Attendance

1.12 | Attendance

1.12.A | Class attendance and participation is an individual student responsibility. Students taking traditional face-to-face courses are expected to attend class and to complete all assignments by stated due dates. Students enrolled in distance education courses are expected to regularly engage with institutional materials and complete all assignments by stated due dates. Instructors are expected to provide notice of the dates on which major exams will be given and assignments will be due on the course syllabus, which must be made available by the first-class period. Graduate and professional students are also expected to attend all examinations required by departments or advisory committee as formally scheduled such as, but not limited to, qualifying exams, preliminary exams and final defenses. Violation of this attendance policy is subject to disciplinary action throught the Student Conduct process.

1. Students who miss more than three (3) consecutive days of course content due to extenuating circumstances, such as illness or emergency, should contact the Office of Student Affairs for assistance. Upon receipt of the documentation detailing the illness or emergency, Student Affairs will contact each instructor indicated by the student's submission, in writing, explaining the nature of the absence and requesting consideration making up missed work without penalty.
2. Notification of Absences: Students who miss classes for reasons of official university business will be given the opportunity to make up for the missed work without penalty. However, students and/or the sponsor/coach of the official university activity must inform individual instructors prior to absence.

1.12.B | Documents may be sent to the Office of Student Affairs via www.wtamu.edu/absence, studentaffairs@wtamu.edu, fax to (806) 651-2926, call (806) 651-2050, or dropped off in the JBK Suite 102.

1.12.C | Individual instructors have the right to set reasonable and clearly explained attendance standards for their classes. If an attendance requirement is adopted because regular active participation is essential to satisfactory mastery of the course content, the requirement should be reasonable and clearly explained in the course syllabus.

1.12.D | If a student wishes to contest the fairness of an instructor's attendance policy, a complaint should be filed in accordance with the Student Grievance procedures.

1.12.E | Students called to active duty should tell instructors and must withdraw from the University by notifying the Office of the Registrar of the intent in person, by email, by mail, or fax.

1.12.F | When an instructor believes that excessive absences have put a student's grade in jeopardy, the instructors should report this information to Advising Services who will contact the student and will attempt to resolve the problem.