Jan. 6 classes
• Classes scheduled for before 6:30 p.m. will meet during their regular hours Feb. 1.
• Classes scheduled for after 6:30 p.m. will meet during their regular hours Jan. 31
Jan. 7 classes
• Classes scheduled for before 6:30 p.m. will meet during their regular hours Feb. 8.
• Classes scheduled for after 6:30 p.m. will meet during their regular hours Feb. 7.
If students are not able to make these dates, they must settle the situation with their instructors per pre-established attendance policies.
After Ball State announced one-day weekends to make up snow days, some students took to Twitter and asked, “#isthisajoke?”
Makeup classes will fall on two Fridays and two Saturdays, and many students took to Twitter to say they aren’t happy.
Ball State announced Wednesday that students will make up the two days missed because of inclement weather on Jan. 31, Feb. 1, Feb. 7 and Feb. 8.
“The university is providing an opportunity for students to receive educational content that was missed due to bad weather,” Provost Terry King said in a statement.
The university passed the policy, he said in a statement, to align Ball State with the Higher Learning Commission the Department of Education, which require a specific number of instruction days.
“Frankly, there is no great solution to this,” King said. “But this was the least disruptive, given the short time left in the semester.”
President Jo Ann Gora said Jan. 16 she expected the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to ask the university to make up the lost instruction time.
“We have an obligation to our students,” Gora said in a Board of Trustees meeting Jan. 16. “We don’t reduce their tuition costs, so we have an obligation to the instruction time.”
Yevgeniya Malyovanny, an administrative assistant with ICHE, said instruction length is for the university to decide.
“We don’t have any way to tell a university to [make up classes],” Malyovanny said. “That is something that is completely up to the university.”
Students responded immediately by taking to Twitter to express their displeasure of the university’s move.
“You must be a special kind of stupid if you think that anyone is going to Saturday classes, Ball State,” @alyssaleanne11 tweeted Wednesday.
@oliviaromero echoed several people’s sentiments that students can’t cancel plans to make up class time.
“Nobody has time to make up syllabus week on Friday and Saturday. Ball State you’re so confused. #isthisajoke,” she posted Wednesday.
A petition on Change.org was created looking to get Ball State to “cancel Saturday makeup days.”
At the time of print, the petition has reached a little more than half of the 500 signatures it hopes to have.
Amanda Boldt signed the petition saying she has other university responsibilities requiring her time on the weekend.
“The Department of Theatre and Dance has important rehearsals and performances on Saturdays, and students should not be penalized for participating in something so important for their major,” Boldt posted on the change.org petition.
Brittany Noe summed up her reason for opposing Saturday classes in one sentence.
“It’s unfair to me as a student and I refuse to go to class on a Saturday,” she wrote.
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