Student Handbook - Claflin University

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IMPORTANT ACADEMIC DATES
AUGUST
11 New Student Check In/Residence Halls open for new students
12 Freshman Parting Ceremony - 3:30 p.m.
13 - 14 Freshman Testing and Registration
15 Faculty Return and Faculty/Staff Institute - 9:00 a.m.
15 - 16 Freshman Retreat
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Official Information
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY PROGRAM GUIDE
1. All registered students are expected to attend weekly assembly programs.
2. Freshman and sophomore students are required to attend all assembly programs.
3. Attendances for junior and senior students are optional except for Matriculation Day (Spring &
Fall), Founder’s Day, and Honors and Awards Day programs.
4. Excuses for absences from assembly are to be submitted in writing before the next assembly.
5. Male students are to remove their hats when entering all buildings.
6. Students are required to remain in place during the invocation, benediction, and the singing of
the Alma Mater and/or The National Black Anthem.
7. No food or beverage is permitted.
REV. ALONZO WEBSTER WRIGHT LYCEUM PROGRAM
The University provides for the “out of class” intellectual and cultural development of its students
by sponsoring The Lyceum Series. Lectures, drama productions, and concerts comprise the year’s
program. Vocational and religious activities are also offered. The Lyceum program will bring to the
University and Community well known and professionally established musicians and leaders in the
Humanities and trailblazers in the Sciences.
MILITARY SCIENCE ARMY RESERVE OFFICER
TRAINING CORPS (ROTC)
The Department of Military Science is an academic subdivision of the College of Business and Applied
Professional Sciences and conducts all Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) activities. The
department offers instruction not only in military skills, but also practical working knowledge in human
relations, management, responsibility, physical fitness, problem solving, and leadership. All contracted
cadets are paid a subsistence allowance of $25, $300 and $350 per month for freshmen (ROTC
level 1) through seniors (ROTC level IV) respectively and approximately $750 for attending the Leadership
Development and Assessment Course.
OBJECTIVES
Students who satisfactorily complete the Senior Division Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Program
may be commissioned as a Second Lieutenants and serve in the active, reserve, or National
Guard component of the United States Army.
PROGRAM OFFERINGS
All students are encouraged to pursue, as electives, Basic Course ROTC studies for a period of two
years. These courses may be taken in lieu of physical education. This is a prerequisite for enrollment
in the advanced course unless the student is participating in the Advanced Placement Program of the
Two-Year Commissioning Program. The advanced course is a two-year program which includes
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