Attendance Policies

All students must report to classes during the first week of classes. Students will lose their place in some classes if they do not attend the first class meeting. (See, for example, the “Notes” for biology and chemistry in the Schedule of Classes.)

The instructor has the right to set attendance requirements for the course, to keep attendance records, and to consider attendance in the calculation of final grades. Such attendance policies will be listed in the course syllabus. Students may not use absence from class as an excuse for not fulfilling all course requirements.

Students who have earned fewer than 15 credits of college-level work are limited in the number of cuts they may take in a course without risking a lower grade, as follows: