All graduating students shall attend the commencement exercises as scheduled. Candidates for graduation shall be required to wear academic costumes during the commencement exercises in accordance with the rules and regulations of BPSU
SECTION 68. SIGNATORIES OF DIPLOMA. Signatories of diploma shall include the President and the University Registrar.
SECTION 69. DATE OF GRADUATION. A student who has completed all the requirements of the curriculum, but did not apply for the corresponding degree or title, shall have his/her graduation approved as of the date he/she should have originally graduated.
SECTION 70. GRADUATION FEES. No student shall graduate unless he/she pays the required graduation fee. The university through its Academic Council members shall meet to deliberate and fix the amount of the graduation fee. After which, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, will write a letter of request to the Vice President for Administration and Finance informing the latter about the fees to be collected for the purpose.
The VP for Administration and Finance will then issue a memorandum to university/campus cashiers to collect the graduation fees specified in the request letter of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
SECTION 71. NUMBER OF ALLOWABLE ABSENCES. Number of Allowable Absences. A student is allowed a maximum unexcused absences which is equivalent to 20% only of the entire number of class and laboratory hours for the particular course within a semester.
Absences incurred beyond the allowed number of hours will automatically mean a grade of 5.0 or
“Failed” for the student in the concerned subject
SECTION 72. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. A student who wishes to defer enrolment for a particular semester or academic year may do so provided that he/she applies for a leave of absence from the University.
The request will have to be formally submitted to the Office of the Registrar and endorsed by the Program Coordinator and College Dean of the student. Before approval of the leave of absence, the student is also required to report to the Office of Counselling and Guidance to undergo the necessary interview regarding the application for a leave of absence. It is advised that a student who goes on leave for a particular semester return to the University during the semester that he/
she goes on leave in order for him/her to maintain his/her regular status as a student.
A student is also allowed to go on leave only for one (1) year. Approval for requests of extension of the leave of absence is made on a case-to-case basis.
A student who has not returned after five (5) years of absence from the University will be accepted for enrolment provided that he/she will enroll as a first year student.
SECTION 73. WARNING. Any student who obtains final grades of below 3.0 in one (1) subject at the end of the semester shall be warned by the Dean to improve his/her work. The student will then carry a load that is three (3) units less than the normal load in the following academic term.
SECTION 74. PROBATION. Any student who, at the end of the semester, obtains final grades below 3.0 in two (2) subjects shall be placed on probation for the succeeding semester and his/her load shall be limited to a maximum of fifteen (15) units only.
Probation may be lifted by passing all the subjects he/she carries for the succeeding semester. Any student on probation, in accordance with the preceding section, who again fails or drops any subject shall be dropped from the roster of his/her College.
SECTION 75. DISMISSAL. Any student who obtains failing grades in at least nine (9) units at the end of the semester shall be dismissed from the College, but may be qualified to re-enroll in another College, except if the failures are general education curriculum subjects.
SECTION 76. BARRED. Any student who, at the end of the semester, obtains final grades below
“3.0” in 100% of the academic units in which he/she is given final grades shall be permanently barred from re-admission to any College of the University, and shall be permanently dismissed from BPSU.
SECTION 77. RULES ON TUTORIAL/ SPECIAL CLASSES. Offering of tutorial/special courses may be allowed under the following conditions:
1.1. When the curriculum is suspended by a new one;
1.2. Petitioning students must be:
a. Graduating students whose deficiency is the course being petitioned;
b. Students whose deficiency is the petitioned course before their field practice/
practice teaching/apprenticeship in the succeeding semester
c. Irregular students whose deficiency is a prerequisite course of the course in the semester as prescribed in their curriculum year level.
1.3. There are available faculty and facilities as determined by the Dean;
1.4. The number of units to be enrolled shall not exceed six (6) units;
1.5. The total number of enrolled units shall not be exceed the maximum number of units allowed for the particular semester; that is the student’s final semester; and
1.6. The deficiency is due to failure(s) in the same course.
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SECTION 83. The National Service Training Program Act of 2001 (R.A. 9163) is a program aimed at enhancing civic consciousness with the number of units prescribed in the youth by developing the ethics of service and patriotism while undergoing training in any of its three (3) program components.
