One example, taken from the First-Year Seminar syllabus guidelines:

“If you are a student with a disability who seeks accommodation or other assistance in this course, please let me know as soon as possible. Kalamazoo College is committed to making every effort to providing reasonable accommodations. If you want to discuss your overall needs for accommodation at the College, please direct questions to the Associate Dean of Students Office, (269) 337-7209. For more information, please visit the Student Life page for Disability Services: https://www.kzoo.edu/student-life/students-with-disabilities/.”

“Religious accommodations: please contact your instructor well in advance of the need for accommodations around attendance or deadlines due to religious observance. For more information on religious accommodations and observance on campus, please see the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life or contact Chaplain Liz Candido (ecandido@kzoo.edu or at 269.337.7362).”

Taken from the First-Year Seminar syllabus guidelines, developed in collaboration with the Provost and Dean of Students:

“This course operates under the College Honor System.  That means:  we treat each other with respect, we nurture independent thought, we take responsibility for personal behavior, and we accept environmental responsibility. Academic honesty is a critical part of our value system at K.  When you borrow an idea, express the idea in your own words, thus thinking it through and making it your own, and acknowledge the source of the idea in a note, or, in certain situations, use the exact words of the source in quotation marks and acknowledge with a note.  Ideas raised in class are part of the public domain and, therefore, sources of the ideas need not be acknowledged.  If you are ever in doubt about this, you must ask. For the full policy, please see the Student Development page for Academic Dishonesty: https://studev.kzoo.edu/policies/academic-dishonesty/.”

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If class resources rely on the support of the Library or Information Services, they must be confirmed before submitting a proposal. Resources must be ensured as either available or acquirable by the respective departments. For Library resources, please contact (library@kzoo.edu). For IS resources, please contact the Help Desk (helpdesk@kzoo.edu). For more information, please visit the faculty support pages available here:

• Library – Faculty Support
• Information Services – Faculty Tools

The weight of attendance/participation generally should not exceed 20% of the overall grade, unless there is a compelling pedagogical reason to make an exception.  In all cases, but most especially those where the weight is at or near this maximum level, we feel it advisable to be as specific as possible in setting the parameters for assessing attendance/participation (e.g. what does active participation look like?  How many points are lost for being absent?).  When crafting these specifics, please bear in mind the following College policies:

• Faculty may not request doctors’ notes from students who report missing class for illness;
• Student athletes should not be penalized for missing class when they have scheduled games, but can be assigned alternative work; and
• Faculty may not require activities scheduled outside of regular class times without offering an alternative to students who have a conflict.