ACADEMIC POLICY COMMITTEE NEW PROPOSAL

ACADEMIC UNIT: All Units ___

DATE PREPARED: 11/22/16___

PRIMARY AUTHOR(S): APC___

1. DESCRIPTION OF CHANGE:

To provide a streamlined university attendance policy that offers basic guidelines but also allows instructors room to implement specific requirements as they see fit.

2. STARTING WITH: (Excluding exceptional circumstances proposals will take effect Fall of the following year).

Fall, X____ Spring, _____Summer, 2017____ Year

3. CURRENT POLICY: (Please See Current Catalogue, Faculty Handbook...)

In the 2016-2017 University Catalogue, the attendance policy begins on page 459:

• XIX.XIX. Class Attendance – Class attendance is mandatory for all enrolled students. Class attendance is linked to a variety of daily classroom assignments, and these assignments require students' preparation and participation in order for students to be successful. A record of the students' attendance is required by all instructors beginning on the first day the class meets. Faculty are required to take attendance until the final examination date. Students absent from class due to official university business, or other reasons considered excusable, are responsible for making up and submitting work to their instructors within seven (7) business days of the absence.

Excused absences, university-sponsored and personal, include the following: documented required military service; documented university service on campus or off-campus representation of the University; documented research, presentation, or field trip; documented interview for professional/ academic advancement, and documented jury duty.

Personal excused absences include the following: documented illness from a doctor or practicing medical professional in the area of the student's illness, who attended to the student; documented serious illness or death of an immediate family member (mother, father, spouse, child, sibling, grandparent, or (former) legal guardian, and documented court appearance.

Absence(s) planned from class(es) because of university-sponsored activities must be reported to the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs two (2) weeks prior to the date of the absence. The Vice President for Student Affairs will inform faculty members BEFORE the student's absence from class(es) in