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Thursday, September 3, 2009
H1N1 Information for Faculty
Because students need to know how your professors are directed to deal with absences related to the swine flu epidemic on the horizon, I'm posting the official Baylor website. Faculty members are encouraged to make course materials available to students so that they don't have to come to class if they are ill. However, the mandatory attendance policy is not rescinded. That means that you need to be especially careful to attend all classes so that, if you do become ill, you have an emergency stash of unused absences. Wash your hands, don't hang out with people who have a temperature or other flu symptoms, get enough rest, eat nutritiously, and stay well. And just ask your parents if you don't believe me. (That last statement is a joke in case you missed my attempt at humor.)
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I find it funny how many Baylor students that I encounter still believe that H1N1 is just a joke and that it can't happen to them because they aren't piglets. For example, I heard some girls talking this morning in my Mythology class and one girl made a sarcastic comment about the swine flu, to which the other responds, "Hey! That's not funny. My biology teacher's little son has the swine flu and it's not funny at all."
ReplyDeleteI work at a pet store and come into contact with people and money for 7 hours a day. I'm considering investing in a box of plastic gloves to wear like they do at Walmart, because you never know what could be on the things they give to you. That is probably the best idea I've had all day... :)
Speaking of Swine Flu and other related circumstances that can occur in one's life, I find Baylor to be unreasonable compared to other private schools.
ReplyDeleteOne of my best girlfriends attends a private school just outside of Chicago. When her Grandma died, regardless of the absence policy, they gave her the time she knew she would be gone to go back home and be with her loved ones during this tough time.
I may be having to go through the same situation as my Grandpa is not doing very well and is on his last days.
Compared to other Christian schools I have visited and spent some time at, it seems as if Baylor is not as understanding as they represent themselves to be and saying, "School is more important then being with your loved ones during a difficult time."
Baylor may be a top Christian school but in other things I have researched and found, in my opinion, they are not what they are cracked up to be.
I have to agree with Emily on that statement. Baylor is really unforgivig when it comes to absences. We're paying the money to take the classes and have the education it should be our responsibility as adults to go to class in order to make the grades to succede. I lost my grandfather last year and i'm about to lose one of my grandmother's in the next few days, but Baylor in no way cares a few professors will excuse you if you explain the situation and not count you absent but that is a very very very small group.
ReplyDeleteAs a rule to succede in class you must attend unless you're Albert Einstein or Werner Van Braun or someone like that then you might be able to just walk in and succede, but I think it is rediculous for an accredited university with a history of academic success such as Baylor should for their students to attend and subsequently fail students who have A's just because they didn't attend enough classes.
A person of whom i am very close to just lost her grandfather and her grandmother had a life threatening surgery but because of Baylor's policy she had to drive home to spend the night only to wake up at5 in the morning to make it back in time for class and then return in the afternoon to repeat the same process. It is physically incapacitating for someone to have to go through that and be able to function as a student.
I think Baylor should revise their policy and allow those who wish to fail fail or at least allow for personal and familial emergencies that are unfroseeable for students. If the suicide of ones roommate can subsequently allow you to pass with A's and go home at the beggining of a semeseter then why when someone's mother, father, or grandparent not be of the same value.
I am one of the skeptics when it comes to the H1N1. All I have to say is get lots of sleep and make sure you wash your hands.
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