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For the official current versions for the following topics, please see the Clemson University Undergraduate Announcements at http://www.registrar.clemson.edu/publicat/catalog/2005/aca_regs.html.
The following is the official Clemson University statement on Academic Integrity.
As members of the Clemson University community, we have inherited Thomas Green Clemson's vision of this institution as a 'high seminary of learning.' Fundamental to this vision is a mutual commitment to truthfulness, honor, and responsibility, without which we cannot earn the trust and respect of others. Furthermore, we recognize that academic dishonesty detracts from the value of a Clemson degree. Therefore, we shall not tolerate lying, cheating, or stealing in any form.
College work proceeds at such a pace that regular attendance is necessary for each student to obtain maximum benefits for instruction. Regular and punctual attendance at all class and laboratory sessions is a student obligation, and each student is responsible for all the work, including tests and written work, in all class and laboratory sessions. No right or privilege exists that permits a student to be absent from any given number of class or laboratory sessions except as stated in the syllabus for each course. At the same time, it is obvious that students have valid reasons for missing classes, the instructors are expected to be reasonable in the demands they place on students.
In this regard, instructors must inform the students in the syllabus required in every class what constitutes excessive absences and the penalty, if any, for such absences. Faculty who impose penalties for excessive absences must keep accurate attendance records.
Some students are on scholarship and/or grants-in-aid overseen by the University Scholarships and Awards Committee. The acceptance of such scholarships and/or grants-in-aid may require participation in events both on and off campus. Additionally, students occasionally are required to miss class because of participation in co-curricular activities, such as class trips, that the faculty members note on their syllabi. The student must discuss these activities with the faculty members whose classes will be missed well in advance of their occurrences. The documentable absences are necessary, and the instructor will make arrangements for those students to make-up graded work that takes place during those necessary absences. The time, location, and nature of the make-up work will be at the discretion of the instructor. If required, documentation will be provided to instructors by students.
Instructors are expected to set policies that are reasonable in working with those students personal documentable absences that are truly beyond the student's control. After reviewing the reason given for the absence, the instructor at his/her discretion may allow the student to make up the graded work missed.
All other aspects of class attendance are within the discretion of the instructor, department, or college responsible for the course. If a student feels unfairly treated in any attendance-related situation, the student has the right of appeal to the Academic Grievance Committee.
All students are required to attend the first scheduled day of classes and labs. Students who cannot attend the first class are responsible for contacting the instructor to indicate their intent to remain in that class. If a student does not attend the first class meeting or make contact with the instructor by the second meeting or the last day to add, whichever comes first, the instructor has the option of dropping that student from the roll.
Once, near mid-term, but no later than five days before the last day students can drop courses without receiving final grades, instructors of every undergraduate course shall make available for each student (a) that student's numerical course grade or (b) that student's letter ranking to date in that course (A—F or P/F). More frequent feedback is strongly encouraged.
Both student and instructor are to recognize that this feedback reflects the student's performance up to that point in time, and as such, that student's final course grade may change based upon subsequent coursework performance(s).
The policy includes all undergraduate courses and applies to all terms, including Maymester and summer sessions.
Final examinations must be given or due on the dates and at the times designated in the final examination schedule, except in laboratory and one-credit-hour courses where the final exam will be given at the last class meeting.
The United States Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act prohibits the public distribution of grades or graded work. This is commonly understood to include posting grades by student names, initials, or student social security number. It is also understood to include placing of graded material in a public place where students go through the material to find their own graded work.
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