Its various components are specially designed to enhance the youth’s active contribution to the general welfare.
All male and female students enrolled in any baccalaureate or in at least two (2) year technical/
vocational or associate courses are required to complete the equivalent of two (2) semesters of the NSTP Common Module offered by any unit for the period of at least twenty-five (25) hours and any one of the components listed below as a requisite for graduation:
1 .Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) 2. Literacy Training Service (LTS);
3. Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS)
While the NSTP law requires the courses as a requisite for graduation, it does not make reference as to when students should enroll in these courses. However, it is recommended that the students finish an NSTP component in his first two years of the program. In meritorious cases, NSTP units may not be considered as an overload, if to be taken on his/her second year.
SECTION 84. EXEMPTION FROM NSTP. Foreign students are exempted from NSTP as well as students who completed any of the three NSTP component but considered first year to the program where they transferred or shitted.
SECTION 85. As prescribed by the CHED, courses taken and completed without satisfying the CHAPTER 17
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for approval.
SECTION 79. MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN A TUTORIAL CLASS.
Students under a tutorial class shall be composed of 1 to 9 students.
SECTION 80. FACULTY HANDLING TUTORIAL CLASSES. The Dean shall identify the faculty who will handle tutorial classes based on specialization and availability of the faculty.
SECTION 81. TUTORIAL/DISPLACEMENT FEE. A tutorial fee duly approved by the BOR shall be collected from a student who enrolls in a tutorial class over and above the cost per unit of the course. Petitioned courses resulting to small class size shall be subject to displacement fee wherein the total number of students is 25.
SECTION 82. ENFORCING AUTHORITIES. The Vice President for Academic Affairs, Campus Directors, The University/Campus Registrars, Deans, and Program Heads are charged with the enforcement of these rules.
provided prerequisite will not be given credit regardless of the grade obtained.
SECTION 86. Students who receive an Incomplete (Inc.) mark shall not be allowed to take advanced courses. They must complete the grade in the prerequisite course before they are allowed to take any of the advanced courses in the next semester.
SECTION 87. In meritorious cases, a graduating student who have previously enrolled and fully attended a course that is a prerequisite to another may be allowed to enroll in and attend the latter course for credit, without having passed or earned credit for the prerequisite course. Permission shall be granted only upon application by the student. The application shall accompanied with certifications from (a) the student’s instructor in the prerequisite course that the student had fully attended the said course; and (b) the Campus Chairperson for Student Affairs and Services that the student’s failure to pass or earn credit in the prerequisite course was not due to disciplinary action imposed upon him/her. The student who is granted permission under these rules is required to enroll in the prerequisite course simultaneously with the course to which the former is a prerequisite.
NB. A student is considered graduating if he/she is completing all academic requirements of the program during the semester/term.
SECTION 88. DEADLINE. Adding/Changing a course may be allowed within one week from the first day of classes during the semester or within the first three days of classes during midyear term.
In the Graduate School, Adding/Changing of course may be allowed within the first day of classes during the trimester.
Any petition made thereafter will no longer be entertained.
SECTION 89. A student shall be allowed to add or change course provided that the class he/she intends to join has not exceeded the maximum number of students and if the students does not exceed the total number of units per semester/term prescribed in the curriculum or the authorized load for probationary students.
SECTION 90. Changing of course shall be allowed if there is a conflict of schedule and the involved courses have the same number of units.
SECTION 91. PERIOD OF DROPPING OF COURSES. Official dropping of a course shall be allowed before the midterm examination week. The student shall be given a grade of “Dropped” regardless of his/her class standing.
After the midterm examination week, a student may be allowed to officially drop a course only by reason of illness duly certified by a physician or by other justifiable reasons such as transfer of