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Juggling the responsibilities of attending college and taking care of a family can be overwhelming.

 

The Eagle Engagement Center team is here to help you navigate college life and resources available to you as a Student Parent here at UNT. Explore our main page here and additional tools on the left hand navigation designed with Student Parents in mind. 

 

 

 

 

Pregnant & Parent Students Accommodations

The US Department of Education and Office for Civil Rights released new Title IX requirements regarding pregnant and parenting students in June 2013. Those students wishing to seek accommodations for Pregnancy and Parenting please submit the form linked with appropriate documentation. The Dean of Students office also offers a list of Pregnancy and Parenting Resources.

The requirements and suggestions include:

  • Schools must excuse student's absences because of pregnancy or childbirth for as long as the student's doctor deems the absences medically necessary.
  • Absence policies in classes must accommodate pregnancy or childbirth-related absences and allow for make-up work. “A teacher may not refuse to allow a student to submit work after a deadline that she missed because of absences due to pregnancy or childbirth. Additionally, if a teacher's grading is based in part on class attendance or participation, the student should be allowed to earn the credits she missed so that she can be reinstated to the status she had before the leave.”
  • “A school may offer the student alternatives to making up missed work, such as retaking a semester, taking part in an online course credit recovery program, or allowing the student additional time in a program to continue at the same pace and finish at a later date, especially after longer periods of leave. The student should be allowed to choose how to make up the work.”

For any questions about assistance, please reach out to the UNT Dean of Students Office by phone at 940-565-2648, emailing their office at deanofstudents@unt.edu, or stoppng by their office located in University Union Room 409 (4th Floor). 

 

For any assistance or questions, please reach out to our EEC Team at nontrads@unt.edu or calling us 940-565-3424.