Class Attendance

Financial Aid Eligibility

Students: to be eligible for financial aid, you must begin attending, and continue attending, your classes during the semester. If you do not attend your classes as required, you could become ineligible for some or all of the financial aid that was given to you for the semester.

If you do not begin taking the classes you registered for, or if you stop attending these classes, it is important for you to formally drop your classes before the drop deadline. Your classes will not be automatically dropped if you do not attend them. You must take action to drop any classes you do not wish to take or complete.

If you choose not to attend the classes you registered for, you are are still responsible for all tuition and fees, and you will also be responsible for repaying any financial aid given to you based on the classes you registered for and did not attend.

If you have questions or need help, talk to us as early as possible in the semester!

Never Attended (“NA” designation)

Because your success as a student depends on regular class attendance and active engagement in your classes, Henry Ford College requires you to actively participate in your learning.

As a student, you will be able to demonstrate this required active engagement and participation in your learning, avoiding the Never Attended (NA) designation, if you have completed one of the following before the published NA deadline.

  • For face-to-face courses: Student attends at least one full class session, and/or student completes one specified assignment.

  • For hybrid courses: Student attends at least one full class session, and/or student completes one specified online assignment.

  • For Live Without the Drive (LWD) courses: Student attends at least one full class session, and/or student completes one specified online assignment.

  • For asynchronous online courses: Student completes one specified online assignment.

  • For Hy-Flex courses: Student attends at least one full class session, and/or student completes one specified online assignment.

Definitions of HFC class types listed above:

  • Face-to-face means your class takes place on-campus, in person.
  • Hybrid means your class is split between on-campus and online -- it takes place in both settings at different times as your instructor indicates.
  • Live Without the Drive means your class is online, synchronous (your instructor and all students in your class meet live, in real-time, online).
  • Asynchronous online means your class is online, and you do the work on your own time, meeting deadlines set by your instructor. You do not "meet" together as a class at the same time.
  • Hy-Flex means your class meets on-campus with a live video/audio feed into the class, and you get to choose whether you participate on-campus or online each class period.

Not attending classes because you have not yet received a financial aid award letter is not a valid excuse to relieve you of your financial responsibilities for your college classes. Financial aid recipients who stop attending classes may owe a Federal Overpayment back to the programs for unearned portions of the financial aid you received. If you owes such an overpayment, you will be notified by the HFC Office of Financial Aid and must repay the funds in full. Please see the Return to Title IV (Federal) Policy for specific information.