[Jamesy]

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...

It's official: https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/06/02...k-earlier/

I agree that two weeks would make more sense, get finals out of the way before Thanksgiving rather than saving them for after. FYI, there have not been Thanksgiving week classes since 2004.

[Jamesy]

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...

It's official: https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/06/02...k-earlier/

I agree that two weeks would make more sense, get finals out of the way before Thanksgiving rather than saving them for after. FYI, there have not been Thanksgiving week classes since 2004.