Policies for Canceling Class

If you must cancel a class due to illness, an emergency, or some other unforeseen event, please do the following:

1. Contact your students via e-mail.

Please indicate to your students on the syllabus that they should have access to their UofL e-mail and either check that e-mail regularly or forward that e-mail to an account they do check regularly. You can then e-mail all your students using blackboard. Instructions for e-mail students via blackboard.

2. Contact Linda Baldwin at 502-852-6896.

Linda will put a note about the cancellation on your classroom door and record the cancellation in the department's log in case students come to the composition office looking for you.

3. If you teach at 8AM,

please chose a "cancelation buddy"-- another instructor in the department who teaches at 8AM. Exchange home and/or cell phone numbers with your buddy in the event that you need to cancel your classes but cannot reach Linda early enough. This should avoid instances of someone leaving Linda a message requesting that she cancel an 8AM class on a day when she is not in the office by 8.

If Linda is out of the office for the day, please call the English department at 502-852-6801.