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Attached for your reference are the final Excused Absence Policy and Interim Undergraduate Grade Policy approved by the Undergraduate Committee and Provost Short. </p>
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<span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(31,73,125)">Regarding Hyflex courses: While F2F attendance cannot be required, can attendance be required with the student’s choice of either Face-to-face (F2F) or Synchronous online (subject to the excused absence policy)?</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; color:rgb(31,73,125)">Regarding Synchronous online courses: Can faculty set the expectation (requirement/grade) that students join online synchronously (subject to the excused absence policy)?</span></p>
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<div dir="ltr">Fritz Claydon Ph.D.<br>
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering <span style="font-weight:normal">
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Director of the Division of Undergraduate Programs and Student Success<span><br>
Director, Honors </span>Engineering Program</font></span><br>
University of Houston<br>
Cullen College of Engineering<br>
N310, Engineering Building 1<br>
Houston, Texas 77204-4005<br>
713.743.4204<br>
<a href="mailto:fclaydon@uh.edu" target="_blank">fclaydon@uh.edu</a><br>
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