Faculty Responsibilities
1. Faculty will regularly record attendance for each class session in the faculty portal.
2. Faculty will record an absence as excused or unexcused in the faculty portal.
a. Excused absences are documented: University, Medical, Family.
b. Faculty will allow students to make up missed work, or have an equivalent opportunity, from an excused absence.*
c. Consequences of missed class work due to a student’s unexcused absence is at the discretion of the faculty.
3. Faculty will consult with the OAA and, if necessary, another appropriate University office if a student’s University excused absences impede the student’s progress or a student needs to withdraw or be dropped from a course.
4. Faculty should consider acknowledgment from the OAA of a student’s absence due to a medical or family emergency as excused.
5. Faculty will issue an XF warning when the allotted number of unexcused absences has been used.
6. Faculty will notify the Center for Student Success (CSS) when a student fails to show within the first week of classes.
7. Faculty will notify Academic Records directly if a student has missed an entire 14-calendar day period at any point in the semester.
8. Faculty should forward any requests to enter a class after the first week of classes has ended to the OAA. The Schedule Change Request form should not be used.
*Some departments may have specific consequences or deadlines for this missed work to be completed.
Graduate School Policy
Instructors will determine if an absence may be excused. When a student reaches that number of absences considered by the instructor to be excessive, the instructor will so advise the student and file an unsatisfactory progress report with the Program Dean. Any student who misses 25% or more of the regularly scheduled class meetings may receive a grade of F in the course. Additional attendance policies for each course, as defined by the instructor in the course syllabus, constitute a part of the University’s attendance policy. Student appeals should be addressed in writing to the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies.