Fall 2023 - Teaching, Missed Classes & Mode of Delivery

To: Faculty and Contract Lecturers
CC: Deans, Associate Deans, Deans’ Office Admins, Senior HR Partners

With the Fall semester well underway, we write to remind you that faculty and contract lecturers who are assigned an in-person course cannot unilaterally change the mode of delivery to a remote/virtual delivery. 

If a faculty member or contract lecturer cannot attend class due to illness, they should follow normal, pre-pandemic sick leave processes on missing classes, which include notifying their Chair/Director and students, and may include cancelling and rescheduling the class. 

If faculty or contract lecturers are experiencing mild symptoms of illness but are well enough, willing and able to teach their course(s), they should discuss this with their Chair/Director and consider temporarily delivering the course remotely/virtually until their conditions improve and they can return to on-campus teaching. The Chair/Director should make the Dean aware of the need to change the mode of delivery. Faculty and contract lecturers cannot unilaterally make such a decision.

If faculty or contract lecturers are delivering a course in-person but have or develop a medical condition that requires an accommodation, the accommodation request must be directed to the Workplace Wellbeing Services office in Human Resources.

If a faculty member or contract lecturer requires a family status accommodation, please contact the Senior Human Resources Partner supporting your Faculty, who will share with you the process to determine if an accommodation plan is required.

Any approved accommodation that grants permission to deliver a course(s) virtually requires that Scheduling be notified.  

Thank you for your attention to this. We hope the rest of your Fall semester runs smoothly!

Sincerely,
Office of the Vice-Provost, Faculty Affairs