Housing Accommodations and Assistance Animals
Students seeking an accommodation to the housing assignment process or the assigned housing due to a disability-related reason are to request the accommodation through Disability Services. Given the limited on-campus housing, please submit accommodation requests before the deadlines listed in the Housing Assignment Process section above, where it is possible to do so.
Although Residence Life works with Disability Services to address disability-related housing accommodation requests, students must make those requests directly to Disability services. To contact Disability services, visit their section on Olin’s website: https://www.olin.edu/student-life/disability-services or email disability.services@olin.edu.
Service and Assistance Animals
Disability Services reviews registrations of Service or Assistance Animals for individuals with disabilities. Olin College is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified students with disabilities. Students with disabilities who require the use of Service or Assistance Animals as a reasonable accommodation may be permitted to bring such animals on campus if they are deemed necessary by Disability Services. Students who seek to bring a Service or Assistance Animal to campus must first contact Disability Services. The Disability Services staff will determine, on a case-by-case basis, and in collaboration with other offices on campus, whether to approve the student’s request for a Service or Assistance Animal. In making this determination, Disability Services will consider the needs of the student, as well as the impact of the animal on the campus community. Students seeking to have a Service or Assistance Animal in housing must submit a request for review each academic year.
The animal must not be in residence prior to approval by Disability Services. The approval of a request is animal-specific and is not transferable to another animal.