Our campus administration is attempting to fix a problem (that is primarily) with the summer term by redefining the entire academic calendar.
A counter proposal has been proffered that uses a 4 day week calendar. The idea is that 3 credit hour typical semester classes would be held on a Monday/Wednesday and Tuesday/Thursday schedule with Fridays reserved for meetings, research, scholarship, clinical rotations, and Community Service Learning. (Of course, most students would take Fridays off probably.)
The proposal has 1 hr 15 minute class blocks for both the MW and TuTh schedules much as is commonly done for typical TuTh semester schedules.
So, here is my question: Do any of you know of any college or university that has (or had) such a schedule? (Or even something close to such a schedule.)
Thanks,
John
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John E. Sohl, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Weber State University
2508 University Circle
Ogden, UT 84408-2508