06-02-2020, 11:35 AM
Agree with 2006alum, and would add that my classroom attendance goes down if I'm teaching Monday/Wednesday during Thanksgiving Week because my students are travelling. Down a bit on Monday, and there's almost no point in having Wednesday-day-before-Thanksgiving class--although I do because it's required. Then we usually have one full week of classes--used to be called dead week--and finals the following week.
So my preference would be to start the quarter two weeks early and end the week before Thanksgiving. But that would probably overlap with summer sessions, so you solve one problem and create another...
So my preference would be to start the quarter two weeks early and end the week before Thanksgiving. But that would probably overlap with summer sessions, so you solve one problem and create another...
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)