Student Attendance Policy

Yavapai College offers courses in a variety of delivery formats. Students are expected to attend classes and/or actively participate in all credit courses regardless of the delivery method.

All course syllabi will state attendance and class participation requirements. Syllabi will also define any consequences for not adhering to attendance and/or participation requirements.

The course calendar must identify assignments that require student participation in class activities or due dates for course assignments.

Excused Absences

Instructors have discretion to excuse absences for:

• illness,
• optional activities related to other classes,
• or personal emergencies.

Absences due to a student representing the college in some official capacity, such as participating in a required field trip for another class, will be excused, upon presentation by the student, of verifying evidence.

Lateness

Instructors have discretion to establish class policies specifying that a given number of unexcused tardies will equate to one unexcused absence.