Regular and punctual attendance in-person is required in all courses, and faculty members may adopt more specific attendance policies. Because attendance is required, registration for courses that meet at the same time or overlapping times is not permitted.
Please do not come to school if you are sick and potentially contagious with any illness.
If you must miss class for a health or other personal reason, please notify your instructor and arrange to get notes for the class from a fellow student. You may also contact your instructor to request access to any available recordings or permission to have a classmate record the class meeting for you. For an absence of more than two class meetings, please be prepared to provide the SAO appropriate documentation, such as a note from a medical professional.
Please note: instructors generally are not required to record class and may elect not to permit class recordings by students or may elect to permit them only under certain circumstances. Please review the Honor Code and Recording of Classes for more information.
If you need to request the rescheduling of an exam for a health or other personal reason, please contact the Student Affairs Office, not your instructor.
Religious Observance
A student is excused from attending classes or other required activities, including examinations, for the observance of a religious holy day, including travel for that purpose. A student whose absence is excused for this reason will be allowed to make up missed work, and shall be allowed to take an examination or complete an assignment from which the student is excused within a reasonable time.
If you must miss class for a religious observance, please notify your instructor and arrange to get notes for the class from a fellow student. You may also contact your instructor to request permission to have a classmate record the class meeting for you.
Please note: instructors generally are not required to record class and may elect not to permit class recordings by students or may elect to permit them only under certain circumstances. Please review the Honor Code and Recording of Classes for more information.
If you need to have an exam rescheduled for religious observance, please contact the Student Affairs Office, not your instructor.
Excessive Absences
Excessive absences (whether excused or not), failure to participate in classroom work, or improper conduct in the classroom may result, at the discretion of the instructor, in consequences that include: a reduced letter grade, dropping the student from the course (with the resulting grade of “Q”), assignment of a failing grade for the course, or other appropriate sanctions.
If a student stops attending class at any time in the term or summer session, but fails to drop the course officially, a grade of “F” is recorded for the course. If a student misses the final exam without permission of the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, a grade of “F” is recorded for the course.
The “Q” grade appears on the transcript, but is not included in the student’s GPA. When an “F” grade is recorded, the course is counted as a course taken and failed for the purposes of minimum performance standards and financial aid, and 1.30 grade points are used in calculating the student’s overall average.