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Special Fall 2009 Flu Protocols

In compliance with Pennsylvania Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control recommendations, students should NOT attend class or any public gathering while ill with influenza. Students with flu symptoms will be asked to leave campus, if possible, and to return home during recovery. The illness and self-isolation period will usually be about a week. It is very important that individuals avoid spreading the flu to others.

Most students should be able to complete a successful semester despite a flu-induced absence. Faculty will provide students who are absent because of illness with a reasonable opportunity to make up missed work. Ordinarily, it is inappropriate to substitute for the missed assignment or exam. Completion of all assignments and exams assures the greatest chance for students to develop heightened understanding and content mastery that is unavailable through the weighting process. The opportunity to complete all assignments and exams supports the university's desire to enable students to make responsible situational decision, including the decision to avoid spreading a contagious virus to other students, staff, and faculty, without endangering their academic work.

Ill students should inform their teachers as soon as possible that they are absent because of the flu, but not through personal contact in which there is a risk of exposing others to the virus. Likewise students should contact their instructors as quickly as possible to arrange the make-up of missed assignments or exams.

Your care and cooperation will be greatly appreciated throughout the coming semester.