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Sep 19, 2024
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2023-2024 Faculty Handbook
2. CLASS ATTENDANCE
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(revised 03/04/2010)
Faculty members should make a point of being prompt in their arrival for lectures and discussion periods and hold the students to the same promptness in class attendance. If it is necessary for an instructor to cancel or be absent from a class, the department head and the dean for academic affiars must be advised of this fact.
(revised 03/04/2010)
Students are expected to be present at regularly scheduled meetings of classes and laboratories. The privilege of being excused from class or making up work missed because of absence from the class is granted wholly at the discretion of the instructor. The instructor has the obligation of explaining to his/her class at the first meeting of the group his/her particular requirement as far as class attendance is concerned. Instructors report to the office of the registrar the names of students who have excessive absences for no apparent reason. That office likewise will report to the faculty appropriate information available concerning student absences.
The Simpson faculty believe that learning happens outside of the classroom as well as in class. The faculty has agreed that students shall not be penalized for participation in college-sanctioned events which necessitate absence from classes, so long as the student informs the faculty member prior to the event and completes work equivalent to what was missed in class. Scheduled college-sanctioned events that require class absences, shall be listed on the portal under Student Excused Absences one week in advance, if possible, and approved by the academic dean. Those scheduling college-sanctioned events are responsible for posting the event and shall seek to minimize the disruption of classes, and encourage students to avoid necessary absences.
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