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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">😉</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> One role at Pierce, so they ultimately go to the VP of Learning & Student Success.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">wsssc <wsssc-bounces@lists.ctc.edu> on behalf of WSSSC <wsssc@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Christina Castorena <christina.castorena@email.edcc.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 3:55 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Cruse, Michele" <MCruse@clark.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>WSSSC <wsssc@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Wsssc] Student Absence for Reasons of Faith or Conscience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"tahoma",sans-serif">At Edmonds College, it's the VPSS. The student submits a request for leave, I approve/deny. If the request is approved, I send the student an email/letter that they give to their faculty. The
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:49 PM Cruse, Michele via wsssc <<a href="mailto:wsssc@lists.ctc.edu">wsssc@lists.ctc.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We are in the process of updating our process/protocols re: the Student Absence for Reasons of Faith or Conscience. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The question is: Does the VPSA or the VPI facilitate and approve the request at your institution? </span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Postsecondary educational institutions must develop policies to accommodate student absences to allow students to take holidays for reasons of faith or conscience or for organized activities conducted
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