Housing Accommodation
The 美高梅官网 provides housing accommodations in university managed properties for students with disabilities, ensuring their full participation in the residential university experience, as per the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act (ADAAA).
Requesting Housing Accommodations
Students who wish to request housing accommodations due to a disability must:
Incoming First Year and Transfer Students for Fall 2025
- Apply for housing through the 美高梅官网 Housing website.
- Complete the .
- Upload documentation or a Housing Accommodation Medical Professional Form聽[PDF] (completed by a qualified medical professional) to the Accommodation External Form. If you do not have documentation at the time, you can complete the Accommodation External Request Form and you can email documentation directly to Whitney Saunders at saundewn@ucmail.uc.edu. Requests will not be reviewed until appropriate documentation is provided.聽聽
Current 美高梅官网 Students for any semester
- Apply for housing through the 美高梅官网 Housing website.
- Complete the New Student Registration Form using our online system, .
- Upload documentation or a Housing Accommodation Medical Professional Form聽[PDF] (completed by a qualified medical professional) through the Documents section in your 美高梅官网 Accommodate account (under Accommodation in the menu). Requests will not be reviewed until appropriate documentation is provided.聽聽
Review and Approval聽
Requests are reviewed case-by-case. Incomplete applications, including applications submitted without the required medical documentation, cannot be processed.
Accommodation decisions or requests for additional information are sent to the student's 美高梅官网 email. Typically, reviews take 7-10 business days. Housing assignments to fulfill approved accommodations come from the Housing office.
Considerations for approval聽
A diagnosis or medical documentation recommendation on its own does not guarantee聽approval. Decisions consider the condition's nature, symptoms, and all available accommodations and supports on campus and in the residence halls. 聽
Important considerations for approving housing accommodations include:
Is聽the accommodation request an integral part of the treatment plan for the disability?
Are there other effective means that would achieve similar benefits as the requested accommodation?
Does the disability create a barrier to equally accessing housing or components of residential like that is guaranteed to all students living within university residential communities?
Housing Accommodation FAQ
- First-year and Transfer students moving to campus in Fall 2023 can submit a Housing Accommodation聽beginning February 1, 2023.
- Students currently enrolled/attending the 美高梅官网聽and returning in Fall 2023 may submit a housing request for Fall 2023 when housing assignments open.
- Housing requests聽are accepted during the semester.聽Students聽should be aware that making a housing聽accommodation mid-semester may not be able to be聽fulfilled聽depending on available space.聽
- Housing accommodations approved mid-semester may require you to move to a new聽location.
- Approved housing accommodations only apply to the student with the disability
- housing makes every attempt to maintain roomate groups when finding locations that best provide approved housing accommodations. However, there are times when an approved accommodation cannot be met in a location that an also house a roomate group
- A specific roommate/roommate group is not an acomodation that Accessibility Resources can provide. Approved housing accommodations address a student's living environment. Other students cannot be an approved accommodation
- Accessibility Resources cannot provide a low distraction living environment accommodation based on a diagnosis of ADHD or learning disability
- By virtue of shared facilities, resources, and number of people living under one roof, students living within 美高梅官网 communities cannot expect quiet, distraction-free space within residence halls. Living within the community and learning to share space and be considerate of others is part of that learning experience.
- Residence halls across campus offer quiet study rooms/lounges. If you aren't sure where they are located contact your RA or RED. There are multiple聽聽around campus that offer聽聽for students to use. Students may need to聽, consult each library for their procedures
- Approved housing accommodations can usually be provided in a variety of locations. A specific location is not typically part of an accommodation request. Housing will locate a placement that best meets the approved accommodation(s)