Located on the Bogue Sound including a 1.3 mile walking trail, Carteret Community College invites the community to enjoy the beauty of our campus. Carteret CC recognizes that animal owners may wish to share our campus with their furry friends and has developed the Animals in Campus Policy to accommodate as many four-legged friends as possible.
Service Animals
Service animals are not considered an accommodation under the ADA, and therefore do not have to have any official documentation to be on campus. Although not required, the College encourages students with service animals to notify Disability Services if they will have a service animal on campus.
If you think you may need accommodations, please make a Request for Accommodations with Disability Services.
Emotional Support Animals
Emotional support animals (often referred to as therapy or comfort dogs) provide emotional and/or psychological support to a person with a medical condition that is not necessarily disabling. The emotional support animal may be well trained to offer companionship or comfort; however, it is not trained to do a specific task(s) for symptom relief.
Emotional support animals have NO public access rights under ADA regulations. Students with emotional support animals will need to go through the formal Request for Accommodations process and provide documentation to have their animal in classroom, clinical, and other learning spaces. The student must also provide updated veterinary records that show the animal has been properly vaccinated as required by local city and county ordinances.
Domestic Animals
Well-behaved, trained, and leashed domestic animals may visit the Carteret CC campus as prescribed in the Animals in Campus Policy.