D R A F T

WHEREAS in February, 1986 the Faculty Senate passed a resolution on scheduling examinations, tests and quizzes and required that they be held during scheduled class periods with the ‘sole exception’ of common examinations given for multi-section courses, and

WHEREAS, the rationale for such a policy was to minimize conflicts for students with other scheduled University courses and activities, and

WHEREAS, the number of sections requiring common examinations has grown from those given in fewer than 10 sections in 1986 to more than 150 sections involving over 6,000 students

BE IT RESOLVED that the policy be changed to read as follows:

EXAMINATION AND TESTS

“To minimize conflicts for students with other scheduled University courses and activities, a required examination, or test (excluding make-up examinations for individuals and regularly scheduled final examinations) may be given only during regularly scheduled class or laboratory hours associated with that course, with the sole exception of common examinations given for multi-section courses when these various sections have different scheduled meeting times. For these permissible common examinations, the following will apply:

- Common examinations will be scheduled only from 5:00 PM to 7:00PM, Wednesday thru Friday and Saturday.

- The Registrar’s Office will insure that there are no conflicts among the common examinations scheduled and will announce the dates and times of the common examinations in the Registration Booklet. Departments will determine the examination dates and times sufficiently far in advance that they will be printed in the Registration Booklet for that term.

- In the few instances where it may be necessary for a student to schedule a single section course in conflict with a common examination, the instructor of the single section course will treat the student’s absence from class on that day as excused.

- Absences due to athletic participation or other extracurricular activities in which students are office representatives of the University will be recognized as excused when the student informs the instructor in writing during the first two weeks of the semester of these planned absences for the semester. Absences due to similar events that could not have been anticipated earlier in the semester will be recognized as excused absences upon advance notification of the instructor by an appropriate faculty advisor or athletic coach.