Attendance Policy

CLASS ATTENDANCE

The classroom experience involving interaction with instructors and students is a vital component of the learning process and college experience. Therefore, students are expected to attend all scheduled classes and meetings. Each instructor maintains a policy of class attendance.

Students must attend classes and adhere to the instructor’s course attendance policy. Students are responsible for meeting all academic requirements of a course and following the attendance policy announced by individual instructors. This policy will be announced during the first class meeting and will be explicitly stated in the course syllabus.

The College supports the following attendance guidelines:

• The instructor may assess a penalty to a student’s grade for any absence.
• The instructor may count excessive tardiness or early departures as absences.
• If the student misses more than 20% of class meetings, absence may be considered excessive by the instructor and may result in a student either receiving an “F” or being requested to withdraw (W) from the course by the instructor, which may in turn affect Financial Aid. Students who register for a course and do not attend or stop attending, must officially drop or withdraw from the course within the announced deadlines, or they will receive an “F”.

Absence does not excuse the student from responsibility for class work or assignments missed. Instructors, at their own discretion, may establish procedures to allow students who have been absent for valid reasons to make up missed class work.

Students who require a lengthy absence from school due to illness, family emergencies, or other situations should contact each of their instructors and the Vice President for Academic Affairs prior to making a decision concerning their NCCC education.

Disputes arising from this policy shall be worked out between the student and the instructor.

ABSENCE DUE TO RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

No student will be expelled from or be refused admission because of his or her religious beliefs. Student who are unable, due to their religious beliefs, to attend classes on a particular day or days will, because of such absence on the particular day or days, be excused from any examination or any study or work requirements. Students must inform instructors in advance and make alternative arrangements for meeting course requirements.