Spring 2025 Semester Final Exam Schedule

Concentrated Study Period

The five-day period during the fall and spring semesters (Wednesday - Sunday) immediately preceding the week of final examinations will be set aside as a concentrated study period.  

To promote a learning-centered environment, graded coursework (including but not limited to tests, exams, quizzes) is not permitted during concentrated study period.  Exceptions to this policy include:  laboratory courses; graduate and professional courses; presentations, papers and projects identified on the syllabus on the first day of class; and participation. During this time, no extracurricular student activities, such as social and athletic events, will be held on or off campus.  

Any exceptions must receive prior approval from the Office of Academic Affairs.  Students should report any violations of this policy to the Office of Academic Affairs.  

Final Examinations

All regular classes will be discontinued after 10:00 p.m., Saturday, May 3.  

Final examinations are required in all courses.  A final examination is defined as the last in a series of major tests specified in the course syllabus.  It need not be comprehensive.  If the course syllabus does not call for a final examination, the last major unit examination is to be considered the final examination and must be given during the final examination period.  When a series of major tests is scheduled in addition to the final examination, the last of the major test series may not be given during the concentrated study period.  When a final examination is inappropriate because of the nature of the course, exceptions to this requirement may be made upon approval of the appropriate department chair, dean/director, as well as the Office of Academic Affairs. No member of the faculty is authorized to waive final examinations except with approval as prescribed.

Final examinations must be given during the published dates/times for the final examination period. During this time, no extracurricular student activities, such as social and athletic events, will be held on or off campus.  No exam shall exceed two hours. In addition, review sessions may not be held during the period of final examination because of the conflicts with scheduled examinations, and no class can hold additional exams outside of their designated time slot during exam week. 

Workshops, seminars, and conferences cannot be scheduled in classrooms controlled by the Office of the University Registrar during the final examination period. The auditoriums and large classrooms are all assigned for examinations and are not available for other outside activities. 

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Classes not included in this schedule are considered irregular and the dates of their examination shall be fixed by the instructor concerned, subject to the provision that they be held no earlier than 7:30 a.m., Monday, May 5 and that they not conflict with this schedule. See below for information on how to determine final exam times for irregular courses. Irregular scheduled courses should have the final date and time published in the course syllabus at the beginning of the semester. However, if an evening class time is not listed on this exam schedule, instructors should clear classroom availability through the Office of the University Registrar.

A laboratory class is to be examined on laboratory material at its last regularly scheduled period.  Exams and performances in laboratory-type courses may be given or required during the concentrated study period.

Final examinations for Saturday classes will be given at their regularly scheduled class times on the Saturday of exam week.  Classroom availability for Saturday exams must be cleared through the Office of the University Registrar.  

Students having three or more final examinations in a 24-hour period may request permission to take no more than two examinations on the day concerned.  Requests for special arrangements will be considered only when the three or more examinations cover more than seven (7) hours of credit work.  These requests should be made to the dean or director at the college or school in which the student is registered.  The dean or director is authorized to determine which of the examinations is to be taken at a time other than originally scheduled; that decision is final.  A student scheduled for examination in two subjects at the same group examination period shall report for examination in the class listed first in the above schedule; the instructor of the other class shall arrange a special examination for the student.  In case of a conflict between a group examination and an examination in a class for which a group examination is not scheduled, the instructor of the class having the group examination shall arrange a special examination.  So that instructors concerned may have adequate notice for rescheduling examinations, students with schedule problems must have all arrangements completed by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 28. Instructors will make no changes in the examination schedule without the permission of the department head and the dean of the college.

A student who, because of an illness or other valid reason, is absent from any final examination may take a special examination only with authorization of the dean of the student’s college.  

Exams administered through a third-party proctoring service such as ProctorU must include multiple time block options within the given exam period for students to schedule their assessment, regardless of if the course is synchronous or asynchronous.  

Students who have the option to schedule an assessment during multiple time blocks may schedule the exam on a date when they have two fixed final exams; however, they may not then request permission to move one of the fixed final exams to another date.   

If the course is synchronous (set meeting day or time), the instructor must use the assigned exam block for the scheduled course along with two additional exam blocks.

Asynchronous meeting patterns are considered irregular, and therefore do not appear in the final exam schedule. For asynchronous courses, faculty may determine the final exam time at the start of the semester, but must have the time of their final exam clearly stated in the course syllabus. If the exam is being proctored by a third-party and must include a three-day period for students to complete the assessment, the three-day window must include the exam time published in the course syllabus.

If the exam is being proctored by the faculty via Zoom or Moodle, faculty should follow the traditional final exam schedule or the final exam time published in the asynchronous course syllabus.

Degree Candidates

Grades for degree candidates must be filed in the Office of the University Registrar no later than 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 13.  Grades for all non-graduating students are to be filed as soon as available, but not later than 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 14.  It is the responsibility of the department head to see that instructors meet the deadline for submitting all grades.

Courses not included in this schedule are considered irregular. Irregular courses should identify the regularly scheduled times that appear on the final exam schedule that overlap with the irregular course time. For example, if an irregular course is offered 3:30-5:00 p.m., MW then it overlaps with the following regularly scheduled course times:

• 3:30-4:30 p.m., MWF (overlaps by 1 hour)
• 4:30-5:30 p.m., MWF (overlaps by 30 minutes)

When selecting the regularly scheduled time from these options, please be sure to select the regular option that most overlaps with the irregular time period for final exam purposes. In the example above, the irregular course most overlaps with the first option; therefore, the final exam would be held Friday, May 9, 2025, from 5:30-7:30 p.m..

Irregular scheduled courses should have the final date and time published in the course syllabus at the beginning of the semester.