DDS Course Policies

Class Attendance

Regular class attendance is a student obligation, and a student is responsible for all the work, including tests and written work, of all class meetings. No right or privilege exists that permits a student to be absent from any given number of class sessions. Excessive absenteeism, as determined by the course director, could have an adverse effect on a student's grade. For each course in which attendance may affect the student's grade, the course director will describe, in writing, his or her class attendance policies at the beginning of the course. The student will report absences to the Office of Academic Affairs so that course directors and department chairs can be notified.

Pursuant to this policy, a faculty member wishing to require class attendance must have a systematic method of monitoring student attendance and a stated process for factoring excessive absences into the student's grade or any recommended remedial activity. Each course director requiring attendance must have a method for monitoring attendance and a process for factoring excessive absence into a student's grade. The attendance requirement and any mechanism for calculating the grade must be given to students in writing at the beginning of the course.

Last modified: 09/11/2002 at 04:49:56