What if my student request to continue his/her academic program and maintain registration status during the pregnancy?
Staff at Student Assistive Services and the Women’s Resource Center can provide information and assistance with academic accommodations (grading, absences, internships, etc.) to graduate students. More information and useful contacts available here. A student can decide if they wish to continue to pursue academic goals during the pregnancy or parenting period. Accommodation plans associated with academic studies could involve modification or postponement of assignments, examinations or other academic work, as well as extensions of programmatic requirements and academic milestones. Modified academic work might be accompanied by accommodations such as the assignment of incomplete grades. Enrollment in directed study and research units, during the semester leading up to the pregnancy or the semester following the birth, may be a viable solution to offer students more flexibility during this time, as the committee sees fit.