CYBERATTACK | Provost and deans give guidance for faculty academic expectations

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McAdams sent a clarifying message May 1, stating course assignments are due on the last day of class, Friday May 5, and faculty members can extend due dates at their discretion. Finals should occur at their original times and locations.

The original statement was a suggestion, McAdams said, as some classes may have been greatly affected by the outage and some not as affected.

Tim Walston, dean of math and science, said the first message, which the deans and the provost worked together to write, was supposed to convey the message that administration would have grace on faculty and that faculty should have grace on themselves as far as a realistic grading load. He said they didn’t want faculty to think they had to come back after a week without the Truman network and make everything due at the same time or try to make up for the work lost in the last three weeks on the Truman drives.