<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><i>Sent on behalf of Academic Senate Ken Barish</i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_muxaqsjb2" alt="image.png" width="563" height="69" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif">October 8, 2026</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">TO:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> <span class="gmail_default"> </span>Members of the Academic Senate</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> <span class="gmail_default"> </span></span><span lang="EN">Mia Rose Tu'ifua<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, President, ASUCR</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> <span class="gmail_default"> </span></span><span lang="EN">Katia Hatem<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, President, GSA</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> <span class="gmail_default"> </span></span><span lang="EN">Mata Elangovan<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, Editor-in-Chief, The Highlander</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">FR:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> Ken Barish, Chair </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> Riverside Division</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">RE: Regulations on Credit in Courses and Final Examinations</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <span class="gmail_default"> </span></font></span></b><b style="text-indent:0.5in;background-color:transparent"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Open Access Policy Opt-Out Choice</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b style="text-indent:1pt;background-color:transparent"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Student Absences</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b style="text-indent:1pt;background-color:transparent"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>UC Academic Council Position on Academic Freedom and Civility</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b style="text-indent:1pt;background-color:transparent"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"> </span>UCEP Annual Reminder About Threats to Academic Integrity and Intellectual Property</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">As the new academic year is underway, I would like to remind you of the University of California Regulations on <span class="gmail_default">"</span>Credit in Courses<span class="gmail_default">"</span> and on <span class="gmail_default">"</span>Final Examinations<span class="gmail_default">'</span>. I would also bring to your attention the opt-out option of the open access policy and a suggestion concerning student absences.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I also share the most recent reminder about academic integrity and intellectual property from the University Committee on Educational Policy (UCEP). This is an annual reminder, and UCEP has </span><span lang="EN"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/council-chair-to-senate-divisions-re-ucep-recs-on-academic-integrity-annual-reminder-10-7-26.pdf">posted it here</a></span>. Finally, I </span><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">also </span><span lang="EN"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/documents/MG_ChairsDirectors_AcademicFreedomStatement.pdf">link here</a></span></span><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> the Senate Academic Council’s position on academic freedom and civility as endorsed in 2015.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Credit in Courses:</b></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Final Examinations:</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/bylaws-regulations/regulations/rpart3.html#r770">Regulation 770</a> – Examinations</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background:transparent">: 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></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 47pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">1.<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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.</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 47pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">2.<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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.</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 47pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">3.<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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.</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 47pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">4.<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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, with the approval of the appropriate Committee on Courses, may assign a credit value to such general examination.</span><span lang="EN" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">Open Access</span>:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">On July 24, 2013 the Academic Senate adopted <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">an </span></span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/uc-open-access-policies-background/systemwide-senate/" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(12,83,144);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Open Access Policy</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> that includes the expectation that all faculty will upload all scholarly articles to a UC-supported repository at<span class="gmail_default"> </span></span><span lang="EN"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://escholarship.org/">https://escholarship.org</a></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">. 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 class="gmail_default"> </span></span><span lang="EN"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/open-access-policy/waiver-embargo-addendum/">online waiver</a></span></span><span lang="EN" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (please note that opting out is <i>not</i> the default option in the policy)</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span>S<span class="gmail_default">tudent Absences</span>:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Provost Watkins and I encourage all faculty to take into consideration the suggestion below when dealing with student absences:</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Student 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.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span>U<span class="gmail_default">C Academic Council Position on Academic Freedom and Civility</span>:<span class="gmail_default"> </span></b><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/documents/MG_ChairsDirectors_AcademicFreedomStatement.pdf" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/documents/MG_ChairsDirectors_AcademicFreedomStatement.pdf</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">U<span class="gmail_default">CEP Recommendation on Academic Integrity and Intellectual Property: </span></b><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/council-chair-to-senate-divisions-re-ucep-recs-on-academic-integrity-annual-reminder-10-7-26.pdf"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color:transparent"><span lang="EN">https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/council-chair-to-senate-divisions-re-ucep-recs-on-academic-integrity-annual-reminder-10-7-26.pdf</span></font><span lang="EN" style="background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">- - - - - - -</span></font></span></p></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(79,129,189)">Cherysa Cortez</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></font></p>
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