Accessibility
Overview
UC Santa Cruz is committed to creating a learning and working environment that is accessible to all. Various units on campus provide a range of services and accommodations to help ensure that students and employees with disabilities have equal access to education and employment.
Explore Campus Disability Services and Resources
Disability Resource Center (DRC)
Disability Resource Center (DRC): The DRC serves undergraduate and graduate students with disabilities, providing a variety of accommodations and services, such as assistive learning devices, alternative formats, note-taking services, and housing accommodations. The DRC also partners with faculty to implement accommodations and provide services to give students full access.
Disability Management Services (DMS)
Disability Management Services (DMS): The DMS provides assistance to faculty, staff, and employed students when a disability interferes with their ability to perform their essential job duties. The Interactive Process is mandated under Cal-FEHA when providing reasonable employment accommodations. Learn more about the DMS.
Disability Van Service (DVS)
Transportation and Parking Services provides a shared-ride service that provides on-campus wheelchair lift-equipped transportation for those unable to use the regular campus transit system through DVS, which is available to employees, students, and visitors with temporary or permanent mobility impairments.
Accessible Technology
UC Santa Cruz ensures that its programs, services, and activities are accessible to, and usable by, students, faculty, and staff with disabilities. When faculty and staff utilize an electronic environment and provide electronic information, they are required to make them accessible to those using adaptive technology.
Report an accessibility barrier
Use this form to report an accessibility barrier that prevented you or someone else from fully taking part in a university program, service, or activity. You can also use this form to make a more general suggestion on how we can improve accessibility at UC Santa Cruz. Your report will be sent to and reviewed by an ADA Access Coordinator who will act, as appropriate, in a timely fashion. Please note: In order to address the barrier, your response may be shared with technical and subject-matter experts.
Federal, State, and UC Policies
Read more about the federal and state laws and UC policies related to disability.
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): http://www.ada.gov/
- California Fair Employment and Housing Act (Cal-FEHA): https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/
- PPSM 81: Reasonable Accommodation (https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010420/PPSM-81)
UC’s Policy on Vaccination Programs requires reasonable accommodation and allows exceptions based on disability..