Attendance Policy

Owner	Academic Affairs
Contact	[email protected]
Document Type	Policy
Issue Date	February 12, 2002
Last Review	May 20, 2023
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Contents

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1. Purpose Statement
2. Policy
3. Audience
4. History

A. Purpose Statement

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The purpose of this policy is to establish when attendance policies are required and how they are
communicated to students.

B. Policy

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Attendance policies must be clearly stated in writing in a designated area/the syllabus.

• All 0-level and 100-level courses must have attendance policies.
• It is strongly recommended that all other courses have attendance policies.

Attendance policies should be formulated by individual instructors if there are no departmental or college attendance policies. Attendance Policies should be appropriate for the instructional strategies and learning outcomes of a course and allow for some degree of student absence under reasonable circumstances (e.g. death in the family or family emergency, participation in university-approved events, and serious illness).

C. Audience

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The intended audience for this policy are students and faculty.

D. History

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This policy supersedes policy 02:1 which was created on 2/12/2002. The original attendance policy was developed because of the recommendations of the Admissions Standards Review Committee (March 26, 2001), the Academic Senate (April 3, 2001), and the Recruitment and Retention Policy Committee (June 15, 2001). The recommendations were also approved by the FSU Board of Trustees on May 4, 2001.