Morgan Community College

Field Trips

CP 9-17

Policy
  1. Field Trips are visits by a class or classes, or part of class, under the supervision of the instructor, to some off-campus location in order to better instruct the students in the course by virtue of activity at the location in question.
  2. While the value of field trips as a learning device in certain study areas is not doubted, it should be remembered that they often cause students to be absent from class sessions of the other courses. Consideration of the reluctance of fellow instructors to have their classes so disorganized should cause each instructor to keep to a minimum field trips which cause students to be absent from other classes.

Procedure
  1. The approval of the appropriate Dean is necessary for all field trips requiring students to be absent from classes and/or requiring expenditures of college funds. Such approval must be secured at least two weeks prior to the trip.
  2. Trips requiring more than one day's absence from classes in any week must have the approval of the appropriate Dean at least four weeks prior to the trip.
  3. Requests for approval of trips should be submitted by completing a Field Trip Approval Request form and should include:
  1.  The purpose of the trip
  2.  The itinerary of the trip
  3.  A list of students to be included in the trip
  4.  Estimated costs
  5.  Agency paying the cost
  1. Students going on such trips are responsible for determining with their other instructors what class work and assignments are involved in their absences, and for completing them.
  2. Instructors are responsible for making relevant assignments to students who will be absent on approved trips, and for assistance in completion of the assignments.
  3. The overall consideration should be: instructors scheduling only those field trips which they consider are an indispensable part of the course content, and keeping their number to a minimum; and instructors of classes from which students will be absent on a field trip being cooperative as possible in assisting students to work around class sessions they miss.

 

 

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