announcement: Approved 10/5/2015
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October 3, 2015
TO: UWRF Colleagues
RE: Off-Campus, University-Sanctioned Event
FROM: Kerry Keen, Plant & Earth Science Department
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 (“activities should not be scheduled during the final exam period or one week prior to final examinations”): Departing: October 16, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.;   Returning: Oct. 16, 2015 at 5:00 p.m.
Activity: Students in Stratigraphy & Sedimentation (Geology 362) will take a field trip to a Fairmount-Santrol Silica Sand Mine near Bay City, Wisconsin
Academic Rationale for Absence: This is an unparalleled opportunity for sedimentary geology students to observe and study a geologic formation in the subsurface.  Because of the schedule of mining operations, we can only do this trip this fall on a weekday.  (We will be leaving one hour earlier than our normally-scheduled lab time of 2:00-5:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon to accommodate the mine operations schedule.)
Faculty Contact Information:
1.Campus Address:  302 Ag. Science Building
2.Office Phone Number:  715-425-3729
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Participating Students: Please provide a list of the students who are participating in this activity:
George Beduhn, Nicole Brasaemle, James Briggs, Joao dos Santos Neto, Joseph Henson, Patricia Mayer, Matthew McNeil, Jeremy Mitchell, Donald Pierquet-Flores, Timothy Sandmann, Justin Walde
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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/FacultySenate/Handbook/Chapter8/


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