Academic Catalog and Handbooks

2024-2025 Edition

Final Exam Schedules

The academic calendar concludes each semester with a one-day study and three-day test cycle. Faculty may administer final exams, final projects or presentations for their classes only during the exam period officially scheduled by the Registrar’s Office. Cumulative final examinations, projects or presentations, may not be given during regularly scheduled class days of the semester, except for night classes. If there is to be a cumulative final exam in a course, students must be given the opportunity to review all tested materials by the last scheduled class.  The faculty member has the right to retain the tested materials.

Study day supports student preparation for the final exam period. Faculty or departments may offer study sessions to assist students in their preparation.  Please do not schedule required activities on this day (no final exams, final projects or presentations).

Instructors of full-term courses are expected to announce at the beginning of the course whether a two-hour final examination, final project or presentation will be given. Such an exam will be administered during the three-day test cycle according to the schedule below. Classes are assigned a test time and day in the schedule according to the cycle and time period it meets during the semester. Night classes may use their last regularly scheduled class period for a final exam.

One period has been reserved on two test days for the administration of a common exam for multiple-section courses who so desire. A list of such courses, and their exam times, will be announced.

PROTOCOL FOR MAKE-UP OF FINAL EXAMS

If the Provost Office determines that final exams cannot be held due to weather or any other emergency situation, then the following protocol will be followed:

  • If the entire day of final exams must be canceled, then that day of exams will be held the day after the last day of the regularly scheduled final exams. The exam times will remain the same on the extra exam day.
  • If classes are canceled for any part of a regular exam day then those exams will be held the day after the last day of the regular final exams. The exam(s) will begin at 8:00 am on the extra exam day.