Report of the Faculty Policy Committee's
Subcommittee on Examination and Term Regulations

APPENDIX L

Current Regulations regarding Governance of Examinations

Rules and Regulations of the Faculty

1.72	The Faculty Policy Committee… The Committee shall have the following duties and responsibilities: a. Formulate policy on matters of concern to the Faculty, for approval by the Faculty; interpret and implement policy as approved by the Faculty. b. Coordinate the work of the other Committees of the Faculty, establishing liaison with them, providing guidance and direction, and referring issues to particular Committees or establishing Ad Hoc Committees as appropriate. c. Maintain a broad overview of the Institute's academic programs, coordinating and reviewing proposals from the Standing and Ad Hoc Committees for presentation to Faculty meeting. d. Communicate with the Faculty as a whole on important matters of policy, reporting regularly at Faculty meetings….
1.73.1	The Committee on Graduate School Policy... Among the duties and responsibilities of the Committee shall be:... d. Cooperating with the Committee on Academic Performance in making recommendations to the Faculty on such matters as calendar changes, examinations, and grading.
1.73.2	The Committee on the Undergraduate Program… Among the duties and responsibilities of the Committee shall be:… a. Considering proposals that would change or modify undergraduate educational policies, and making suitable recommendations to the Faculty. b. Exercising oversight responsibility for undergraduate education, including the freshman year, the General Institute Requirements, and other interdepartmental programs, giving attention to both short-term and long-term trends and directions. c. Encouraging experimental innovation in undergraduate education, including the approval and supervision of limited educational experiments and granting of exceptions to allow any experiment to depart from specific Faculty Regulations and MIT administrative procedures. Descriptions of experiments and reports on their progress and outcome shall be circulated to the Faculty. Experiments that show enduring value should be incorporated in the usual ways into the Faculty Regulations and administrative practices. d. Interacting with other Faculty Committees and with the Schools, departments, and programs on important issues in undergraduate education and communicating with the MIT community as a whole about such issues.
1.73.3	The Committee on Curricula… a. The Committee shall interpret and implement undergraduate educational policy as approved by the Faculty….. g. The Committee shall serve as the standing Faculty advisory body to the Registrar.
1.73.5	The Committee on Academic Performance... a. ... shall be concerned with the academic performance of undergraduates. It shall make recommendations to the Faculty on such matters as minimum scholastic standards, calendar changes, examinations, and grading, in consultation with the Committee on Graduate School Policy on those matters which also relate to graduate students.