Summer Quarter Report
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The Summer Quarter committee met weekly during the Autumn and Winter quarters of the 1996-97 academic year. Meetings bi-weekly of the committee as a whole alternated with three subcommittees. The three subcommittees were charged with formulating recommendations, if warranted, for changes in specific aspects of the Summer Quarter. These subcommittees and their leadership were:
The committee examined in detail the possibility of conversion of the present Summer Quarter from its self-sustaining model into a full academic quarter, in essence indistinguishable from the Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters of the traditional academic year. The subcommittees examined aspects of this conversion in the context of the particular groups and issues that fell within the domains of faculty, students, and administration/budget.
The student subcommittee conducted four focus groups to gauge student interest and participation in Summer Quarter. The results of these focus groups are contained in detail in Appendix 7. The faculty subcommittee completed a survey of departmental chairs in Arts and Sciences regarding faculty participation in the Summer Quarter. These results are contained in Appendix 8. The committee as a whole convened a public forum on 10 December, 1996, to discuss aspects of the present Summer Quarter as well as considerations of conversion of the Summer Quarter to a fully equal academic quarter. Our report is a distillation of the results of these deliberations within and without the Summer Quarter committee.
The Summer Quarter committee believes that it has consulted widely within the University community about the plan presented here. It represents an attempt to provide for the eventual conversion of the Summer Quarter into a full academic quarter, equal to the present Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters. The plan aims to reach this goal within the cultural, budgetary and political constraints that exist today.
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