Students may not attend a residency unless they have registered for it during the normal quarterly online registration period. Students will be officially notified of their reservation status by email confirmation.
Travel and Accommodations
Students are responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Students must make travel arrangements that allow them to attend the entire residency including any schedules orientation. Failure to do so may result in a
loss of residency units and contact hours associated with arrival or early departure at residencies. To find out more about accommodations for a residency, visit the Residency Accommodations page.
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Attendance
Attendance may be taken, via student sign-in rosters, at specified times throughout the residency. The residency agenda, which is posted on the ACAS web site and in a designated online course in advance of the first day of the event and
which is available on-site, will indicate the sessions at which attendance is required. Failure to attend a session may result in the loss of residency units and contact hours associated with that particular residency. Students who are
unable to meet the attendance requirements for any reason must provide written documentation to the on-site residency coordinator. Any absence may result in a loss of residency units. Partial units are only awarded to students who have an
approved exemption petition on file with the coordinator of academic resiedencies prior to the beginning of the residency.
Exemptions
Exemptions from residency policies and procedures may be granted by the director or coordinator of academic residencies for religious/spiritual, emergency, and hardship situations only. With the exception of emergency situations, students
requiring an exemption from attendance requirements must gain approval for the absence by writing to the coordinator of academic residencies before the residency begins. Students may appeal the decision to the V.P. of Academic Affairs, whose
decision is final.
Students who are excused from residency activities will not be awarded residency units for the time missed. They may make up the units by spending the time missed at another residency at no additional charge, or by completing an alternative
learning activity approved by the V.P of Academic Affairs.
 Field Trips
Field trips enable instructors and students to expand learning beyond the limitations of the virtual classroom into the vast community outside. Perhaps a field trip can best be described as a living laboratory in which learning is acquired
through interacting with working professionals in a related subject field or active hands-on experience with the resources of the organization.
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All graduate, undergraduate, and diploma programs at ACAS require academic residencies, face-to-face sessions with students and faculty, held throughout the year at various locations around the United States including the ACAS Science Field
Station and Preserve in Crescent City, Florida. At residencies, students and faculty work together on a variety of educational and scholarly activities such as colloquia, workshops, field trips, individual advising, classroom instruction,
and animal or agricultural field study and practice. The academic residency allows students to develop a support network with faculty and colleagues for continued academic work at ACAS and for future career development.