[nabs-l] Recording Lectures... Not allowed?

[Merisa Musemic]

Hi Jamie! Your best bet is to first go to the professor, and tell him
that recording your class is a reasonable accomodation under ADA title
2. If you encounter further difficulties, I would then go to the
student services and tell them what you encountered, and ask for their
assistance.
Hth!
Merisa

On 1/23/09, Jamie Principato <blackbyrdfly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I know I spend more time reading this list than I do posting to it, but I
> encountered a little issue in my Psychology class this morning, and I think
> this is the place to find the best input.
>
> I attend a small state college. Student services isn't great here (there are
> other issues that only just got resolved, but not the point here) but they
> get the job done. One accommodation we talked about when I first enrolled
> was recording class lectures. I was told by Student Services that I would be
> allowed to do this in any class that I needed to as long as doing so
> wouldn't disrupt the class (which we determined it wouldn't as I am only
> recording on my laptop as I type notes). One of the main reasons I do this
> is because a lot of the time the professors have diagrams, drawings, visual
> aids, or written information on the board that needs to be copied into
> notes, and I rely on the descriptions given in the lecture to make sure I
> have all the information I need. For me, this is more efficient than a note
> taker because I get the information I need right away and don't have to wait
> on Student Services and end up behind in the class.
>
> Today however, my professor stopped me and asked me if that was a microphone
> plugged into my laptop. I told him it was, and I politely asked if it was
> okay for me to record the class. In retrospect this was bad self advocacy. I
> should have told him just as politely that Student Services arranged for me
> to record my lectures to make up for any visual information I would
> otherwise miss. Anyway, in short he told me no, I could not record any part
> of his class. He was rather intimidating about it, and I'm rather sensitive,
> so again I made a self advocacy error and simply said okay and unplugged the
> little mic. I want to confront him on this because I do feel as though I am
> missing a lot by not recording, and I was already told that it was a
> reasonable accommodation and that I could do it... I'm still a little
> intimidated though and I don't want to confront him if I don't have a leg to
> stand on.
>
> Do I have a leg to stand on? Is there any legal backing for this? Can he do
> this?
>
> Please help,
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Jamie
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