Rutgers University’s medical school had no obligation to waive its time limit for graduation or to ease its testing standards in order to accommodate a student with bipolar disorder, a federal judge in Newark has ruled.
The school is entitled to deference on its decision that the accommodations the student sought would have posed a threat to the medical school, U.S. District Judge Jose Linares of the District of New Jersey said in Chin v. Rutgers University. The school undertook “great efforts” to accommodate the student’s disability but Rutgers demonstrated that to grant the additional accommodations she requested would “fundamentally alter the nature of the program,” Linares said.
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