The Student Health Services does not provide doctors excuses for single visits and minor health problems. Instructors should make all serious requirements explicit in their policy statements. In case of an illness that will require absence from class for more than one week, the student should notify his or her academic dean. The dean's office will inform the student's instructors through the departmental office. Extended absences for illness are easily documented and the instructor is perfectly within his or her rights asking for hospital admission receipts and doctors visit receipts.
Nobody misses a week of school for illness without some paper evidence of medical attention.
Students who have missed a class period are nevertheless responsible for homework due the next class meeting. This requirement should be made explicit on the instructor's policy statement and brought to the attention of the class orally within the first several days of class. What the instructor may consider generosity in not applying rigorous deadlines is often taken by the students to be a lack of concern for the material itself, sometimes inadvertently encouraging the student to turn in work late or not at all. 1.1.5 Final Exams University policy demands that all composition classes sit for finals on the day and time assigned. Instructors should inform students about these final exams early in the semester and again as the end of the term approaches.