The Senate of Michigan Technological University


PROPOSAL 5-69

CURTAILMENT OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

 

While we realize that certain extra-curricular activities are vital to the students' total education and that some instructors may choose to schedule examinations and other class work so as to accommodate activities such as homecoming, winter carnival, and other major events, we also recognize that both the student's and the instructor's primary commitment is to formal education and we fully respect the right of instructors to schedule examinations and class work during the regularly scheduled school year without regard to the student's extra-curricular activities, that it is the student's obligation to schedule his time accordingly. We recommend against any curtailment of classes in addition to those presently scheduled so long as the educational objective of the various curricula remain unchanged.

 


Proposal Adopted by Senate: 22 January 1969
President: A philosophical position not requiring administrative implementation