Spring 2004 Makeup Classes

February 18, 2004

After careful consideration of a wide range of alternatives by which to make up the class sessions lost to inclement weather on Monday, January 26 (all day) and Tuesday, January 27 (classes starting before 10:00am and after 4:30pm), the following has been selected as the most viable plan to make up these classes.  It is important to note that this make up schedule applies only to courses offered through the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the Elliott School of International Affairs, the School of Business, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Graduate School of Education and Human Development and the School of Public Health and Health Services.  The Law School and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences will announce their own make up schedules to their faculty and students.

Monday, January 26: make up on Thursday, April 29 (1st reading day) or at some other time during the semester that is arranged through the Academic Scheduling Office.  Faculty are encouraged to work with the students in their classes to identify other acceptable meeting times earlier in the semester to make up classes.  All such make up sessions should be scheduled with the Academic Scheduling Office, even if they will be held in departmental space.

Tuesday, January 27 (classes starting before 10:00am or after 4:30pm): make up on Tuesday, April 27, the scheduled make up day.  Other make up classes will be scheduled on a space-available basis.

 It is recognized that this plan poses a number of difficulties and inconveniences.        

The most significant is that it places 3 Mondays in 4 days at the end of the semester (April 26, last regular Monday; April 28, designated Monday to balance the class schedule; April 29, "snow day Monday").  Obviously this is far from ideal from pedagogical and learning perspectives, but the alternative make up dates (e.g., President's Day holiday, a Saturday, during Spring Break, extending the semester) posed even more daunting challenges. 

Moreover, by announcing the make up schedule at this point in the semester, faculty will have nearly three months to adjust their syllabi accordingly.

Loss of a reading day also is an undesirable consequence of this plan; however, since the reading days are contiguous with a weekend, students will still have three full days of preparation before the beginning of final exams on May 3.

Finally, making up classes canceled because of professional travel or illness will be more difficult because the available time slots will be limited on the scheduled make up day, April 27.  As always, the Academic Scheduling Office will work with faculty to schedule make up classes at other times during the semester.

Please accept my thanks in advance for your cooperation in adjusting to this difficult situation.

Craig Linebaugh
Associate Vice President for Academic Planning and Development