UMass Boston

FACULTY EXPECTATIONS AROUND MAKE UP WORK 

Please be reminded that while a faculty member is expected to make provisions to allow student-athletes to make up missed work when practical, faculty members have the absolute discretion in how they may request make up work be submitted and in what timeline they may expect missed work to be completed.   
  
Some faculty members may request that missed work be submitted in advance of a student-athlete’s departure; some faculty members may ask that missed work be submitted electronically at the same time it is due in class traditionally or some faculty members may request that missed work is submitted upon a student-athlete’s return. If a faculty member’s make-up policies place an undue burden on a student-athlete’s ability to complete course assignments, a student-athlete should contact the Assistant Athletic Director for Student Athlete Academic Success for assistance.  
  
If for any reason, a faculty member indicates that he or she will not allow a student-athlete to miss class for travel or competition, the student-athlete should contact the Assistant Athletic Director for Student Athlete Academic Success immediately. A student-athlete may not be unjustly penalized for missed class due to athletic travel or competition. 

UNIVERSITY SANCTIONED APPROVED ABSENCE LETTER 
 
During the first week of classes, it is the responsibility of a student-athlete to notify his or her faculty members in writing that he or she represents UMB Division III Athletics in a NCAA sponsored sport(s).   

• At least two weeks prior the first date of competition, it is the responsibility of a student-athlete to inform each faculty member of the anticipated competition and travel dates.  

• The Assistant Athletic Director for Student Athlete Academic Success will provide each head coach with the University Sanctioned Approved Absence Letter  

• The head coach will send out to their team(s) all departure times for competitions and the University Sanctioned Approved Absence Letter  

• The student athlete will use the departure information from their coach and update the letter accordingly.  

• The student athlete will email the professor the letter with a message that they are a UMB student athlete and that these are their class conflicts for a University Sanctioned Approved Absence  

• The student athlete will copy the head coach on the email.  

It is a student-athlete’s responsibility to be aware of assignment/exam due dates and request make up assignments or alternative exam dates if missed for athletic travel or competition.  This is not a shared burden; the faculty member has no obligation to schedule make-up work or alternative exam times without a specific request by a student-athlete to do so.  

• It is the student athlete’s responsibility to find an appropriate time to meet with each faculty member one-on-one to discuss the faculty member’s expectations related to missed class time and make up work.