OFFICE HOURS AND STUDENT ACCESS

Faculty members are expected to announce to their class and have on file in the department office a list of office hours set aside for student advisement and consultation. Departments and colleges are expected to set policies governing the scheduling of office hours so that office hours are adequate in number and reasonably distributed through the week. Emergency questions regarding student grades often come up in the weeks immediately following final examinations. Faculty members are obliged to be in contact with their department offices, and available to students, by appointment, through the academic year up until the end of the contract year (typically late May). During the summer months, faculty members should leave contact information with their chairs and department secretaries, in case students or University officials need to be in contact with the faculty member. Faculty members who will be completely unavailable during the summer should inform their chairs of this.

VPAA 8/15/05