STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
(Excerpts from the 1996-97 Bulletin) 

Student Attendance

Regular attendance at all classes, laboratories, and other academic appointments is required of each student. Faculty members are expected to keep regular attendance records. The syllabus notifies students of the attendance requirement within the understandings given below.

Class Absences

Whenever the number of absences exceeds 20% of the total course appointments, the teacher may give a failing grade. Being absent from campus is not an excuse for not completing the requirements of the course. Absences incurred due to late registration, suspension, and early/late vacation leaves are not considered as excused, and the work missed may not be made up except to the extent the teacher allows. Three tardinesses are the equivalent of an absence.

Excused Absences

Excuses for absences due to illness are granted by the individual teacher who shall rquire verification of illness. Residence-hall students are required to see the nurse on the first day of any illness which interferes with class attendance. Non-residence hall students are required to show written verification of illness obtained from their own physician. Excuses for absences not due to illness are issued directly from the dean's office. Excused absences do not remove the responsibility of the student to complete all requirements of a course. Work is made up at the discretion of the teacher.

Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty includes (but is not limited to) such acts as
  1. falsifiction of official documents;
  2. plagiarism (copying others published work);
  3. presenting assignments that are not based on the student's own work;
  4. using materials during a quiz or examination besides those specifically allowed by the teacher;
  5. stealing, accepting, or studying from stolen quizzes or examination materials;
  6. working or copying from the paper of another student during a formal or take-home examination or quiz.
Students who collaborate in dishonest acts are also held responsible for such actions. Academic dishonesty is a serious office. It is punishable by warning, receipt or a lower or failing grade, suspension or dismissal from the class, expulsion from the University, degree annulment, or, if official documents have been falsified, non-admission or annulment of admission.