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
- 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.