05-19-2020, 10:48 AM
That's an interesting strategy re: trying to get in fall semester before a potential second wave hits. The quarter schools could do the same if they started right after Labor Day. The week before Thanksgiving would be finals week, and students would be home around November 20. If the second wave does hit, faculty and staff would have about five working weeks (need to allow one week for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays) to go to online instruction for winter/spring.
Given the slower pace of reopening in California, it's hard to imagine any CA colleges or universities being allowed to adopt this strategy--plus the faculty would have to agree to it. But it makes sense to me.
Given the slower pace of reopening in California, it's hard to imagine any CA colleges or universities being allowed to adopt this strategy--plus the faculty would have to agree to it. But it makes sense to me.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)