SGU CLASS ATTENDANCE POLICY

APPROVED BY SGU FACULTY ON 5/16/06

APPROVED BY ABBOT LAWRENCE ON 7/6/06

Students are expected to attend every class session of the courses in which they are enrolled.  Instructors are required to keep records of student attendance.

Each absence impacts a student’s grade, either directly or indirectly.  Instructors may choose not to distinguish between “excused” and “unexcused” absences; if an instructor elects to make such a distinction, the instructor alone determines whether or not an absence will be excused.

Absence from more than 20% of the scheduled class sessions, whether excused or unexcused, is considered excessive.  The instructor ordinarily will lower the final course grade one letter for each absence beyond this threshold or, after issuing a warning through the registrar’s office, drop the student from the course.

Arriving late for a class or leaving early from a class may be counted as an absence or a partial absence (in accord with the instructor’s attendance and tardiness policy as published on the course syllabus).