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<i>Sent on behalf of Senate Division Chair Ken Barish</i></div>
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October 9, 2024</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">TO: </span>Members of the Academic Senate</div>
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Abby Choy, President, ASUCR</div>
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Jordan Steinhauser, President, GSA</div>
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Brenda Jovel, Editor-in-Chief, The Highlander</div>
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<b>FR: </b>Ken Barish, Chair</div>
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Riverside Division</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">RE: Regulations on Credit in Courses and Final Examinations</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"> Open Access Policy Opt-Out Choice</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"> Student Absences</span></div>
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As we begin the new academic year, I would like to remind you of the University of California Regulations on “Credit in Courses” and on “Final Examinations.” I would also bring to your attention the opt-out option of the open access policy and a suggestion
concerning student absences. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><u>Credit In Courses:</u></span></div>
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Regulation 760: “The value of a course in units shall be reckoned at the rate of one unit for three hours’ work per week per term on the part of a student, or the equivalent.” Related information may be found in the UCR General Catalog under Policies and Regulations
- Academic Policies.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Final Examinations </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/bylaws-regulations/regulations/rpart3.html#r770" id="OWAef98e50c-cc1d-82dd-7905-b54e91e00372" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Regulation
770 – Examinations</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">: No student shall be excused from assigned final examinations except as provided in SR 772 (D). Regulation 772 in its entirety is given below:</span></div>
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Final examinations are required in all undergraduate courses, except as provided elsewhere in this Regulation. Whenever practicable each such examination shall be written and must be completed by all participants within a previously announced time limit. Examinations
in non-laboratory courses may not exceed three hours' duration.</div>
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Examinations are normally not required in laboratory courses or their equivalent, as individually determined by the appropriate Committee on Courses. At its option, the department concerned may require a final examination in any laboratory course, subject to
prior announcement in the schedule of classes for the term in question.</div>
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With the approval of the appropriate Committee on Courses and upon recommendation of the department concerned, the final examination may be omitted in any undergraduate course or sets of courses either once or for a longer period.</div>
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At the end of the term in which a student is expected to be graduated, the student's major department may examine the student in the field of the major, may excuse the student from final examinations in courses offered by the department during that term, and,
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><u>Open Access: </u></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In 2013 the Academic Senate adopted an </span>
<span style="color: rgb(12, 83, 144);"><u><a href="http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-policy/policy-text/" id="OWAe2a47807-a5bf-ca4f-f456-0b6e08028c5a" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(12, 83, 144);">Open Access
Policy</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> that includes the expectation that all faculty will upload all scholarly articles to a UC-supported repository (the types of articles covered are listed in the policy). The policy also includes the possibility
of opting-out from this process by filling out the appropriate</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-policy/waiver-embargo-addendum/" id="OWAadaf24f4-c5ed-be3b-295f-6813b93bb4d7" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
</a></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-policy/waiver-embargo-addendum/" id="OWA099293cd-6a3a-137b-4a82-73515215b14c" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">online waiver</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (please
note that opting out is <i>not</i> the default option in the policy).</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><u>Student Absences:</u></span></div>
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Provost Watkins and I encourage all faculty to take into consideration the suggestion below when dealing with student absences:</div>
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Students' attendance at University classes is always expected. It is recognized that students’ absences may result from external circumstances, as well as from activities that are important to a student's overall educational experience and are consistent with
the University's mission to serve students. Some of these activities are also beneficial for the campus culture and image. Faculty are encouraged to be cognizant of these principles when articulating their procedures for handling absences in their course policies.</div>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Cherysa Cortez</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Executive Director, Academic Senate</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">University Office Building 221</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 2pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);"><b>UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE</b></span></p>
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