Faculty members chuckled when make-up Saturdays were addressed at the Faculty Senate meeting Thursday afternoon, but administrators stressed the need to compensate for missed face-to-face class time.
“This is a day we assigned for classes,” Associate Provost Marilyn Buck said. “There shouldn’t be classes that are canceled without notifying the department chair as to why and what is going on.”
Provost Terry King said material from lecture courses can be made up easily online, but with other class structures it is more difficult.
“Labs, studios, night classes are problematic,” he said. “We had to figure out some way to make available make-up time to students in class.”
Faculty expressed concerns about the university’s trust in their management of their classes.
University senate chairperson and associate professor of exercise science David Pearson said he did not like the wording of the email.
“I thought it was somewhat demeaning to faculty in that there isn’t enough trust in us being able to deliver class material,” Pearson said. “It seems to me that it left a gray area; I’ve already made up material.”
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