Illness, crisis, and hardship can strike at any time.
As an academic leader, you'll want to know where to direct people for support and what your own (and your faculty's) options are for being flexible with students and employees.
You can read more in the following subsections. Here are two important guiding principles:
- Students and employees should never be pressed to reveal sensitive personal or medical details.
- Work the process. Making unoffical, off-the-record arrangements is never a good idea.