Availability will be opening for all OAs from April 8, 2020 – April 13, 2020 @9:00AM for the May month.
Please make sure to put in your availability your finals for May. We will only be allowing swaps for finals, not drops, so it is important to make sure your May availability reflect them.
Please make sure you update your availability during this period, failure to do so can result in a meeting with the Community Desk Specialist.
Availability will be opening for all OAs from March 6, 2020 @9:00AM – March 9, 2020 @9:00AM.
Please make sure you update your availability during this period, failure to do so can result in a meeting with the Community Desk Specialist.
At this time, the FDT is still working on the schedule for March for all communities. As part of this, we are auditing all students overnight availability and we will be giving them some extra time to update it so they meet the minimum 3 nights availability.
Due to this, we will be publishing the schedule a little later than anticipated. We hope to have the schedule for March published February 19, 2020.
We are working on creating the March schedule by Friday, February 14, 2020. In order to do this, we will be re-opening availability. You will be able to update your availability from Friday, February 7, 2020-Monday, February 10, 2020 at 9:00am.
As a reminder, please put in your class schedule for the whole semester, you should only be updating your availability with things outside your class schedule.
If class and RA duty schedules are not in your availability by this time, your drop/swap requests won’t be processed/approved until you meet with the Community Desk Specialist.
If you have any questions about what needs to be in your availability, please refer to the Spring 2020 Training Presentation or the What needs to be in your availability cheat sheet.
We have noticed a very high demand of drop/swap request. Since training 206 requests have been submitted. Of those 194, 92 were accepted, 13 are pending, 67 were cancelled, 23 were declined by the FDT, 5 expired, and 6 were declined by all recipients.
We have created a drop/swap and unpaid time off request cheat sheet (that can also be found in the OA shared drive) for you to reference on what category your request may fall into (this is not all inclusive, just what we have seen):
| Reason | Drop | Swap | Unpaid Time Off Request | Contact FDT |
| Family Emergency | x | |||
| Family Function (birthdays, weddings, dinners, etc) | x | |||
| Going away to see family in excess of 24 hours* | x | |||
| Going out of town in excess of 24 hours* | x | |||
| Having excess of 4 hours in a row | x | |||
| I have class at this time | x** | x | ||
| Internships or outside of SJSU employment | x | |||
| Medical appointment (not sick time) | x | |||
| RA Duty/Meetings | x | |||
| School related trip (with proof from professor)* | x** | x | ||
| SJSU Sports Practice/Game (unexpected changes contact FDT) | x | |||
| SJSU Student group activities | x | |||
| Studying for Midterm in excess of 24 hours | x |
Requests that do not have a reason will be automatically denied.
*In excess of 24 hours means when you will be unavailable for the 3 full nights requirement.
**Requires proof from professor to drop a shift from school related activities (please email to FDT)