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NJ proposes full college sched on Fridays students, profs protest

#1 User is offline   Rail Paul 

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Posted 02 January 2010 - 05:31 PM

Faced with massive budget deficits, NJ state colleges are exploring whether to institute full schedules of classes on Fridays. For many years, Friday has been a day when relatively few classes are offered. Now, with budget cuts limiting construction, some schools are considering a full schedule of classes on Fridays.

Students and instructors, not surprisingly, disagree.

Many NJ colleges are on a schedule that calls for 2 80 minute classes a week, rather than the former 3 50 minute classes which prevailed into the 1990s. While the proposal wouldn't change that, it would schedule more classes on Friday. Other proposals include scheduling day session classes after 3pm, or before 9.30am to accommodate people working part time


Yikes, what's next?
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Posted 02 January 2010 - 05:57 PM

To put this into perspective, I remember thinking how grateful I felt when I started my first year, that Saturday morning classes had been eliminated a year earlier.
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Posted 02 January 2010 - 06:08 PM

Luxury.

I not only had Saturday morning classes at University, I had all day attendance on Saturday in high school. (The afternoon was devoted to sports but that was worse than regular school work.)
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Posted 02 January 2010 - 06:09 PM

Oh, and did I mention the three hours home work per night?
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Posted 02 January 2010 - 06:15 PM

it's been scientifically proven that humans from nj cannot learn on fridays.
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
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Posted 02 January 2010 - 06:59 PM

I am still bitter & aghast at all the people who told me, when I was going off to the university, "You'll never, ever again in your life, work as hard as you will in college."

I thought they were right at the time, but I was only a few months into my first real job after college when I realized what utter crap that was. Now I wonder who those people were & what they did for a living.

Now I remember, they mostly taught high school. No wonder they thought that way.
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Posted 03 January 2010 - 02:13 AM

I never had a semester where I didn't have at least one class on Fridays. Except for languages and science labs (which were held every day), classes were either MWF for 50 minutes/class or TTh for 75 minutes/class. No Saturday classes, but I had Saturday exams, 8 AM language class, and evening sessions.
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Posted 03 January 2010 - 02:15 AM

wow, i can't even remember college
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
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Posted 03 January 2010 - 02:18 AM

where i went to college, they used the letter 'R' for thursday, so we didn't have TTh classes, we had TR classes.
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