Attendance:  

University regulations state that a student should attend every scheduled class (Policies and Rules for Students section 42-27).  Frequent absence from class is unacceptable.  If you miss a class it is your responsibility to determine what material, announcements, handouts, graded papers, etc., were missed due to your absence.  There will be no make-ups for missed lectures.  You should arrange for one of your classmates to hold returned papers in the event you are absent when papers are returned.  I do not assume responsibility for holding papers if you are not there to pick them up, or have not made arrangements for someone else to pick them up.  I will, of course, try to hold unclaimed papers for a few days. As stated in the above mentioned Policies and Rules, "If an evaluative event will be missed due to an unavoidable absence, the student should contact the instructor as soon as the unavoidable absence is known to discuss ways to make up the work. An instructor might not consider an unavoidable absence legitimate if the student does not contact the instructor before the evaluative event."  As such, reasonable prior contact with the instructor will be required before an evaluative event (including laboratory meetings) for the possibility of a make-up.

Makeups:

No provisions will be made for makeups for unexcused absences.  Late assignemnts will not be accepted.  If a makeup is permitted for an excused absence, it will be scheduled reasonably at my convenience.  Otherwise, the grade assigned for a missed evaluation event will be a ZERO.

Office Hours, C-127 Smith:  

Will be announced in lecture and posted outside the office door.  Additional hours may be announced, and the office hours may be changed without notice if students do not utilize the posted hours.  If students can not attend regualr office hours, please leave a voice-mail or e-mail message or see the intructor after class.

Dropping the Course:  

Contact the Office of the Registrar, in room E-130 Smith.  No course can be dropped after the end of the drop period.  This date, and your final exam time and date, as well as other useful information is always appended to the copy of course offerings for any semester.  This usually occurs just before or just after the THIRD scheduled examination in this  course (This semester, the third exam is scheduled before the last day to drop).  Caution! in dropping courses is advised because of a maximum (during your entire PSU tenure) allowed number of credits you may drop between the end of the "free" drop period until the end of the allowed drop period (when you have to pay to drop).

Seating Assignments:  

Seating Assignments for lectures will be posted if I think it is needed.  If you wish to sit in the front half of the room, please give me a sheet of paper with your name, section and request for a front half seat prior to the end of the third lecture.  Should  you wish to have your assigned seat changed, please notify me in writing.  You will have assigned seats in recitation, which must be written on the front of your exams and quizzes to get credit.

Campus Statement on Academic Integrity, adopted by the Altoona Campus Faculty Senate on March 19, 1985.  

"Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity free from fraud and deception and is an educational objective of this institution.  Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, fabrication of information or citation, facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by others, unauthorized prior possession of examinations, submitting work of another person or work previously used without informing the instructor, or tampering with the academic work of other students." (Policies and Rules for Students. Section 49-20)

Consequences of Academic Dishonesty:  

"The penalty for academic dishonesty in less serious cases consists of a failing grade for the work or test where this misconduct occurred.  This decision is made by the instructor.  For more serious cases of dishonesty, the penalties are more severe, (including automatic failure for the course, probation, suspension or expulsion from the University), and formal due process procedures are available for the student and faculty involved.  Section 49-20 of the Policies and Rules for Students provides the details on these procedures."

Scheduled Classes Not Met:  

In Extraordinary circumstances (which have occurred from time to time in the past, and which will occur from time to time in the future), when classes are missed due to reasons other than instructor illness, power failures, weather, and the like, in which the missed classes are not made up, missed classes will be rescheduled if possible, in conjunction with the Office of the Registrar.  Any such rearranging and rescheduling would be announced in class so that appropriate arrangement could be made by all.