NonDiscrimination and accessibility statement
Mountain Studies Institute complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity).
Mountain Studies Institute is committed to providing persons with disabilities equal opportunity to participate in or benefit from its programs, services, and activities through its compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Mountain Studies Insitute recognizes that persons with disabilities may need reasonable modifications to have equal opportunities to participate in or benefit from MSI’s programs, services, and activities. It is Mountains Studies Institute’s policy that no otherwise qualified individual with a disability will be denied access to or participation in any program, service, or activity offered by MSI. Mountain Studies Institute will administer programs, services, and activities in the most integrated setting appropriate to the needs of qualified persons with disabilities.
Mountain Studies Institute will provide at no cost appropriate auxiliary aids and services where necessary to afford people with disabilities an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from the programs, services, and activities provided by MSI. Auxiliary aids and services may include qualified interpreters to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and must be provided in a timely manner and in such a way as to protect the privacy and independence of the individual. Persons with disabilities have a right to request reasonable modifications to allow them to participate in or benefit from MSI’s services and activities. Mountain Studies Institute and any of its agents will not coerce, intimidate, retaliate against, or discriminate against any individual for exercising a right under Section 504, or for assisting or supporting another to exercise a right under Section 504. This Program and Policy applies to all MSI subrecipients, agents and contractors.
Mountain Studies Institute recognizes that we are a guest in the homeland territory of the Ute, Dine’ and Ancestral Puebloan peoples. MSI extends our respect and gratitude to the many indigenous people who call these lands home.
If you have any questions about this notice or any of Mountain Studies Institute’s non-discrimination programs, policies or procedures, you may contact:
Melissa May, Executive Director
(970)316-3833
