Work and Travel Policy for Students

June 2, 2012

Dear students,
 
 Please be informed that beginning in fall 2012, a new policy will go into effect regarding students who participate in the Work and Travel program. Over the years, we have noticed that a significant number of students who attend this program fail to return to AUCA in time for the start of the fall semester. This jeopardizes their academic performance and makes teaching the classes they take complicated for the faculty, thereby negatively affecting the education of other students in the class.  At least in part in order to make it easier for students on the Work and Travel program to return in time for the fall semester, we have decided to push the beginning of the semester one week later, and, as you will have noticed, classes will begin on September 3 this coming year.  After having made this concession, however, we are not willing to continue to countenance the late arrival of students from the Work and Travel program.  We hereby make it known that any student who has participated in Work and Travel during the summer of 2012 and who does not appear in person to see his/her advisor before the end of the first week of classes (that is, by Friday, September 7, 2012) will not be permitted to make any schedule adjustments to the academic program he/she chose during the spring pre-registration period. No exceptions to this policy will be made.  It is your responsibility to ensure that you are back in time for the beginning of the fall semester. If the sanction we have proposed does not prove to be sufficient to prevent the problem of late arrival of Work and Travel students, AUCA is prepared to take further action up to and including banning participation of our students on this program in the future. 

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