BOARD OF REGENTS' POLICY EXCERPTS

Each institution of the University System of Georgia shall ensure that students obtaining a degree from a System institution possess certain minimum skills of reading and writing, hereinafter called Regents’ Writing and Reading Skills. The Regents’ Writing and Reading Skills requirement has been developed to help attain this goal. The Regents’ Writing and Reading Skills requirement will ensure students have competence in reading and writing at a minimum System wide level.

Students enrolled in undergraduate degree programs leading to the baccalaureate degree will be required to complete the Regents’ Writing and Reading Skills requirement as a requirement for graduation.

There shall be two System-mandated courses in writing and in reading that represent a vehicle for meeting the Regents’ Writing and Reading Skills requirement.

There will be System wide tests administered in reading and in writing. These tests will be referred to collectively as the Regents’ Test. The Regents’ Test is designed to provide an additional method for satisfying the Regents’ Writing and Reading Skills requirement.