Policy Title:  Class Attendance 

Policy Number:  5.8  
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Purpose:

The Eastern Wyoming College Board recognizes that attendance is critical to a student’s successful completion of a course. Students are expected to attend all sessions of each course in which the student is enrolled.

 

Active participation in all scheduled learning activities is essential for the student to satisfactorily achieve the educational objectives of any course. The Board further recognizes that an instructor is authorized to withdraw a student from a course for excessive, unexcused absences that exceeds 20% (twenty percent) of the scheduled sessions for the semester.  It shall be the instructor’s responsibility to enter the withdrawal form to the Student Services Office either:

 

  1. Prior to the last date to withdraw as defined in the academic calendar; or

 

  1. As soon as it is determined that the number of excessive absences exceed 20% (twenty percent) of the scheduled sessions for the semester, or the student has been absent 6 (six) consecutive class hours in the course.

 

Students shall be responsible for all course requirements from the start of the course, not from the time at which the course was added to their schedule. Each instructor shall establish an attendance requirement for each course and publish it in the course syllabus. Instructors shall ensure that the deadlines for adding and dropping courses and write a syllabus statement consistent with the College’s drop/add policy.

 

The Board recognizes its responsibilities to students who are National Guard members or reservists in the U.S. Armed Forces. The Board expects the College to adhere to appropriate national and state statutes, which pertain to the mobilization of these citizen soldiers. The College shall make reasonable efforts to accommodate students so as to minimize the disruption of their education while fulfilling their military obligations.

 

References: Wyo. Stat. § 19-11-120.

 

Original Adoption Date:  7/20/05 

Date(s) Amended:  11/8/05(RF), 3/9/10, 7/14/20, 9/12/23

Date(s) reviewed, no change: