The Dean of Faculty’s Office provides information regarding course attendance.

• Course attendance policies and guidelines for absences (includes religious holiday policy)

The Office of Student Affairs provides a number of resources for syllabus creation, including several Bates-wide policies related to attendance, course deferral, academic integrity that are critical for inclusion: 

• Course deferral guidelines
• Academic integrity policies
• Student support and advising resources

The Student Academic Support Center provides syllabus language that provides students with information on peer-led support for introductory and intermediate level courses in mathematics, statistics, programming, natural sciences, life sciences, quantitative social sciences, and music theory; workshops in quantitative skills, time management, note-taking, and study skills; and the Course-Attached Tutors (CATs) program.

• SASC Syllabus Blurb

The Student Writing and Language Center provides several handouts and videos to support course design, syllabus creation, and universal design for learning.

• SWSC and W-CAT, Syllabus Blurbs
• Fall 2020 New Faculty Orientation Writing@Bates Syllabus Development Session
• Universal Design Syllabus Workshop (2017 May Conference)
• Universal Design for Writing Instruction (2019 New Faculty Orientation Handout)

The Center for Purposeful Work: As you work with students looking to connect their academic endeavors to meaningful work beyond the classroom, please encourage them to engage with activities to explore purposeful work and reach out to the Purposeful Work team with interests and questions. Students benefit significantly from working with faculty who actively seek to help them translate their knowledge and skills to professional contexts. If you as a faculty member are interested in explicitly connecting your course content to discussions of meaning, purpose, work and/or careers, consider joining a long list of faculty peers in the Purposeful Work Infusion Project.

Student Center for Belonging and Community: As you work with students coming from a diverse array of backgrounds and experiences, particularly those with minoritized identities from historically underserved communities, please encourage them to access the various student support resources available to them across campus and reach out to the team with questions and concerns, especially as they relate to navigating their identities, needs, and spaces while at Bates. If you as a faculty member are interested in how to best support our increasingly diverse student population, do not hesitate to reach out to the team for consultation and support.

• Scholarly Communications
• Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library

The ILS division of Curriculum and Research Computing oversees a handful of specialized computing spaces on campus, including the Digital Media Studios. The DMS website includes resources that may be useful in syllabus design, including available support for video projects, podcast/audio projects, and a catalog of the various facilities and loaner equipment.

The Harward Center provides resources for faculty to build understanding of principles and effective practices for community-engaged learning.

Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (UDL): http://udloncampus.cast.org/page/planning_syllabus

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health: https://www.bates.edu/research/files/2018/07/Mailman-School-Syllabus-Toolkit.pdf