SUBJECT: PRE-FINAL WEEK AND FINAL EXAMINATIONS

APPLICABILITY: FACULTY AND STUDENTS

PRE-FINAL WEEK

So that students can more adequately prepare for their final examinations, special rules apply to the seven calendar days preceding the final week of each fall and spring semester. Student organizations do not meet; activities requiring student participation such as field trips, athletic events, or performances by dance, drama, or music ensembles are not scheduled unless approved in advance by the appropriate dean. Themes, reports, notebooks research problems or exercises of similar scope are not to be assigned during this period, but students may submit previously assigned work.

Only examinations covering daily assignments, make-up tests, or laboratory examinations may be given. Faculty members shall not give any portion of the final examination during this seven-day period without advance approval from their academic dean.

On the Thursday and Friday of the week immediately preceding final exams, review classes will be held. Furthermore, attendance at these reviews cannot be made mandatory and there will be no papers, projects, exams, quizzes, or like assignments due on those days. Make-up exams will be permitted. This policy will not be applicable to classes that meet only once a week and meet on Thursday and Friday.

FINAL EXAMINATIONS

Faculty members are expected to administer final examinations at the designated times during the final week of each long semester and during the specified day of each summer term. Any deviation from the published schedule of final examinations must be approved in advance by the appropriate academic dean. If a final examination is not given in a particular course, the faculty member is expected to utilize the final examination period for summary, evaluation, or other productive purposes. Students who have as many as three final examinations scheduled on one day may appeal to their academic dean to reschedule one of those examinations on another day during the final examination period.

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