Work Missed during the Term
The basic responsibility for permitting postponement of work during the term is the instructor's. However, in certain instances the residential college dean has authority to give permission for a student to make up work missed or delayed during the term because of an incapacitating illness, the death of a relative, or a comparable emergency. The residential college dean also has authority to give permission to make up work missed because of the observance of religious holy days and because of participation in certain specified intercollegiate events. Only in these cases does a residential college dean have authority to give permission to make up late work during term time. The college dean conveys this permission by means of a special form that the student delivers to the instructor. It is expected that the instructor will honor the residential college dean's permission to make up late or missed work in the instructor's course.
In all other cases of missed work during the term, permission to make up course work must be secured directly from the instructor of the course, since the instructor is the only person who can decide, in the context of the nature and requirements of the course, whether such permission is appropriate.
It is important for an instructor to know that his or her authority to give permission to make up late or missing work does not extend beyond the end of the term. Permission to submit work still incomplete at the end of the term may be granted only by a student's residential college dean. See "Work Incomplete at the End of Term."
