INDEX

Introduction
Table of Contents

Policies in Process

Preliminaries

Policies

1. Legal Authority and Governance

2. University-wide

3. Presidential Area

4. Academic Affairs

5. Business Affairs

6. Student Life

7. University Advancement

8. Administrative Services

Class Meetings

Policy Statement

Classes should begin and end on time.  Time and place of classes may be changed when there is sufficient reason and when the Registrar and appropriate academic dean are informed of the change.  If a faculty member cannot meet his or her classes, s/he should notify both the office of the head of the department and the appropriate academic dean.
                       
Procedure to be followed by students when a faculty member is late for class. 
The waiting period for a class when the faculty member is late is ten minutes.  At that time, a roll is to be signed by each member of the class and submitted to the appropriate academic dean.  The class is then free to leave.  The material that was to have been covered in that particular period is to be made available to the students.

Class Attendance
The University recognizes that the academic learning experience is not limited to the formal classroom setting.  Other learning experiences extend and enhance, rather than replace, the collective study effort of the group.  This does not suggest, however, that the classroom effort should diminish in importance.  Therefore, the general University policy is that all students are encouraged to attend class regularly, and further, in recognition of the wide diversity of styles of teaching, modes of learning, and educational goals, that each individual professor should establish course attendance and participation requirements in accord with the intent of this policy and the specific educational objectives of each course.  These requirements must be clearly specified and communicated to the students in the course outline.  Abuses of this attendance policy will be referred to the appropriate academic dean for final judgment.

Related Policies and Committees

Policy: Undergraduate Excused Absences for University Events

History of Policy

06/04/04 – Reaffirmed by Vice President for Academic Affairs