The spring includes several important religious holidays. Our inclusive environment allows for religious expression. Faculty are expected to work with students to reasonably accommodate their religious obligations and observances.
Examples of religious accommodations can include, but are not limited to, rescheduling an exam or presentation, or flexibility in due dates or research responsibilities. If concerns arise about a requested accommodation, faculty members should consult their department head for assistance.
An individual's request for time off from school activities to accommodate religious needs, observances, and practices is reasonable unless university operations would suffer unduly by granting the individual's request.
For information on religious holidays, visit the Interfaith Calendar website (https://u.osu.edu/interfaith/interfaith-religious-holiday-calendar/). Instructors are expected to provide information about how absences will be managed to students during the first week of classes (both verbally and within the syllabus). It is the student's responsibility to present, at the earliest possible date, a request for the required absence to each instructor whose class is to be missed. Students who know they will require a religious accommodation, but who may not know the date of the religious observance, should communicate with their instructors about this possible need at the start of the semester.
For questions or to report discrimination or harassment based on religion, individuals should contact the Office of Institutional Equity at equity@osu.edu.
