ACADEMIC REGULATIONS AND POLICIES

[From PMU Academic Catalog]

Attendance

Attendance and participation in all class, studio, workshop, and laboratory sessions are essential to the process of education at PMU. Students benefit from the lectures and discussions with their instructors and fellow students. Lateness or absence hinders progress for the individual and the class and affects the student’s grade.

A regular student should attend all classes and laboratory sessions. A student may be discontinued from a course and denied entrance to the final examination if his or her attendance is less than 85% of classes and lab sessions assigned to each course during the semester. A student who is denied entrance to an examination due to excessive absences will be considered as having failed that course.

University guidelines for lateness and attendance are as follows:

• The specific application of the attendance guidelines is at the instructor’s discretion. In general, however, the following guidelines apply:
• In the event a student misses 15% of the sessions in a class for any reason, the instructor may initiate withdrawal of the student from the course. If approved by the dean of the student’s major, the withdrawal is implemented.