{"id":2712,"date":"2015-03-25T21:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T02:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/assu.ca\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2015-03-25T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:30:54","slug":"know-your-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/2015\/03\/25\/know-your-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, many of your courses which have instructors who are on strike will be meeting as called by the department\u00a0<\/strong>to discuss a vote to change the syllabus. \u00a0Members of the ASSU Executive tonight witnessed a department chair make statements that are not correct in regards to the syllabus.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, you would have received an e-mail from Dean David Cameron in regards to the Faculty of Arts and Science opening up the ability to declare CR\/NCR (Credit\/No Credit) or drop the course after you have received your marks. \u00a0The Faculty website<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

For all courses<\/strong><\/em> offered this term (both S and Y courses), and even in cases where numeric grades will be available, students can elect Credit\/No Credit (CR\/NCR) or choose to cancel (drop) a course \u00a0without academic penalty.\u00a0 The CR\/NCR will not count towards students\u2019 2.0 FCE maximum.\u00a0 The deadlines for both these options have been extended until after students have seen their final grades.\u00a0 Precise dates will be posted on the Arts & Science website shortly. Please continue to check this website regularly for updated information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This applies to\u00a0all courses.\u00a0<\/strong>Not just courses on strike, not just courses affected – all courses. If your department chair in the meeting claims that\u00a0while you have an option, if you vote to reject the syllabus – you may not be able to access the aforementioned options of declaring CR\/NCR or dropping the course,\u00a0please bare in mind that this is not true.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can vote anyway you like for the syllabus – but keep in mind that the syllabus votes only governs changes to the marking scheme (how things are weighted, when they are due, etc.). \u00a0Declaring credit\/no credit, dropping a course, or anything else – are not governed by the syllabus. \u00a0While ASSU does not agree with the academic continuity measures the Faculty has chosen, we will defend your rights to use it.<\/p>\n

We have also heard of courses choosing to pass syllabi changes with caveats – “we will not have the exam\u00a0if the TAs are still on strike by this date.<\/strong><\/em>“. This is not fair to our students, nor do we believe this is allowed. Please report all of these instances to ASSU.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind, there is no active policy<\/span> allowing departments to step into your course and administer it. This includes forcing you to hand in assignments directly to them<\/span>, or conducting syllabus votes. If you choose to challenge the department in this regard (ask them for\u00a0the specific policy that allows them to do this)<\/span> – you will have the support of the union. \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

ASSU will be meeting with the Faculty shortly – e-mail: students.assu@utoronto.ca with your questions and complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, many of your courses which have instructors who are on strike will be meeting as called by the department\u00a0to discuss a vote to change the syllabus. \u00a0Members of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}