Missing Class for Medical Reasons?

If you are too ill to make it to class or have to miss class for a doctor's appointment, then it is in your best interest to always let your professor know in advance, if possible. Even if you e-mail or call just before class or send word to your professor by a friend, it makes a good impression that you made the effort to notify him or her.

The Wesson Health Center staff will not provide a medical excuse for class when you are seen in the clinic, but they will provide written documentation as to when you were seen in the clinic. Whether an absence for medical reasons is treated differently from any other absence is determined by each individual professor.