3.06 Make-up Work and Missed Classes
Purpose:
To outline expectations and responsibilities of students and faculty
members when educationally appropriate activities require students to
be absent from classes.
Preamble:
The responsibility for attending classes rests with the student. As
the citizens of Iowa have every right to assume, students at UNI are expected
to attend class. This idea is neither novel nor unreasonable. Students
should realize that an hour missed cannot be relived, that work can seldom
be made up 100%, and that made-up work seldom equals the original experience
in class.
Policy Statement:
It is the expressed focus of the University of Northern Iowa to further
the educational development of its students. On occasion events will necessitate
a student’s absence from class. In order for both faculty and students
to effectively plan for these absences, the following procedures are recommended.
Procedure:
1. All parties involved should be made aware of scheduled absences well
ahead of the date(s) of absence. In the case of extra-curricular activities,
a semester long schedule should be prepared and distributed at the beginning
of the semester. In instances where semester-long schedules are not feasible,
two weeks written notification shall be given for all absences. This notification
shall take place even if the absence is potential rather than definite.
Assuming that appropriate notification has been provided, students and
faculty shall mutually agree as to how assignments, lectures, exams, etc.
shall be made up. The type and extent of make-up work shall be at the
discretion of the faculty member.
2. Occasionally there will occur situations in which two weeks notice
is impossible. On these occasions, students, faculty, and others concerned
should work closely together to ascertain whether special arrangements
can and/or should be made.
3. Faculty shall not penalize a student for missing a class or exam
for an educationally appropriate activity, including university sponsored
or sanctioned events.
4. Where situations of irreconcilable disagreement occur which are not
resolved at the department level, a panel comprised of the Vice President
for Academic Affairs, or that officer’s designee, the Department
Head of the academic department involved, and a representative of the
extra-curricular program (where applicable) shall meet at their earliest
convenience with the faculty member and the student to mediate the matter.
Faculty Senate, Approved 4/24/00
President’s Cabinet, Approved 4/23/01 | 
