Recommended Citation
June 4, 2024.
Resolution Contents
Adopts the attached Class Attendance Policy revisions; and it further resolves that the academic senate discourage faculty members from requesting a note or other verification of illness; and it further resolves that faculty who feel compelled to require a note or other verification of illness or injury should not limit that verification to a note from a “physician,” but from a “health care professional,” inclusive of telehealth services; and it further resolves that the appropriate Academic Senate committee collaborate with the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology to develop both syllabus language and messaging to faculty about appropriate and inclusive mechanisms for accommodating students with mental health concerns to prevent undue burden on faculty workload and ensure fair treatment of students; and it further resolves that this revision to the excused absence policy go into effect Fall 2024 and will be communicated to campus by the Academic Senate prior to that term.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/senateresolutions/967
President's Response to Resolution
SUPPORTED