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The General College and College of Arts and Sciences each has a staff of advisors who are also full-time faculty members. At the student's request, his or her advisor will review his or her record and prepare a work sheet showing his or her status in his or her degree program. In addition, the advisors are available for consultation on any matter pertaining to the student's academic program. Students in the College of Arts and Sciences who are working toward a four-year baccalaureate degree also have a major department advisor.
Faculty members should note the different areas of responsibility in the latter dual advising system. The department advisor is concerned primarily with the student's major and related work and assisting the student with registration and pre-registration. The college advisor is concerned with the student's entire four-year record and determines whether or not all graduation requirements have been met.
---Faculty Handbook, 1985, as amended
If students, especially freshmen, are experiencing academic difficulty, the instructor should inform the students' advisor at the General College or their departmental advisor. This should be done as early in the semester as possible so there is adequate time for the student to get help. (You might want to have students write the name of their advisors on the information card they fill out for you at the beginning of the semester). In addition, you will receive a midterm grade report form for all freshmen enrolled in your courses. You should calculate an interim grade for your first-year students and return the form to the General College.
As an instructor, you may want to make use of off-air recordings of television programs, edited films, 35mm slides of pictures in books, anthologies of journal articles, and similar materials in your classes. However, there is a problem with the use of such copyrighted materials for instructional purposes. Notwithstanding the Fair Use clause of the Copyright Act of 1976, whether copies of a work may be used for instruction (and how much of it may be used) is still a matter for the courts to decide. Recent court rulings seem to favor the copyright owners rather than the teachers who use the material. Copy centers have become much more cautious about obtaining permission from copyright owners before duplicating articles for anthologies, so you will need to allow greater lead time if you are accustomed to using such material in your courses. Similarly, you should exercise extreme caution about the use of other kinds of materials such as off-air videotapes. If you have questions about the use or transformation of a specific work, general guidelines for using copyrighted material, or any other copyright concerns, please contact the University's Legal Counsel in the Chancellor's Office.
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Last updated: January 30, 2001