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Payment Deadline
Students will be allowed 10 calendar days (including weekends and holidays) from date of registration to submit payment (Daily Drop Process). If students register less than 10 days from the first day of instruction, payment is due the Sunday before classes begin. If payment is not received by the due date, classes may be dropped. It is always the student’s responsibility to drop the courses they no longer wish to attend to avoid payment or penalties.
Student Attendance
Students have the responsibility to attend classes regularly and apply themselves to the college classes in which they are enrolled. When you have been absent due to illness, you should explain the absence(s) to your instructor. No credit will be given for a class in which a student is not officially enrolled. Students who do not attend the first meeting of each class in which they are registered may be dropped from the class. However, it is the student’s responsibility to officially drop any class they stop attending or do not attend. Instructors may also drop students who have missed class for an equivalent of two or more weeks of instruction.
CATALOG
www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/catalog Temporarily in CSS Building Room 151 | (661) 395-4305
Catalogs explain the BC academic programs, requirements for admission and the various support services available on campus. Remember, for graduation and degree requirements, students must refer to their appropriate catalog depending on their year of catalog rights. If a student wishes to use a current catalog they may do so as well.
Catalog Rights
Students graduating within five (5) academic years of initial enrollment shall have the option of completing either: (a) the degree requirements of the College catalog in effect at the time of initial enrollment; or (b) any set of revised degree requirements published in a subsequent Bakersfield College catalog. Students graduating more than five (5) academic years after initial enrollment must adhere to the specific degree requirements in effect in any Bakersfield College catalog within the five-year period prior to the students’ graduation.
To maintain catalog rights, the student must maintain continuous enrollment during the five (5) year period. Continuous enrollment means the student must earn a grade of ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘F’, ‘NP’, ‘P’, ‘I’, ‘IP’, ‘RD’, or ‘W’ in at least one course each academic year.
For the purposes of continuous enrollment, an academic year begins with the summer semester and includes the following fall and spring terms. Petitions for exceptions should be directed to the Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs. Catalog rights apply only to Bakersfield College graduation and program requirements. If other institutions change their requirements for entrance, graduation, satisfaction of general education patterns, or in other ways it may be necessary for the student to meet the new requirements upon transfer, even if continuous enrollment has been maintained.
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