As the new school year gets underway, we are sharing a few updates to BSN Program Policies.

Please note that the following policies have been discontinued by the UBC School of Nursing Faculty Caucus: Submission of Undergraduate Student Assignments, Request for Missed Clinical Time for Professional Engagement, and BSN Missed Practice Learning Experiences.

These three policies have been replaced by the new Academic Concession Request Policy for the Undergraduate Program.

Rationale:
Rationale for new policy:

• Over the last 5 years, UBC has created and regularly updated a central academic concession policy including UBC Senate approved procedures for implementation.
• This central UBC policy robustly outlines processes and procedures related to both in-term and term-end concession requests and has introduced expectations that “The options for making up for missed work should be described in the course syllabus.”
• In response to this policy, the undergraduate program created and has implemented an online Academic Concession Request System (ACRS) through which students request in-term and term-end academic concessions.
• Since the introduction and updating of the UBC concessions policy, several aspects of nursing undergraduate policies related to submission of work, concession related to missed clinical time, etc. are now more accurately and appropriately covered by the UBC policy.
• The new policy articulates the processes by which students must use the ACRS to request in-term & term-end concessions, as well as missed practice time, and the responsibilities of instructors (in-term work) and the Progressions committee (term-end work) with respect to concession.

Rationale for discontinuation of previous policies:

• University policies related to concession & content and distribution of syllabi outline the ways that information related to how assessments will be completed, submitted, assessed, and how concessions will be managed must be articulated in the course syllabus.
• The BSN Program Policy Progression and Advancement in the BSN Program and the new Academic Concession Request Policy for the BSN Program, cover all aspects of application for and review of concession requests, criteria for progression and advancement in the BSN Program, and processes for missed time in practice-based courses. Having multiple, overlapping policies increases the likelihood of confusion and contradiction among our policies.
• These policy updates allow increased flexibility for instructors to take up teaching and assessment practices that are aligned with their thoughtfully considered philosophies of teaching, while also using the Undergraduate Program Committee syllabi review and consultation process to ensure that all university and program-level policies are attended to and to ensure attention to curricular fidelity and accreditation standards.

Please consult the BSN Program Policies & Procedures website for up-to-date information on applicable program policies.

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