Attendance is critical to a student's academic progress. Students are expected to be present, prepared and active participants. Students should discuss absences with instructors. The attendance policy for a particular course will be shared in class and included in the course syllabus.

If receiving financial aid, students should be aware that failure to attend classes may affect that financial aid.

Nonattendance

Failure to actively participate in any course during the first 10% of a course’s actual hours of instruction is considered nonattending. If an instructor reports a student as nonattending, the student is removed from the course and notified of their removal via their Blackhawk student email. At this point, students are no longer considered registered in that course and cannot start attending unless approval from the instructor is received. If permitted, the student must reregister by contacting the Registration and Records Office. Removal from a course due to not attending may affect financial aid.

Instructor Withdrawal

Once 10% of a course has taken place and up until 80% of the course is completed, a faculty member can withdraw a student from a course with a grade of “W” if the instructor recognizes that the student has not been engaged in the class for two consecutive weeks or 20% of the total class has been missed.

Students are responsible for the cost of any course they are registered in after the course has had its first meeting of the semester. Students must drop the course before its first meeting to not incur any charges for having been enrolled in the course. Please refer to the Blackhawk calendar for important dates regarding semester deadlines.

Administrative Withdrawal

A faculty member or College administrator can recommend that a student be removed from a class using Administrative Withdrawal. Administrative Withdrawal must be approved by a Dean or Academic Chair, Registrar or Executive Director of Student Services and will typically be granted only when students have extenuating circumstances and are unable to withdraw themselves from a course(s). Extenuating circumstances may include, but are not limited to, hospitalization, severe illness, personal or family emergency, or incarceration. If a student is able to withdraw themself from a course, they should be directed to withdraw themself from the course through the Registration card in MyBTC or by contacting the Registration and Records Office (registration@blackhawk.edu).