Proposed Budget Reduction Plan

SmithieandProud
Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:27:32 +0000

They’re not cutting Inter-term. They’re thinking about possibly (remember this is only a proposed plan, emphasis on proposed) cutting the not-for-credit interterm program. During J-Term there are many classes offered, but few of them are actually offered for credit. And in the not-for-credit courses that require actual instructors, those instructors have to be compensated. So part of the proposal was a suggestion of no longer offering these not for credit courses.

This would not stop for-credit interterm courses, nor would it stop the courses that students can volunteer to teach themselves (anyone who has a skill or hobby they want to share can volunteer to teach a course on it during J-term).

So relax, J-term is not going anywhere. After all, the whole point of J-term originally was a cost-saving mechanism. THey used to send students home during January so they wouldn’t have to buy coal to heat the shcool.