14.6    MAKE-UP EXAMINATIONS

        (Adopted by UMBC Faculty Senate October, 1991)

         Make-up examinations shall be provided without penalty when the student's absence is the
result of religious observance, illness, death in the immediate family, participation in official
University activities at the request of appropriate faculty or staff, or other compelling circumstances
beyond the student's control.

          In the case of illness or death in the immediate family, the instructor may require the student
to provide documentation from a personal health care provider, Student Health Services4 or other
official source.

        With respect to participation in scheduled, authorized University activities, the instructor's
obligation to give a make-up examination is conditional on prior notice of the absence on official
departmental stationery by the appropriate faculty or administrator. The student is responsible for
seeing that the notice reaches the instructor in a timely fashion.

        With other requests, the instructor has the option of determining whether compelling
circumstances exist. In cases of dispute, the student may appeal to the Chair of the Department
offering the course. Appeals must be made within one week of refusal of the request to take a make-
up examination.

        With respect to make-up examinations on religious holidays, the Board of Regents approved
a policy on March 23, 1979.5


        4
            This is now known as University Health Services.
        5
            The Board of Regents 1990 policy does not make any specific reference to make-up examinations.