful discrimination against the complainant in violation of Section 504.