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Volunteer Emergency Worker Policy

In July 2006 the State of Illinois passed the Volunteer Emergency Worker Higher Education Protection Act. This state law provides for accommodation to be made for students who volunteer to serve as emergency workers. If an absence is the result of a student’s role as a volunteer emergency worker an instructor is required to accommodate the absence within reason.

Students can appeal through the Records and Registration Appeals Committee if they believe the professor has not reasonably accommodated an absence resulting from volunteer emergency work.

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Policy Regarding Call-up of Students to Active Duty in the Military

Last Updated 9/25/2024

The call to active duty presents an extreme hardship upon students. In an effort to assist those students who are called to active duty, the campus has established the following policy.

Students who are called into active military duty during the course of an academic term, including the National Guard and Reserve active duty, will receive refunds and course credits as follows: