The Academic Senate has established Guidelines Concerning Scheduling Conflicts with Academic Requirements. These guidelines focus on the handling of conflicts that arise between extra-curricular activities and academic requirements, and specifically concern the schedules of student athletes and other students with activities that compete with academic obligations.
These policies were updated in Fall 2023. Briefly edited summary text:
"It is the student’s responsibility to inform the instructor ..., in writing, before the end of the second week of term of all foreseeable conflicts between the syllabus ... and scheduled ... activities in which the student will be participating (or might be participating) that would require absence from academic activities during the semester, as well as to provide a proposal for resolving these conflicts."
"When occasional conflicts arise, and the student has notified the instructor ...properly... and discussed the matter with the instructor ..., the instructor should try to accommodate the student."