13 October 2000

To: Department Chairs and Deans
From: Faye Vowell, Provost
Subject: Changes in Summer School

Please share the following information with your faculty and use it in your planning for summer school. These decisions are the outcome of the Summer School meeting held on Thursday, 12 October. Those in attendance included June Decker, Roland Shook, Chuck Kelly, Al Milligan, Stuart Moore, Judith Lawrence, Rich Pease, Jack Ellis, Lou Ollivier, Teresa Rowlison, Peggy Lankford, Chris Farren and Faye Vowell.

More options are being offered as to length of time the courses are taught.

1. Summer school will start June 4 and end August 3. This is a change which pushes back the start of summer school to attract more teachers.

2. If you want to follow the usual timing of two five week sessions, Summer I will last from June 4 through June 29. Summer II will start July 9 and go through August 3. This is a change in the start time for Summer II to allow for a week between the two sessions; the July 4 holiday falls during this week.

3. Class times will be lengthened to enable us to have the appropriate amount of instruction time. Timing of classes this summer is as follows: 8:00- 10:15; 10:30-12:45; 1:00-3:15; and 3:30-5:45. On this schedule, classes will meet Monday through Thursday. If you choose to teach five days a week, your three credit class will last 4 weeks instead of five. Options need to be clearly indicated on the schedule.

4. You may also choose an option of teaching your three credit class in three weeks Monday through Thursday meeting from 8:00 to 12:00 or from 1:00 to 5:00. This option is often more attractive for graduate classes and for students who commute.

5. You have the option of teaching your three credit class Monday through Thursday for 2 hours a session in a 6 week format.

6. Please coordinate your offering with other departments which might be offering courses to the same student audience as you are.

7. Please note that grades will not be mailed out between the two five week sessions. Your students will need to be made aware of this. Also advisors need to be aware of potential problems if students are enrolled in a class for the second 5 weeks that has as a pre- requisite the class that they took the first 5 weeks.

8. Academic Council will be looking at enrollment data from summer 2000 and summer 2001 to make some decisions about the relative attractiveness of different formats. Please spend some time thinking about this topic and discussing it with your faculty.

Here is an alternate way of looking at the choices above. Classes may start June 4 or any time after June 4 and must end by August 3. The summer school time frame could be though of as two 5 week sessions, three 3 week sessions, one 6 week session and one 3 week session, one 5 week and one 4 week session.

*M-R = Monday through Thursday

cc: Counts, Casey, Farren, Shook, Kelly, Moore, Lawrence, Pease, Rowlison, Lankford, Aleckson

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