<p>I agree, life happens.</p>
<p>last spring the night before my english final I was t-boned by an elderly woman doing about 45. I had a green arrow, she ran a red light. I was taken to the hospital and had all sorts of images etc taken. When I was hit it was about 9pm, when I left the hospital it was about 6am. fortunately I still made it to the english final @8am and the teacher himself had been in accident before so he was sympathetic. if not for the fact that it was an essay test I know I would have blown my grade in the class, but it was an essay and he graded me more lightly given my circumstances. teachers will help you out if you go talk to them, I’m sure in my case it didn’t hurt that I was still wearing my c-spine and hospital bracelet! lol</p>
<p>sucks that your teacher took an unexpected sabbatical in that manner, I have filed the same appeal at my school to have a “W” removed over an inability to contact a teacher for workexp(when I signed up I didn’t know it wasn’t UC xferrable, woops). They denied removing it the first time. The second time I provided them with logs of my phone calls and logs of my e-mails being rejected by his e-mail address… haven’t heard back yet. Don’t even care about the 60 bucks, just don’t want a W on my record. </p>
<p>good luck, you might try being more persistent at the school office and maybe convincing them to give him a call, doubt they will do it… but it couldn’t hurt.</p>
<p>Yeahbraa, that’s definitely true about life getting in the way. As they say, the best laid plans… Luckily, you seem to have had a good relationship with your instructor, since he was understanding to your situation and agreed to meet with you during the summer session, etc. Like some of the comments above, the professor probably had a family emergency and needed to take a leave of absence (AKA a sabbatical.) </p>
<p>In any event, though some of the ‘Facebook’ and phone # search suggestions might be a tad extreme, I would definitely ‘google’ your professor’s name and see if he has another e-mail address listed. Sometimes, professors teach at more than one institution, so maybe he’ll have a different e-mail address listed on-line that he might be checking. Or, he’ll be affiliated with some kind of a research organization, and will have alternate contact information listed where you can reach him.</p>
<p>If not, I would recommend meeting with the department chair. Explain your situation in detail, including how your professor was going to meet with you in the summer and also how important it is for you to go to UCLA, in addition to explaining how you would honestly like to do well in this professor’s course and get rid of the incomplete. If the chair won’t give you the professor’s e-mail address, maybe you can ask if they would kindly forward your e-mail to him. But I’m hoping the chair will help you more than the department secretary. </p>
<p>If all else fails… go ahead with the appeal anyway! Might as well try something. Have a few strong letters of recommendation (maybe one of your instructors can mention this situation as well), along with a strong appeal letter where you state that though you tried to contact your professor, it was to no avail because of the professor’s personal decision to take a leave of absence without checking e-mail or voice mail. You can also state that you are currently working on resolving this matter. It’s worth a try. At least you can say that you honestly tried your best!</p>
<p>But I would check with the department chair. Even if the instructor you had is on a sabbatical, he is still a professor of the college, and the department chair has to have at least one other means of communicating with him. Whether or not they wish to share this with you is fine, but you can always give them the option of forwarding your inquiry. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>You CC HAS a way of contacting hi. they have both his private address and phone number, and even though they can not give that out to you, they CAN and SHOULD forward the information onto him on your behalf.</p>