Excuses and Absence Notices

The University administration, consistent with this policy, does not normally issue excuses for students' absences from class. Occasionally, however, a student may miss class due to a University-sanctioned educational activity, such as participation in a Fisk Jubilee Singers'^® tour or a scheduled athletic competition. Excuses for absence due to participation in University-sanctioned activities are issued by the Provost. In such cases, students are given the opportunity to make up work missed. On occasion, the Office of the Provost may also receive documentation of a student's illness, death in a student's family, or of a similar emergency. In these situations, the Office of the Provost may, at its discretion, issue memorandum requesting faculty members to permit the student reasonable latitude to make up any class work missed during the period of the emergency. Such memoranda, however, do not constitute excuses for absence and students remain at all times bound by the stated policy in the courses in which they are enrolled.