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Dropping a course due to chronic absenteeism

If a student misses more than 18 periods of a class face to face, then will need to be dropped from the class to meet Carnegie Unit expectations.  Here are calculations: 

To earn a Carnegie Unit in a semester, students need to complete 3,600 minutes of instruction per course.

To avoid being classified as chronically absent, students must be present for at least 80% of those instructional minutes. That means students must attend a minimum of 2,880 minutes in each class.

At SCC, our semester includes approximately 3,652 instructional minutes per class (based on 44-minute periods).

So, to calculate how many minutes a student can miss and still meet the 80% attendance threshold:

• 3,652 total minutes – 2,880 required minutes = 772 minutes that can be missed.

• 772 minutes ÷ 44-minute periods = about 18 class periods maximum that can be missed before falling below 80% attendance. 

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