Class Attendance
Federal Title IV policy requires students to attend class or make contact with their instructor at least once within a 14-day calendar period. When a student has missed several classes (or one class for a one day a week class) or has failed to make contact or complete a course activity for online courses in a seven-day period, the instructor submits an Early Alert on the student. The student may then be contacted by advisors or the Student Success, Retention, and Placement Coordinator through student email, by phone, and/or regular mail and warned that they must attend class or contact their instructor within 14 calendar days of their last date of attendance/contact to avoid being dropped on the fourteenth day. If the student returns to class or makes contact prior to the 14th day, they may remain enrolled.
Exceptions regarding continued enrollment may be made at the discretion of the instructor as outlined elsewhere in their course syllabus attendance policy. Each instructor may have their own attendance policies. If the student fails to attend class or make contact with the instructor, then the instructor submits a Drop Form on the fourteenth day. The student is then dropped from the course and may not be reinstated unless there are extenuating circumstances.