Editing Herzing Issues: ADA and Disability Accommodations (section)

=== HU-167c: ProProctor unavailability on weekends effectively narrows the reporting student's accommodation-based testing window relative to peers ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
! style="width:14em" | Severity
| High
! Status
| CONFIRMED
|-
! Issue type
| Effective Testing Window Narrower Than Peers Due to ProProctor Unavailability on Only Available Testing Days
! Date added
| 2026-06-13
|-
! Owner
| colspan="3" | Herzing Testing and Accommodations / ProctorU Inc. d/b/a Meazure Learning / Herzing Academic Affairs
|}
'''Finding.''' The reporting student raised in his June 13, 2026 email that his Thursday and Friday clinical schedule leaves only Saturday and Sunday as available testing days, and that if ProProctor is unavailable on weekends, he effectively has a narrower testing window than peers who do not require a ProProctor. The ProProctor is an accommodation component approved because of his disability; if it is structurally unavailable on the only days his clinical obligations allow, the net effect is that his disability accommodation reduces rather than equalizes his access to the full testing window.

'''Evidence.''' Email from the reporting student (approx. 3:39 PM, June 13, 2026): "I should have the full exam window like my peers so I can study throughout the week and due to clinicals on Thursdays and Fridays that only leaves Saturday and Sunday. ... The proproctor is supposed to be part of the approved accommodations and I don't see why I'd have a smaller testing window then my peers due to a disability."

'''Reported statement.'''
<blockquote>I should have the full exam window like my peers so I can study throughout the week and due to clinicals on Thursdays and Fridays that only leaves Saturday and Sunday. ... The proproctor is supposed to be part of the approved accommodations and I don't see why I'd have a smaller testing window then my peers due to a disability.</blockquote>

'''Standards.''' ADA Title III, examinations (42 U.S.C. §12189; 28 C.F.R. §36.309); Section 504 (29 U.S.C. §794; 34 C.F.R. §104.44): academic adjustments must not have the effect of discriminating on the basis of disability; 34 C.F.R. §668.14 (institutional responsibility for vendor). An accommodation design that, combined with an approved clinical schedule, produces a structurally narrower testing window than non-accommodated peers is an inequitable-access concern and a potential Section 504 violation. Lead: {{HU|HU-167}}.

'''Impact.''' If ProProctor is unavailable on weekends, the reporting student has no days within a standard week on which he can both meet his clinical obligations and exercise his approved accommodation, giving him a de facto shorter testing window than peers without disabilities.

'''Notes.''' Sub-issue of {{HU|HU-167}} (lead). CONFIRMED from first-party email. The clinical scheduling constraint is documented in {{HU|HU-135}}. Documented 2026-06-13.

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