{"id":2400,"date":"2026-01-18T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/?page_id=2400"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:38:40","slug":"personal-and-academic-leaves-of-absence-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/ss\/personal-and-academic-leaves-of-absence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaves of Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students may take a leave of absence or withdraw voluntarily from the college at any time by meeting with the\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dsevigny@bates.eud\">Director of Student Support Services<\/a>. There are a variety of reasons a student may choose to take a leave or to withdraw from the college. If you are considering one of these options, we encourage you to meet with the\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dsevigny@bates.edu\">Director of Student Support Services<\/a>\u00a0early on to begin a conversation regarding your options and to be sure you have enough time to plan accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"pageChildren\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-56\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/ss\/personal-and-academic-leaves-of-absence-2\/medical-leave-policy\/\">Medical Leave Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-24\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/ss\/personal-and-academic-leaves-of-absence-2\/personal-and-academic-leaves-of-absence\/\">Personal and Academic Leaves of Absence<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:150px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students may take a leave of absence or withdraw voluntarily from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1925,"featured_media":0,"parent":2042,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2400","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2400\/revisions\/2403"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accessible-education-student-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}