 | The University of Virginia record February, 1909 |  |
RESIDENCE, ATTENDANCE AND GRADE.
The Academic Year extends from the morning of the Thursday
preceding the seventeenth of September to the evening of the Wednesday
before the nineteenth of June. Thanksgiving Day is a holiday, and there
is a Christmas recess beginning on the morning of the twenty-fourth of
December and closing on the evening of the second of January.
Attendance is required of each student throughout the entire
session, with the exception of the days above indicated, unless he has
received permission to be temporarily absent, or to withdraw before its
close. Leave of absence is granted by the Deans for sufficient reasons,
and must in every case be obtained in advance. Voluntary withdrawal
requires the written consent of the student's professors and of the Dean
of the University. While in residence each student is required to attend
regularly all lectures and other prescribed exercises and all examinations
in the courses which he pursues (unless excused for cause) and in every
way to conform to the regulations of the University.
Absence from the University is permitted upon the written leave
of the Dean of the Department in which the student is registered, obtained
in every case in advance. But leaves of absence for the purpose
of accompanying the athletic teams or musical clubs on excursions will
not be granted, except to the officers and members of the organizations.
Absence of Athletic Teams and other Student Organizations.—
The laws relating to absence from the University of members of the Athletic
teams are found in the section upon Physical Training (pp. 265-269).
The same resolutions apply, mutatis mutandis, to members of other student
organizations.
Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors, but
on the day of the first lecture attended after the absence. Unexcused
absences from lectures render the student liable to be disciplined by
the Faculty. In case of delayed entrance the student is regarded as
having been absent from all lectures or other exercises that have been
given, in the courses which he enters, since the beginning of the session.
Absence from Examinations will not be excused except for sickness
on the day of examination (attested by a physician's certificate) or
other cause which the Faculty of the Department by special order may
approve. An unexcused absence, or the presentation of an unpledged
paper, is counted as a total failure in the examination in which it occurs.
A student whose absence from examinations is excused is admitted to the
Fall Examination in the subject in question in each of the departments
where such examinations are held. Where necessary, he is admitted to
a special examination.
Change of Schools, with transfer of fees, cannot be made except
by special order of the Faculty. But a student may change from one
class to another of the same School with the advice and consent of the
professors concerned.
The Grade of the Student in any course, either for a term or for
the session, is determined by the combined class standing and the result of
examination, each being considered in such proportion as the professor in
charge may decide for the course in question.
Class Standing in any course is determined by the regularity of
attendance of the student upon the lectures (and laboratory or other
similar exercises where included) in the course in question, and by the
faithful performance of his work as indicated by his answers when
questioned, by his written exercises, notebooks, the faithful performance
of laboratory (or other similar) work, etc. Students are regarded by
the Faculty as under the law of honor in matters affecting class standing
as in examinations.
Probation.—Any student in the College or the Department of
Engineering whose term grade is below forty per cent. at either the
December or the March examination in each of two subjects will be put
upon probation until the following examination: a like failure at that time
will make it necessary for him to withdraw from the University. Any
student whose term grade is below forty per cent. in all courses at any
examination will be required to withdraw from the University.
A student in any Department of the University who is evidently making
no real progress in one of his courses of study may at any time, after
due admonition, be required to drop the course in question. A student in
will be put upon probation if he fails to attain a grade of forty per cent. in
a single one of his remaining courses at a succeeding examination.
Voluntary Withdrawal from the University requires the written
consent of the student's professors and of the Dean of the University.
When a permit is granted upon the University Physician's certificate that
withdrawal is necessary on account of the student's ill-health, which must
not be due to dissolute conduct, the fees are returned pro rata. Under
no other circumstances will there be a return of fees.
Enforced Withdrawal is inflicted by the Faculty for habitual delinquency
in class, habitual idleness, or any other fault which prevents
the student from fulfilling the purposes for which he should have come
to the University. See also "Probation" above.
| The University of Virginia record February, 1909 | |