Lab tests and semester project reports and presentations are permissible during the final week of classes. Papers and homework may have a due date during the final week of classes only if scheduled in the syllabus. However, in order for students to prepare for final examinations, faculty members may not assign other tests, quizzes or additional papers during the final week of classes. Assignments should not have a due date during the final exam period unless the assignment constitutes a part of the final exam. Exceptions to this policy must be approved in advance by the department head and the dean of the college involved. Students should contact the appropriate instructor or department head if they believe an assignment is not in compliance with this regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After grades are posted this semester, students that entered in the Fall 2004 cohort who did not did not register as full-time students (a minimum course load of 12 semester hours) for both Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 semesters and\/or who did not successfully complete at least 24 semester credit hours that count toward graduation in their major will receive progress warning letters directing them to confer with their departmental advisers. Though these students will be flagged for \u201cProgress Warning\u201d status, the academic units will have the authority to determine whether the flag remains or is waived for individual students. The process for making those determinations will be coordinated by the academic associate deans in each of the colleges.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Except for research, seminar, tutorial, or studio courses, final examinations should be given in all courses. Exemptions may be granted by the faculty member responsible for a particular course or section provided prior approval is obtained from the department head. Exemptions may be applied to whole courses, sections, groups of students, or individual students, provided that these exemptions are applied equitably to the students in a particular course or section and comparable procedures are applied to all sections of multiple-sectioned courses.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Examination periods are scheduled for three hours, and examinations must be given within these scheduled periods. Exceptions require approval by the dean of the college in which the course is taught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No student is required to take more than two consecutively scheduled final examinations in a 24 hour period. Should the scheduled examinations result in this situation for an individual student, the student must consult Registration and Records for schedule verification and to obtain a form approving an alternative examination time for the course designated by the student. The form is to be presented to the teacher in the course noting the alternative exam date and time, and the student must return the signed form to Registration and Records.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachers are not required to return final examinations to students. However, if they elect not to return final examinations to students, teachers must retain the examination at least until mid-semester of the next regular semester and must, during that period permit the student to schedule time to review the examination at a mutually convenient time. In cases for which the teacher is not on campus in the next regular semester, the department head is expected to make reasonable efforts to assure that the examinations are maintained in the department and to make provision for scheduled student review. However, such opportunity to review examinations not being available is not a basis for reexamination.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Subject to the approval of the department head and dean of the college in which a course is taught, a senior who would graduate at the end of a given semester but for the grade in a single course earned within the immediate past 12 months may be given a reexamination and have the reexamination grade, if higher than the original course grade, replace the course grade. The reexamination grade can only be C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-, or F. This provision may be utilized only once and only for one course.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All courses and all students in courses are subject to the use of the +\/- grading scale. Teachers are responsible to determine the performance recognizable by each grade.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instructors are to remember to ask students for consent before posting grades. Instuctors may also tell students to check their grades from the Department of Registration and Records<\/a> web site using the TRACS LINK — where final student grades are posted less than 24-hours after they are received. The students also have access to grade distribution reports from this site.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The IN grade must only be given in cases in which the student was unable to complete work, not due to his or her own negligence, in a course when the student’s record in the course supports a projection that passing the course is possible upon completion of the work. It is NOT a substitute for an F or an LA. An IN is only appropriate when the student’s record in the course is such that the successful completion of particular assignments, projects, or tests missed as a result of a documented serious event would enable that student to pass the course. INs must be made up before the end of the next regular semester in which the student is enrolled and in no case may be made up more than 12 months after the end of the semester in which the IN is awarded, unless the teacher or department offering the course is not able to provide the student with an opportunity to make up incomplete work , in which case the period can be extended. Make up work is to be limited to accomplishing the work not completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIncomplete Grades<\/h2>\n\n\n\n