Swine Flu ( H1N1) Update
To: Wellesley College Students
From: Andrew Shennan, Dean of the College Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Associate Dean of the College Adele Wolfson, Associate Dean of the College
Subject: Attending classes during flu season
Date: September 17, 2009
We are writing at this time to clarify our expectation for class attendance during the upcoming flu season. Your health and the health of the entire community are foremost in our minds. If you are experiencing flu-like symptoms, you should call the Health Services to report your illness, stay in your room, and not attend classes. Please also contact your class dean so that your faculty members may be informed that you will miss class due to illness. You should not return to class until you are symptom free and have not had a temperature above 100 degrees F or 38 degrees C for at least 24 hours, without the aid of any fever-reducing medications, and have been cleared by health services.
On September 7, 2009, we sent a letter to alert faculty to the possibility of unusual demands for make-up classes and assignments during flu season this year. We are certain that your professors are willing to help you make up assignments and work that you may have missed due to flu-related absences from class.
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For Health Alert of 9/16/09, click here.
For Health Alert of 8/31/09, click here.
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• Wash your hands often with soap and water or with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer