Recently Updated Policies

• Added clarification that instructors should provide the course syllabus within the first week of classes.
• In response to the Equity Lens Policy Review committee feedback, suggested inclusion of personal pronouns on syllabus.
• In response to student advocacy, added a provision that instructors must communicate expected timeframe to complete assessments of student work.
• Incorporated language from two separate policies that will be retired (Faculty Responsibility in Undergraduate Advising and Providing In-progress Notifications on Academic Performance).
• Updated the FAQs.

Comprehensive Review, Minor revisions:

• Provided additional language to the descriptions of grades requirement
• Reference to alternative formats is now listed as a requirement in the policy rather than the appendix.
• Added an “If applicable” reference to the Student Travel and Education Abroad policy
• Added an FAQ about a resource for developing syllabi.

Comprehensive Review, Minor Revisions. Continued use of CITI Program, require RCR Core course implementation for all researchers, regardless of funding source or role in a study, to provide continuity and reduction of redundancy in education requirements for sponsored projects and to serve as a PI.