Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope reminded the campus community to be vigilant of compliance with the University’s new dead week policy in a broadcast e-mail Wednesday.
The policy decrees no graded course work assigned during dead week may total more than 5 percent of the course’s semester grade.
This does not include projects that begin prior to dead week or that take place over the course of the semester, the resolution states.
Thomas Rodgers, Student Government director of Academics, says the change was made because “having 10 percent of your grade decided a week before your finals” is not “good for