Attendance and Cut Restriction
Although regular attendance is expected of all students, Yale College itself enforces no general regulation concerning classroom attendance. Instructors of individual courses, however, may require attendance of all students in their courses. This is most frequently done in discussion groups, seminars, laboratories, and courses in foreign languages. An attendance requirement, like any other course requirement, should be stated on the syllabus.
A student who, in the opinion of the instructor and of the residential college dean, has been absent from a course to an excessive degree and without excuse may at any time be placed on Cut Restriction in that course or in all courses. An instructor who wishes to place a student on Cut Restriction should communicate with the student's residential college dean. A student on Cut Restriction who continues to be absent from a course may, with the concurrence of the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing, be excluded from the course without credit.
