It is expected that instructors will require all course assignments, including term papers, to be submitted at the latest by the last day of reading period. (For the dates of reading period and final examination period, consult the Yale College Calendar with Pertinent Deadlines at the front of the YCPS.) Instructors do not have the authority to give permission for this deadline to be extended beyond the end of the term; only the residential college dean has this authority (see Work Incomplete at the End of Term under Completion of Course Work in the Academic Regulations, chapter II of the YCPS). Even if an extended deadline should be announced by the instructor, a grade reflecting work submitted after the end of the term cannot be accepted unless a Temporary Incomplete was authorized by the student's residential college dean.
