Chapel Attendance
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Chapel provides a regular opportunity for communal worship through music and the Word to assist in developing Christ-like students. It is a great privilege for the IWU community to participate together in chapel. Chapel attendance is expected of all students, and required for all resident students. It is also required for all full-time commuting students under 23 years of age with classes both before and after the 10:00 or 11:05 AM chapel periods.
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Chapel services are held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10:00 and 11:05 a.m. in the Phillippe Performing Arts Center auditorium and Old College Church sanctuary. Optional night chapels are occasionally held on Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. in the Old College Church sanctuary. Attendance at a Thursday night chapel replaces attendance for a chapel on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday in the same week.
Attendance for Chapel in Phillippe Performing Arts Center Auditorium is registered when students get their student ID card scanned by a Chapel Attendant. A student must have his or her card scanned at the BEGINNING and the END of Chapel in order to be counted present. Attendance is not registered for any student scanning in late or scanning out early. All students must arrive to chapel within five minutes of the start time to receive credit. Those arriving five minutes after chapel begins will not be counted in attendance or able to scan. A singe scan does not give the student credit for attending chapel.
Students who forget or lose their student ID card will be able to receive credit – one time per semester – by submitting a description and detailed notes of what happened in chapel to the Office of the Dean of the Chapel located in the Student Center – Suite 280. If an ID card is lost, students may get their ID replaced by purchasing one ($10) or obtaining a temporary ID from Conference Services located in the Student Center – Suite 270. Attendance credit will not be given to those students without student ID's. If a student ID card does not work, the Chapel Attendant may enter the ID# manually.
Attendance for approved Alternative Chapels (Religion Colloquium, Honors College Chapel, Division Chapel, etc.) is registered by signing in with the approved advisor. Sign in sheets are processed within 48 hours after receiving them from the advisor.
Those students who are involved in leading the Chapel service must sign the Chapel Attendance Form provided to receive credit.
Students are expected to be reverent in chapel. Discourteous and distracting behavior is not expected or tolerated. No hats for men are permitted in Chapel. Men will be asked to take off their hats prior to scanning for attendance. Men and women are expected to adhere to the dress code outlined in the student handbook. Food and drinks are not permitted in the auditorium. Studying and homework are not permitted during Chapel. All electronic devices, including cell phones, laptops, and personal music players, must be turned off during the Chapel time. Failure to abide by the above will result in no credit for that day. Above all, you are expected to come prepared to encounter God.
Attendance Integrity: Students who attempt to defraud the chapel attendance system in any manner have committed a serious integrity violation. A student who falsifies his or her chapel attendance in any manner will not receive credit for the falsified chapel and will be required to meet with a representative of the Office of the Dean of the Chapel. Upon a second offense the student will be placed on Citizenship Probation for the remainder of the semester. Upon a third offense the student will receive one semester suspension.
Attendance Exemptions: A Chapel Exemption Form must be completed and approved by the Office of the Dean of the Chapel within the first three weeks of school for those students who will be consistently absent from chapel due to student teaching, work schedules (must obtain supervisor’s signature), practicum, or other extenuating circumstances. Students requesting exemption for one day a week will be allowed four unexcused absences and students requesting exemption for two days a week will be allowed two unexcused absences per semester.
Excuses for emergency causes must be secured through the Office of the Dean of the Chapel within one week of the absence.
Chapel Accountability
Students are responsible for monitoring their own Chapel attendance online in the Wildcat Portal. If there is a discrepancy, students may challenge their attendance by submitting the form online or filling out the appropriate form in the Office of the Dean of the Chapel located in the Student Center, Suite 280. Once approved, updates or changes may be processed within 48 hours.
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