 | University of Virginia record February, 1911 |  |
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. 259-262). The
same resolutions apply, mutatis mutandis, to members of other student
organizations.
Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors, but only
for sickness or like providential cause. Such excuses must be rendered
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 examination 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.
The Grades for Passing in any course, required by the various
departments of the university, are as follows:
| in the College, the Department of Graduate Studies, the Department of Engineering, and the Department of Agriculture |
75 per centum; |
| in the Department of Medicine | 80 per centum; |
| in the Department of Law | 83 per centum. |
Re-examination in September.—A student of the College, of the
Department of Graduate Studies, or of the Department of Engineering,
who attains in any course a grade for the session below 75 per cent, but
in charge of the course, be admitted by the faculty of the department
at their final meeting in June to re-examination upon that course during
the registration week of the following September. The fee for each
re-examination is $5.00, and must be paid to the bursar on or before
July fifteenth preceding the opening of the session.
Minimum Grade Required of College and Engineering Students.—
Any student in the College or in the Department of Engineering whose
average grade on all courses for any term is less than 40 per cent will
be dropped from the rolls of the university. Any student who makes an
average of 40 per cent or more, at the end of any term, but whose grade
on each of his courses is less than 65 per cent, will be put on probation
for the term next ensuing. The student on probation who again makes
less than 65 per cent on each of his courses at the end of the current
term, will be dropped from the rolls.
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 the College or the Department of Engineering who falls under
this rule will be put upon probation if he fails to attain a grade of 40
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 "Minimum Grade" above.
| University of Virginia record February, 1911 | |