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$2 each.No official document will be granted until the student has complied with all of the institution’s academic,administrative and financial requirements.ATTENDANCE POLICYInstituto de Banca y Comercio recognizes that classroom attendance is fundamental to the developmentof the educational and formative process. For this reason, classroom attendance is mandatory. If a studentis absent on two consecutive occasions, his/her case will be referred to the Counseling Office.If a student is excessively absent, this may be cause for suspension from financial aid programs, asstipulated in the Federal Regulation. In cases where students lose their eligibility for financial aid due toattendance, they will assume all responsibility for payments not made against their debt.The counselor or professor is authorized to justify absences when a student presents a written excuse; thismay be for an illness, death in the family, military service, citation to a court of justice or other legitimatereason.In the extreme case where an absence cannot be avoided, an experience or task of a similar characteristicfrom the one missed will be assigned by the professor of the area of study. This way, if a student is unableto attend one or more classroom meetings, s/he is responsible for completing a written assignment or apractice on the stipulated dates. Absences replaced by make-up work are considered as accumulated hoursand will negatively impact the classroom attendance grade. Each professor will submit the classreplacement plan to the Counselor’s Office on a weekly basis for the corresponding data entry ofreplacement instruction hours in each one of their courses.In the case where a student does not make up the assigned experience or task and accumulates more than30% of the total course hours as absences, the final course grade may be a deficient (D) or fail (F), inwhich case the student will have to repeat the class at a later time. Each professor will inform students, atthe beginning of the course, how s/he will calculate the attendance and course grade in each of his/hercourses.CONSECUTIVE ABSENCES AND ADMINISTRATIVE WITHDRAWALSWhen a student is absent two (2) consecutive times to one or more of his/her courses, his/her professorswill notify the Counselor’s Office. The Counselor and/or Retention Coordinator will contact the studentvia telephone or letter and will proceed to schedule him/her for an appointment in his/her office. If thestudent does not respond or attend the appointment, the applicable partial or total administrativewithdrawal will be processed against the student. The absent student has the right to be readmitted to classafter presenting and explaining his/her reason for absence to one of the following officers:1. Counselor – studies the case, approves and issues the readmission to class document.2. Professor – the last professor to sign the document will return it to the Counselor’s Office.No student will be readmitted to class without having gone through the readmission process after havingbeen reported to counseling. If a student is absent for 14 consecutive days (including Saturdays, Sundaysand holidays), this will be considered as an unauthorized abandonment of the training and the Registrar’sOffice will immediately process the applicable partial or total administrative withdrawal, retroactive tohis/her last day of attendance.- 49 -