Part-Time Faculty Handbook - Ventura College

eporting period, you are responsible for dropping any student no longer in attendance. The census date
for each class is on your printed class roster, and also available for all of your classes using the
“Instructor’s Detailed Schedule” menu option on Faculty Services. Census drops must be reported
before the census date.
It is critical that a careful check be made to ensure the accuracy of your class roster. Students not
officially enrolled cannot be given credit for the course, and the college will not receive state
reimbursement for such students.
While there is a legal requirement for faculty to drop “no show” students before the census date, faculty
members are not required to drop students who quit attending after census. It is the student’s
responsibility to drop classes or withdraw from college. It is strongly recommended that you include a
statement regarding your drop policy in your syllabus for each class. Should it be your policy to drop
students for absenteeism after census, consult your “Instructor Detailed Schedule” for the drop
deadlines. These same deadlines apply to students.
You may reinstate students who have been dropped providing arrangements are made for both
assignments and hours to be made up (if necessitated by a lapse in attendance). The form for this
purpose, a Reinstatement Petition, may be downloaded from “VC Downloadable
Forms.” Reinstatements require only your signature as the instructor and, if occurring at the end of a
semester or class period, the final grade to be awarded.
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