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Attendance
Class attendance is an obligation as well as a privilege. All students are expected to attend (or interact online, if applicable) regularly and punctually all classes in which they are enrolled. Failure to do so may lead to being dropped from the course or a failing grade. Faculty members are required to state and to explain in the course’s syllabus their expectations concerning class attendance (or online participation, if applicable) and absences.
Each instructor must keep a permanent record for each class. It is the instructor’s prerogative to define “excused” and “unexcused” absences. If a student has “unexcused” absences for ten percent of the total scheduled classes, the instructor may drop the student from the course. Students who are dropped from courses for excessive absences may appeal the action. (See “Deadline for Challenging/Appealing Drops Due to Excessive Absences” in Academic Appeals .)
Changes To Class Schedule
Requests by students for addition of courses cannot be accepted by the Office of the Registrar after the end of late registration. Generally, students may not change sections after the end of late registration. When the student can verify that his or her hours of employment have been changed, the student may change from day to night or night to day sections of courses if such sections are available and the involved instructors agree to the change.
Dropping Classes/Withdrawing From College
A student is responsible for dropping classes or withdrawing from College if he/she is unable to complete the course(s). A student must not assume that a faculty member will drop them from class. Failure to officially drop a course or withdraw from the College may result in the student receiving an “F” in the course.
A student may drop a class in the Registrar’s Office (City Park Campus), Student Records Office (Charity School of Nursing Campus), Admissions Office (West Bank Campus), Office of Northshore/Slidell or Northshore/Covington, or on the Delgado web site until the final date for dropping. (See the Academic Calendar for specific dates for each semester.) Dropping all courses is the same as withdrawing from the College.
To withdraw from the College, a student must complete the official Withdrawal Form. The form and instructions for proceeding are available at the Office of Advising and Testing (OAT-City Park Campus), Student Records Office (Charity School of Nursing Campus), Office of Northshore/Slidell or Covington, or the Admissions/Registrar’s Office (West Bank Campus). The Librarian, the Bursar, and a Financial Assistance Officer must sign the completed form before it is submitted to the Registrar’s Office on the student’s respective campus. Withdrawal is effective on the date the completed form is submitted to the Registrar’s Office. The final date for dropping a class or withdrawing from the College is in the academic calendar for the semester.
Reinstatement
Students who have been dropped for excessive absences or who have dropped courses themselves may request reinstatement. If the reinstatement is approved by the instructor and the division dean, the student may process the paperwork in the Office of the Registrar. The approved paperwork must be received by the Records Office by the deadline listed in the Academic Calendar.
Auditing Classes
A student who wants to enroll in a college credit course for personal enrichment and who does not want to earn college credit may elect to audit the course. The decision should be made at the time of registration. Changes from audit to credit or from credit to audit must be made by the official end of Late Registration as listed in the college calendar. A student may audit no more than nine credit hours in any semester.
An auditor will not receive college credit, nor will he or she be permitted to obtain credit for the audited course through a credit examination or any other form of non-traditional credit. However, a course previously audited may be taken for credit by enrolling in the course.
Students who wish to audit courses must follow the same admissions procedures as credit students. Students who have been suspended or dismissed by other colleges or universities may, under specified conditions, audit courses at Delgado. (See the Admissions section for details. Audited courses are not included in determining a student’s full-time enrollment status (for insurance or other purposes).
Change Of Major
A degree-seeking student may transfer from one degree or certificate program to another. A non-degree-seeking student may declare a major after meeting the admission requirements for a degree-seeking student. A student wishing to change his or her major may do so in the Registrar’s Office. Students must meet the degree requirements listed in the catalog in effect at the time they change majors.
Change Of Catalog
A student who misses a fall or spring semester must follow the catalog in effect when the student returns to college. A student may request permission to use his or her original catalog only if the student had completed two-thirds (2/3) of the courses required for the degree under the original catalog at the time of the break in enrollment.
Requests for catalog changes will be approved by the appropriate division dean and the campus executive dean so long as the catalog requested is no more than five years old (i.e., 2002-2003 for the 2007-2008 year). Requests to use an older catalog will also require the approval of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. A student may not use any catalog in effect other than his or her original catalog, the catalog when the student returns after missing a fall or spring semester, the catalog in effect when the student changes majors (to be used only for the new major), or the exit catalog.
Courses In Sequence
A student may not register for any lower-level course in a sequence after having received a passing grade in the higher-level course in the sequence. In this context, the higher-level course must contain material similar to, but at a more advanced level, than that of the lower-level course. Such courses include but are not limited to: accounting, algebra, biology, calculus, chemistry, computer languages, design, drafting, drawing, English, foreign languages, keyboarding, music, painting, physics, and sculpture. Such courses must be identified by the fact that the lower-level course serves as a prerequisite to the higher-level course. Students may repeat BIOL 251-253 after having completed or while enrolled in BIOL 252-254 because of the non-sequential content of these two pairs of courses.
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