FGCU has a general guideline for attendance policies. If you’re registered for classes, you’re expected to attend them. When students struggle to balance mental health, physical health or disabilities, don’t the rules seem extreme?
Life gets in the way for everyone. There could be an infinite number of reasons why a student doesn’t show up to class throughout a semester. Punishing students by dropping their grade to possible failure, even if they’ve been doing well, is not reasonable.
Professors are permitted to add their own policies for every class, including attendance. For example, they can limit students to three absences or count them for participation and in-class assignments. Students who miss a few classes may face automatic failure, even if they have a 90% in the class. Professors have now begun to focus on participation grades rather than attendance, but the goal is that students must show up for that grade itself…