Missing Students

The Missing Students program exists as an important retention effort to help identify students who may be struggling with any number of issues which are affecting their academic performance.  
 
A “missing” student would be defined as one having missed more than two successive class periods with no notice to the instructor.  The process for reporting the student first involves you sending the student an e-mail about their absences and copying your academic counseling liaison on it.  Furthermore, the process would involve calling or sending an email message to your department’s academic counseling liaison (see liaison listings below)
 
In your report, it is helpful to include the following information:
 
• Name of student (an ID # is also very helpful)
• Course from which the student is missing
• General length of time absent or number of classes missed
•  If possible, a recommendation on whether the student could successfully return to class and make   up missed work, or if student should drop class
•  Phone number(s) I could use to reach you
 
Once we receive a report, we will make at least three efforts to contact the student. We will report back what we find out (in some cases a lot; in some, nothing). 

 Department Liaisons for Missing Students