{"id":42291,"date":"2020-01-29T17:14:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/?p=42291"},"modified":"2020-01-29T17:14:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:14:59","slug":"scheduling-of-final-exams-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/2020\/01\/29\/scheduling-of-final-exams-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheduling of Final Exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As we begin a new semester, I would like to remind everyone that, per University policy, the final examination for a course must be given only during its scheduled exam period and not during a regular class meeting or on a reading day,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>even if the faculty member and all students in a course agree to such a change<\/em>. The purpose of this policy is to ensure that our students have the appropriate time and space to prepare for finals during the designated study period.<\/p>\n<p>For further information regarding the scheduling of final exams, please see the website of the University Registrar (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/calendars\/final-exams\/policy\/\">http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/calendars\/final-exams\/policy\/<\/a>).<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I want to thank you in advance for your cooperation with this effort and to wish everyone a productive and successful spring semester ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/provost\/files\/2020\/01\/Scheduling-of-Final-Exams-1-29-20.pdf\">Scheduling of Final Exams \u2013 1.29.20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer As we begin a new semester, I would like to remind everyone that, per University policy, the final examination for a course must be given only during its scheduled exam period and not during a regular class meeting or on a reading day,\u00a0even if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,7,3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42293,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42291\/revisions\/42293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}