NaBITA Tip of the Week on "Direct Threat No More?"

In the absence of any specific guidance from the U.S. Government, colleges and universities have been left for years now to wonder about the best practice with respect to suicidal students, since the regulations for ADA appeared to remove harm-to-self from the direct threat definition protected individuals with disabilities in 2010.  NaBITA has always contended that colleges and universities may legally separate a student who is acutely suicidal, for their own safety, from the university or from university housing for a period of time.  The question has been a matter of how that can be done, legally.

  

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