Fisk University students are expected to maintain regular and successive attendance in all the lecture, laboratory, 以及他们在一个学期内注册和注册的研讨会课程. 课堂出勤率是学生智力发展的重要组成部分, success, retention and timely graduation . 每门课程的具体出勤政策见课程大纲, 在学期的第一周，每堂课上分发的是什么. It is, therefore, the responsibility of each student to know the attendance policy of each teacher in whose class she/he is enrolled. Failure to comply with the stated attendance policy will undoubtedly jeopardize the grade in the course.
In addition, Title IV federal guidelines mandate that institutions receiving federal aid regularly verify student class attendance to ensure that all awarded federal aid monies are used for educational purposes.
Policy Statement
学校的政策严格要求学生上课出勤. In each course, students who miss more than ten percent (10%) of the scheduled class meetings (including labs) due to unexcused absences will be in danger of failing the course. For a class that meets three times per week, the number of unexcused absences is five class sessions; for a class that meets twice a week, three class sessions; and for a class that meets once per week, two class sessions. More strenuous requirements can be applicable, as stated by individual instructors, in their respective course syllabi. 理解每位老师的要求是学生的责任. The University administration, consistent with this policy, does not generally issue excuses from class.
Definition of Terms
(1) Attendance is defined in this policy statement as the physical presence (participation for distance education courses) of the student in the classroom for the entire scheduled class time. Tardiness can be considered an unexcused absence. (2)无理由缺勤是指所有未经注册医生/护士批准的缺勤, the instructor in charge of the course, and/or the provost or his/her designee.
Applicability
菲斯克考勤政策适用于所有注册学生. Individual faculty members can choose to make the policy more rigorous but in no case should they be more lenient than the University policy stated above. 偶尔，学生可能会因为紧急情况(健康、事故等)而缺课.)或其他无法控制的迫不得已情况. Such students must justify, with appropriate documentation, 返校后48小时内不得有计划外缺勤. In addition, there are occasions when students may be absent from campus in connection with sanctioned University activities such as athletic competitions, academic competitions, concerts or conference presentations. In such cases, students are required to notify their faculty instructor prior to the scheduled class that they will miss and make up for work missed. In all cases, the Provost may, at his/her discretion, 给教员发一份备忘录，允许学生补课. In such cases, instructors can assign reasonable and relevant compensatory work for excused absences at a time mutually convenient to both the student and the instructor. Such memoranda however, do not constitute excuses from class and students remain bound at all time by the absolute maximum of ten percent (10%) absence rate in any particular class.
Exception
Exceptions to the ten percent (10%) absence rate policy may only be made by the Provost in consultation with the course instructor. Exceptions may only be considered when the student is performing at a high level of competence in the course, and when the reasons for excessive absences (e.g., hospitalization, family emergency, etc.) are such that it would clearly not have been possible for the student to attend the required ninety percent (90%) of class meetings.