Policy: click to access Senate Policy 42-27, Class Attendance
Click to access Procedure R-4, Religious Holidays
1. Students who wish to miss a class in order to participate in a regularly scheduled, University-approved curricular or extracurricular activity should present a class absence form signed by the sponsoring agency or university department and should provide it to the faculty member as soon as possible and at least one week in advance of the planned absence. Within reason, the student should have the opportunity to make up missed work.
2. If an instructor believes a requested absence for such events will harm a student scholastically, the instructor should present evidence for necessary action to the head of the department in which the course is offered and inform the associate dean of the college in which the student is enrolled, or to the Division of Undergraduate Studies if the student is so enrolled.
3. Students who believe they have been unfairly denied a make-up opportunity should, after trying to resolve the problem with the course instructor, contact the head of the department for the course in which the student is enrolled.
4. If the problem is not resolved, the student should contact the sponsoring agency or university department (in some instances, this may be the student's college assistant/associate dean for undergraduate programs or the student's campus director of academic affairs) and provide documentation describing the unresolved make-up opportunity. The sponsoring agency or university department should attempt to resolve the problem.
5. If the problem is still unresolved, the sponsoring agency or university department should forward the documentation to the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and International Programs for resolution.
6. Instructors should provide, within reason, opportunity to make up evaluative events for students who miss class for other legitimate, but unavoidable reasons such as illness, family emergency, or injury. (Religious observance is considered a legitimate reason for absence and is covered under AAPP R-4. Students planning to miss class for religious observance should inform the instructor in a timely manner and should be afforded reasonable opportunity to make up work.)
7. While notifying the instructor in a timely manner is a key expectation, the university does not mandate official documentation of student illness or other unavoidable reasons for absence.
8. Effective Fall 2002, University Health Services will not provide verification of illness forms for minor illnesses or injuries. Verification will be provided only for serious illnesses for which UHS clinicians provided services, or when UHS has received such documentation from outside providers.
9. Claims of legitimate or unavoidable absence based on false claims may
be considered violations of the policy on Academic Integrity (Senate Policy
49-20, AAPP G-9).
Policy: click to access Senate Policy 42-27, Class Attendance
Click to access Procedure R-4, Religious Holidays
September 1998: Taken from the 1997/98 Student Guide to University Policies and Rules