Class Attendance

Class Attendance

Regular and punctual class attendance is expected of all students. It shall be the student’s responsibility to inform the instructor(s) of any anticipated or unavoidable absences and to make up for the work that is missed as a result of absences. There are no excused absences. According to the rules of
the CHED every student is required to attend no less than 80% of all class periods in a given subject to earn the corresponding units. Twenty percent of the periods are deemed more than sufficient to take care of illness, death in the family and all other such emergencies. Any student who accumulates more than the maximum number of absences tolerated in a given subject is disqualified from earning any unit of it, and shall be dropped automatically from the class roll with the final mark of “dropped” if he was passing at the time of the last tolerated absence, or with “failure” if he was failing.

The maximum number of accumulated absent hours that can be allowed per semester are the following:
In 5 unit subjects ………………………………… 15 class hours
In 4 unit subjects ………………………………… 12 class hours
In 3 unit subjects ………………………………… 9 class hours
In 2 unit subjects ………………………………… 6 class hours
In 1 unit subject ………………………………….. 3 class hours

A student is allowed to have three (3) absences only during summer; otherwise, he is dropped if he incurs more than the tolerated number of absences.

For a variety of reasons, some professors, are at times unavoidably late for their classes. In the case of 60 minute classes, students should wait for 15 minutes for their professors in the classroom. In 90 minute classes, students should wait for 20 minutes. When a professor arrives late, but within the above time limit, he will mark absent any student who has left his classroom before the required waiting time has elapsed. On the other hand, professors who do not arrive to class within 15 to 20 minutes, as the case may be, are themselves considered absent and cannot impose on their students to wait for them or mark them absent if they leave.