Information on campus closings is announced by the OU emergency alert system, the television media, the OUHSC or OU-Tulsa home page, and at 405-271-6499 (OKC) or 918-660-3999 (Tulsa).
If academic units of the Health Sciences Center Campus or OU-Tulsa Campus are officially closed by the Senior Vice President and Provost or the University President due to hazardous weather or other conditions, students are excused from all didactic courses. If a single campus is affected, the College computing staff will attempt to initiate video capture of all classroom lectures which are being video-conferenced, so that, at the discretion of the instructor, those class sessions may be made available via video streaming.
Students assigned to be in the clinic setting on the Health Sciences Center Campus or OU-Tulsa campus when a campus and/or an academic unit is officially closed, due to hazardous weather or other conditions, are dismissed from clinic. This clinic time is not required to be made up, so long as the closure impacts 3 days of clinic or fewer for seniors and 2 days of clinic or fewer for juniors, during a given semester.
However, students in clinic are considered professionals-in-training and are learning the responsibilities of health care providers whose services are vital to patients, clinics, and hospitals. Therefore, students are still held responsible for meeting performance and competency requirements for each semester, and as such, fulfillment of these minimum standards may necessitate making up of the allotted clinic time in order to complete the requirements.
If a campus is not officially closed, and a student chooses not to attend classes or clinic due to the weather or other conditions, they must follow the policies for notification of absence and will be responsible to making up missed clinic time and appropriate class activities. These absences may be unexcused. See course syllabus for details related to unexcused absences.
Some clinic affiliates recognize holidays that are not observed by the University. When students are assigned to such a clinic site, they are not responsible for clinic attendance that day but must notify their clinic coordinator of such holidays and attend all scheduled classes.
In the unlikely event that a clinic affiliate unexpectedly closes for equipment updates or other reasons, a student must contact his/her clinic coordinator or program director immediately for assignment to another facility or alternate activity.
Additional policies and procedures of interest to students, general safety, hazardous weather, and emergency services may be found at the Campus Police and Public Safety website.
