The following off-campus 
event has been approved 
by the Associate Vice 
Chancellor for Academic 
Affairs and Graduate 
Studies.  If you have 
any questions, please do 
not hesitate to contact 
Wes Chapin at x0629. 
Thanks ~ 



TO:  UWRF Colleagues



RE:  Off-Campus, 
University-Sanctioned 
Event



FROM:  Terry Ferriss, 
Plant and Earth Science 
Dept



The Plant and Earth 
Science Department is 
sponsoring an off-campus 
activity and a student 
in your course might 
miss class time.  The 
offices of the Provost 
and the Associate Vice 
Chancellor of Academic 
Affairs require that 
students provide this 
notice to you no later 
than one week prior to 
their scheduled activity 
to be in compliance with 
appropriate policies.  
Your consideration in 
allowing them to 
complete course 
assignments and work in 
compliance with these 
university’s policies* 
is appreciated.  Thank 
you for your support and 
cooperation.  Additional 
details are below.



Dates & Times: April 17, 
2014, 10 am – 1 pm



Activity: HORT 420 Class 
Field Trip; Gerten’s in 
Inver Grove Heights , MN



Academic Rationale for 
Absence: This field trip 
provides students an 
opportunity to see 
commercial production of 
spring bedding plants 
which is a critical 
component of this 
class.  Applying the 
theory to real-world 
applications is best 
accomplished through 
interactive discussions 
with the commercial 
grower and actually 
observing the process in 
progress in the 
commercial greenhouse.  
The trip is during a 2 
hour lab but due to the 
travel time we will be 
gone for 3 hours.  Most 
students do not have 
another class in the 
hour right after lab but 
3-4 do have a class that 
starts at 12:35 so they 
have about a 30 minute 
overlap with the trip.



Faculty Contact 
Information:  



1.	Campus Address:  
306 AGS

2.	Office Phone 
Number:  3345

3.	Email: 
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Participating Students: 
Please provide a list of 
the students who are 
participating in this 
activity:



1.	

Balder,Emily 

Behnken,Amy 

Cameron,John 

Coopman,Jameson Charles 

Gasteyer,Brooke 

Haase,Mitchell 

Hattouni,Andrea 

Kluza,Jacob 

Kocon,Emily 

Kyllo,Victoria 

Lemke,Matthew 

Maher,Jacquelyn 

Prue,Ann Marie 

Rondeau,Andrew 

Rootes,Brittany 

Sehloff,Joel 

Warner,Jacob 

Zimmer,Anna 









Submit this completed 
form to 
[log in to unmask] for 
consideration by the 
office of the associate 
vice chancellor for 
academic affairs.



8.2.11 University 
Sponsored Off-campus 
Activities and Field 
Trips: Students will not 
be penalized for missing 
class in order to 
participate in 
University sanctioned 
events. If class 
attendance is a 
requirement, missing a 
class in order to 
participate in a 
University-sanctioned 
event will not be 
counted as an absence. 
Such absences do not 
relieve the students of 
any of their class 
responsibilities (e.g., 
homework, exams, lecture 
notes, etc.). Students 
are responsible for 
completing course 
requirements that are 
due on the dates of 
University-sanctioned 
events per prior 
agreement with the 
instructor. A University-
sanctioned event is 
defined to be any 
extracurricular event 
(e.g., educational field 
trips or conferences, 
theatrical performances, 
intercollegiate athletic 
contests, musical 
performance or tours, 
etc.) as approved by the 
Provost and Vice 
Chancellor for Academic 
Affairs.

http://www.uwrf.edu/Facul
tySenate/Handbook/Chapter
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