Attendance & Absences

Students are expected to attend all face-to-face meetings of their courses. Students are expected to negotiate with their employers for time off from work to accommodate class attendance. Students will not be penalized for absence during the semester due to unavoidable or legitimate circumstances. Such circumstances include student illness or hospitalization, cancellation of flights or road closures due to inclement weather, extreme family emergencies, subpoenas, jury duty, military service, bereavement, and religious observances. Such circumstances do not include employment responsibilities, voting in local, state, or national elections, family vacations, attending or presenting at conferences, or avoidable child care problems. Instructors must be notified at the beginning of the term about such planned absences and arrangements made to make up required work. Instructors are not required to accommodate makeup of laboratory experiences or examinations to suit students’ personal convenience or to accommodate situations such as vacations. At the instructor’s discretion, points may be allotted for participation or in-class presentations during face-to-face class meetings and may be denied to students who miss class meetings for reasons other than those listed as legitimate circumstances.

School of Nursing instructors determine and inform students of their own policies and procedures regarding absence from class, laboratory, and examinations. Make-up work is determined at the sole discretion of the instructors, and they are not obligated to afford or arrange practicum make-up times to any student due to student absence unless it is due to one of the circumstances noted above.