Student Parent

A parenting student or student with familial status, regardless of marital status, who wants to remain engaged in their coursework while adjusting their academic responsibilities because of the birth or adoption of a child, placement of a foster child, recent event requiring medical attention for a child under the age of 18, or extraordinary caretaking or parenting responsibilities shall work directly with their advisor, faculty, or the Title IX coordinator or designee.

Modified Academic Responsibilities
Students seeking a period of modified academic responsibilities may consult with their academic advisor or with the Title IX coordinator or designee to determine appropriate academic modification requests. The Title IX coordinator or designee will communicate all requests under this procedure to students' academic advisors and coordinate efforts with the advisors unless the student specifically request that their advisors be excluded.

Advisors and Faculty
Students are encouraged to work with their advisors and faculty members to reschedule course assignments, lab hours, examinations, or other requirements and/or to reduce their overall course load as appropriate.

Support from Title IX
If, for any reason, parenting students are not able to work with their advisors or faculty members to obtain appropriate modifications, students should alert the Title IX coordinator or designee as soon as possible, and the office will evaluate and facilitate modifications.

Timed Degree, Certification, or Credentialing Programs
In timed degree, certification, or credentialing programs, students who seek modifications upon the birth or placement of their child will be allowed an extension of up to six months to prepare for and take preliminary and qualifying examinations, and an extension of up to six months toward normative time to degree while in candidacy, to the extent those deadlines are controlled by the college or university. Longer extensions may be granted in extenuating circumstances.

Parenting students can request modified academic responsibilities under this procedure regardless of whether they elect to take a leave of absence.