1999-2000 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705

Academic Policies

Anticipated Class Absence for University Representation and Participation
The university community recognizes the values of student participation in cocurricular and extracurricular activities of the university. IUP has fostered this participation with an informal policy of good faith accommodation to meet overlapping demands of the curricular and extracurricular commitments.

The underlying spirit of good faith accommodation ultimately is set in the faculty member's unabridged right to determine the terms of variance, if any, from the established course syllabus—tests, quizzes, due dates for papers or other assignments, projects, presentations, and all other course operations.

In seeking variance, the student must take the initiative to make all arrangements including validation of participation as needed. The student should generally assume that papers and such assignments should be completed and submitted before the anticipated class absence. Alternate arrangements for tests, quizzes, labs, or class participation activity (panels, simulations, presentations) should be sought sufficiently in advance to permit faculty/student agreement on the plan for completion, whether the actual completion is rescheduled to be prior to or subsequent to the anticipated absence.

Approved by Council of Trustees - May 13, 1988.

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