4.13.2.3 : Other Notes

1.    Students cannot excuse each other for missing class, even if it is for an official University activity. All excused absences must come from a professor, coach, or other University employee.

2.    Class absences due to organization or team meetings or practices will not be excused.

3.    Where professors allow a specific number of class absences before the student is penalized, each absence excused by the criteria listed above should diminish the number of penalty-free absences by one.

4.    However, should the total number of excused absences exceed the number of penalty-free absences given by the professor, the student should not be penalized, but should be allowed to make up any work that he/she might have accomplished if not absent.

5.    Any student who knows from the beginning of the semester that he/she will be absent from class for athletic competitions, field trips, or other performances will reserve his/her penalty-free absences for those endeavors.

6.    Instructors may reserve a small number of special class sessions or activities for which substitute experience or evaluation cannot be made, and for which absence will not be excused, if such experiences are announced by the instructor during the first week of class.