{"id":36316,"date":"2011-09-09T13:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T17:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=36316"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:38:34","slug":"attendance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate and Graduate Student Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Effective July 1, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Students are expected to attend every class session. Instructors, at their discretion, may have attendance-based grade components, which must be noted in the course syllabus. Students should understand that they are responsible for the academic consequences of class or exam absences. Any student who has been excessively absent from a course, according to the instructor, may be recommended to withdraw from that course.<\/p>\n<p>Information on religious absences can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/absence-for-religious-reasons\/\">Absence for Religious Reasons policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Information on bereavement absences can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/student-bereavement\/\">Student Bereavement policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective July 1, 2026 Students are expected to attend every class session. Instructors, at their discretion, may have attendance-based grade components, which must be noted in the course syllabus. Students should understand that they are responsible for the academic consequences of class or exam absences. Any student who has been excessively absent from a course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1393,"featured_media":0,"parent":36244,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36316"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101578,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36316\/revisions\/101578"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}