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9.		(a)		Members of the faculty are not to cancel or dismiss early classes that meet on those days which precede vacation periods.
(b)				Excessive absence from class meetings in the case of any undergraduate shall be reported to the appropriate Class Dean.
(c)				A member of the faculty who is unable to meet a class shall notify the Chair of the department or Director of the program.
(d)				Normally, faculty members should schedule office hours in two different time blocks during the week. It is recommended that, when these hours are posted on the office door, the phrase "and by appointment" be added to increase flexibility and faculty availability to students. The appropriate office, extension number, or secretary for leaving messages should also be posted.
10.		(a)		Members of the faculty who plan to be out of town for more than a few days at any time during the College year, vacation periods included, are requested to leave their addresses with the Secretary to the President.
(b)				Members of the faculty who plan to leave Northampton before Commencement should notify the Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty. They are required to remain in town at least twenty-four hours after their grades have been filed in the Office of the Registrar.

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All teaching faculty are required to file in the Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty a full syllabus of each course they teach, for use by the Committee on Academic Priorities. If important changes in the conduct of the course are made later, a new syllabus should be substituted for the one previously filed.

12.		(a)		Members of the faculty who are granted the assistance of readers are requested to report the name of the reader and the number of students in the course to the Provost and Dean of the Faculty at the beginning of the year or semester. The exact amount of work done by the readers shall be reported.
(b)				Normally readers will attend all lectures in classes in which they read.
13.		(a)		It is not considered advisable for a member of the faculty or staff to receive pay for tutoring a Smith College student in his/her own subject or in any other subject. Exceptions to this rule may be made only with approval of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty on the recommendation of the Chair of a department or Director of a program.
(b)				Outside tutors may be made available to individual students through the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching and Learning.
14.		(a)		As far as is practicable and necessary, all members of a department shall be considered available for teaching introductory and basic courses.
(b)				All members of a department or program will serve as pre-major advisers if they meet the following criteria: The faculty member has taught at Smith for one year. The faculty member is not currently assigned as a pre-major adviser. The faculty member will be present and teaching for at least the first three semesters of the projected advising period.
15.		(a)		Members of the faculty shall take occasion to make clear to their classes at the beginning of the year or the semester their own requirements and expectations in regard to honest work; how far, for instance, students may collaborate in reports, notes, and laboratory procedure, and to what extent they may use outside help including, in the case of foreign language and literature classes, English translation.
(b)				All cases of dishonesty known to instructors shall be reported to the student Chair of the Academic Honor Board.
16.		(a)		No member of the faculty is authorized to order books for the Library except through the Director of Libraries or designate. In order to relieve the Library staff of needless work, members of the faculty are asked not to request the purchase of books that are already in the Library except in the case of multiple copies for class use. Members who are going abroad and expect to have special facilities for purchasing books may make arrangements in advance with the Director of Libraries or designate.
(b)				No department or individual is permitted to anticipate the Library appropriation for the following year.
(c)				Members of the faculty should notify the Director of Libraries or designate of books which they wish to have placed on reserve well in advance.
17.		(a)		Members of the faculty having notices for the press should give them out through the Office of College Relations in order that news of the College may be issued impartially and published as widely as possible.
(b)				Official information and reports of emergencies concerning the College shall be given out only through the Office of College Relations.
(c)				Radio and television broadcasts should be arranged through the Office of College Relations.
(d)				Questionnaires should not be issued without the consent of the President (or designate).

18.		Smoking is prohibited in most spaces of the College. See Appendix F.
19.		In the case of fire drills all persons (faculty, staff, and students) must leave the buildings as in the case of an actual fire. The cooperation of the members of the faculty is requested in observing the Fire Regulations posted in all College buildings. Their assistance is especially asked in enforcing in academic buildings the rules which concern smoking and the rule which states that assemblies shall be limited to the seating capacity of the hall, and in carrying out orders in connection with fire drills.
20.		Those members of the faculty who attend Opening Convocation and Last Chapel are asked to sit on the platform, and to wear cap, gown, and hood. Full academic dress is worn also at the Commencement Exercises and at the Commemoration Exercises on Rally Day. Next