Once the Final Exam Schedule is published after Schedule Building Rounds I & II each year, every effort should be made to maintain the accuracy and integrity of that published schedule with regard to the officially scheduled day and time for an individual course section's final exam period, based on its standard semester day and time, or the Common Final Exam Schedule as published. See the charts above.

The published Final Exam Schedule and Common Final Exam Schedule has been developed over the years to accommodate every possible Standard Class Time configuration, providing a 2 hour final exam period as close to the original courses scheduled day and time to facilitate students accommodation of work and family life schedules already established. When in doubt or confused, please ask for help from Facilities Reservations to interpret the Final Exam Timetable. Common Final Exams have been placed to minimize the possible conflict of students having two common exam times at the same time. Therefore, faculty are encouraged to keep the established Final Exam Period as published.

When circumstances require it, a faculty member may request in writing or by email from their Department Chair, copying their Department Secretary, a change of the standard scheduled final exam period or common final time. When Facilities Reservations receives the written or email permission of the Department Chair, the faculty member may work with the Department Secretary, who will further contact Facilities Reservations to achieve the change.

The following requirements and order of priorities pertain for all requests to change scheduled final exam times.

1. As a faculty member, you must specifically inquire and ascertain that no student would be adversely affected by the proposed new final exam day and time. You may not move your own final exam period to a time that creates a conflict for any students in the course, unless you make specific and convenient accommodation for the student or students affected. Faculty should ascertain this before they request a time change, and may need to ask their students again once a specific proposed change has been negotiated.
2. As a faculty member, you may change room locations, if available, keeping the same day and time, but this must be cleared first through Facilities Reservations via the Department Secretary. Making room changes during Finals Week requires special book keeping and maintenance by Facilities Reservations, and your Department Chair, Secretary and Facilities Reservations staff need to know to be able to advise students as appropriate for such changes.
3. As a faculty member, you may change you standard final to a common final exam period, with the permission of the Department Chair and arranged by the Department Secretary, if condition #1 above is met. Facilities Reservations will make a specific reservation for the classroom to be used during the alternative standard final exam period, if available.
4. As a faculty member, a last resort option is available. You may change your standard final to another standard final exam period, with the permission of the Department Chair and through the Department Secretary, if condition #1 above is met. Facilities Reservations will search for an available classroom and make a specific reservation for the classroom to be used during the requested Final Exam Period, if available.