Procedure:

For courses in which a final exam is required, the time and location are determined by the Registrar's office based upon departmental requests submitted by the end of the regular drop/add period for the semester. Final exam periods are a maximum of 110 minutes in length. Procedures for publishing the final exam schedule vary among campuses and include:

• Publication of final exam schedule on the campus registrar's web page
• Access to individualized student and faculty final exam schedules on LionPATH

End-of-semester exams worth more than ten percent of the course grade, including those offered for a 24-hour period or less in asynchronous courses, must be scheduled during the University's posted final exam period. Faculty members should make appropriate announcements in class, and/or use electronic sources such as the University’s learning management system (e.g., Canvas) to help make students aware of the final exam location and time (Ref: Senate Policies 44-10, 44-20, and 44-25). Students who believe they have a “direct” or “overload” conflict of final examinations may file a conflict examination request (Ref: Senate Policy 44-25).

Faculty are not required to administer final exams. However, when courses require end-of-semester alternative student work such as term papers, projects, studio assignments, or take-home exams that will account for more than 10 percent of the final course grade, the assignment due date must be either during the final examination period or prior to the final week of classes. 

Any deadlines set for “alternative student work,” including multiday online or take home exams that will account for more than 10 percent of the final course grade and that are not scheduled through the Registrar’s office should be communicated in class, in the syllabus, and/or through electronic sources such as the University’s learning management system no later than the late drop date to help make students aware of the deadline for that work. 

Exceptions to the provisions of this policy may be granted only for educational reasons and only as recommended by the faculty of the program offering the course and approved by the appropriate dean or chancellor or their designee.

When an exam or other end-of-semester assignment has been scheduled in contradiction of University Faculty Senate Policy 44-20 and/or AAPP F-2, students can request that the assessment be moved to the final exam week if they contact the appropriate instructor by the late-drop deadline.  

On the rare occasion that a student and instructor fail to resolve the concern through informal means, the student may request that the associate dean or director of academic affairs or their designee of the college or campus offering the course review the issue and take appropriate action to mediate and seek resolution.