Academic accommodations
The university takes seriously its responsibility to provide reasonable accommodation under the BC Human Rights Code. This is reflected in UVic's Academic Accommodation Policy (AC1205), which was revised and approved by Senate in 2024 following three years of consultations with faculty, staff, students and legal experts.
Learn more about UVic's approach to academic accommodations, including supports for instructors.
Students registered with the Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL)
We are encouraged by the growing number of students with disabilities transitioning successfully from the K-12 system.
Resourcing for academic accommodations (CAL and OREM)
While the university has increased support for academic accommodations each year—even amid broader budget reductions and constraints—sustainable solutions require more than additional funding. The increasing demand and the diverse needs of our student population require us to rethink and redesign our approaches.
Benchmarking
We recognize the complex and evolving challenges related to academic accommodations facing the post-secondary sector. As recent national coverage in and has highlighted, these are issues that many institutions are navigating.
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Source: UVic participates annually in the . The 2023 survey of middle-year students (those in second and third year of a four-year undergraduate degree) self-report the following levels of “disabilities and impairments.” UVic is part of Group 2, which include mid-sized and large universities.