Perhaps not to relevant, but the college I attended used to do something
like that. However, it was a quarter system school (not semester). The
typical class met 4 days a week, M,Tu,Th,F; there were no classes on
Wednesday. The idea was to provide Wednesday as a reading day for
students. The students referred to it as "wonderful Wednesday". I
rather liked the approach as a student as it provided a "2nd weekend" to
catch-up on your studying. Naturally Tuesday night ended up being a
party night for many students. However the missing day coming on
Wednesday rather than a Friday meant that not many students were
vacating campus to have a 3 day weekend.
If the school really wants the off day to be productive, making it a
Wednesday would be more useful than a Friday.
Having M,Th and Tu,F classes.
Of course, if the true purpose is to give administrators a 3-day weekend
it is probably a settled matter already.
________________________
Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
605-688-4293
| -----Original Message-----
| From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
| [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf
| Of John SOHL
| Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 10:59 PM
| To: phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
| Subject: [Phys-l] term schedules
|
| Hi All,
|
| 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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