Admin. error eliminates Fall Break for coming year
The University announced yesterday that Fall Break Day, Oct. 12, would be cancelled for the 2009-2010 academic year due to an error in the planning of the academic calendar.
The administration belatedly realized that it had not accounted for Labor Day, which falls on a Monday, the same day of the week as Fall Break, in planning the academic calendar. As a recipient of federal funding, the University may not have class on Labor Day.
"A faculty member looking ahead to preparing a syllabus for his course for next fall realized that with no classes on Labor Day and with no classes on the Monday of Fall Break, he had one fewer class meeting time than he had expected. We were asked by the department if this was intentional and realized that, indeed, it was an oversight. This realization came a little over one month ago," Paula Burger, Hopkins vice provost, wrote in an e-mail.
In the e-mail, Burger outlined the various alternatives that were being considered: holding classes on Labor Day, holding classes on the Tuesday of reading period, extending the examination period to Saturday, December 20 and bringing forward the start date of classes.
A panel consisting of the deans of the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering, department chairs and the Office of Student Life decided that holding classes on Fall Break Day was the best option.
Susan Boswell, dean of Student Life, spoke with SGA officers, and all agreed that canceling Fall Break Day was the best course of action.
"The academic deans consulted with us [the Office of Student Life], and we tried to come up with a fair solution, and this was the only one that really made sense," Boswell said. "The only other place that we could borrow a day from was reading period, but students have been clear that they feel reading period time should be preserved."
"Keeping a three-day reading period is definitely more important than a day off in October," Morgan McCauley, a sophomore economics major, said.
The administration belatedly realized that it had not accounted for Labor Day, which falls on a Monday, the same day of the week as Fall Break, in planning the academic calendar. As a recipient of federal funding, the University may not have class on Labor Day.
"A faculty member looking ahead to preparing a syllabus for his course for next fall realized that with no classes on Labor Day and with no classes on the Monday of Fall Break, he had one fewer class meeting time than he had expected. We were asked by the department if this was intentional and realized that, indeed, it was an oversight. This realization came a little over one month ago," Paula Burger, Hopkins vice provost, wrote in an e-mail.
In the e-mail, Burger outlined the various alternatives that were being considered: holding classes on Labor Day, holding classes on the Tuesday of reading period, extending the examination period to Saturday, December 20 and bringing forward the start date of classes.
A panel consisting of the deans of the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering, department chairs and the Office of Student Life decided that holding classes on Fall Break Day was the best option.
Susan Boswell, dean of Student Life, spoke with SGA officers, and all agreed that canceling Fall Break Day was the best course of action.
"The academic deans consulted with us [the Office of Student Life], and we tried to come up with a fair solution, and this was the only one that really made sense," Boswell said. "The only other place that we could borrow a day from was reading period, but students have been clear that they feel reading period time should be preserved."
"Keeping a three-day reading period is definitely more important than a day off in October," Morgan McCauley, a sophomore economics major, said.
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dick henry
Professor Richard Conn Henry
posted 4/20/09 @ 10:32 AM EST
If my CCC&T calendar (please google to find it!) were to be adopted, mistakes of this kind could never occur.
alexhaffey
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posted 7/14/09 @ 10:39 AM EST
"Keeping a three-day reading period is definitely more important than a day off in October," completely agree with this words.
Stan.Bally
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posted 7/23/09 @ 10:46 AM EST
This mistake is so simple, I can not understand how did they do it. Of course, every person can make mistakes...
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posted 11/09/09 @ 10:48 AM EST
Great news. I was impressed!
davidmush
Academic papers
posted 11/14/09 @ 5:01 PM EST
Great news and stuff!
tomfeinberg
Dissertations
posted 11/16/09 @ 10:02 AM EST
If my CCC&T calendar were to be adopted, mistakes of this kind could never occur.
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posted 11/17/09 @ 10:39 PM EST
I have to agree with what Morgan McCauley quoted. It does make good sense.
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posted 11/19/09 @ 11:48 PM EST
This is absolutely terrible. I can't believe there won't be a Fall Break Day. There should be no excuse.
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