Any student may be dropped from a course or receive a lowered grade for unauthorized absences in excess of those permitted by the instructor. It is each student's responsibility to know and understand the instructor's policies on these matters. It is also the student's responsibility to give the instructor notice one week prior to any anticipated absence for which the student seeks to avoid penalty to contact the instructor within one week after any unanticipated absence.
All students are responsible for material covered during their absence.
However, the instructor must allow each student who is absent for a University-approved reason either the opportunity to make up, or to be excused from work missed, without any reduction in the student's final course grade as a direct result of such absence. Verification of a student's participation shall be issued by the sponsor when authorized by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost. Observance of a major religious holy day. The University shall annually publish a list of those dates it has designated as major religious holy days. Instructors and administrators shall endeavor not to schedule any examination or other graded class event, nor any major University activity, on a major religious holy day.