A Better University Term Schedule

It seems that university term scheduling is broken. Why are summer terms relegated to second tier status if they are even included at all? With a standard 14 week plus one week break university semester you can comfortably fit in 3 equal terms and even have space left over for 5 one-week intensive miniterms if you wish.

Every professor need not teach a class every term, but can spread existing course-load over a wider array of options.

Even better would be 6 seven week terms where you attend class twice as much per week but take half as many classes at a time. The tradeoff here, of course, is that you have less time for extended projects and papers, and less time to bring up to speed students who fall behind before the final.

1. Spring
2. Spring
3. Spring
4. Spring
5. Spring
6. Spring
7. Spring
8. Break (Actually move for easter)
9. One Week Intensive MiniTerm[1. That is a one week class in which you complete all of your readings by the first day, you attend 8 hours a day for 6 days, you take your midterm on monday and you take your final exam on saturday with your term paper/project due X weeks after the class.]
10. Spring
11. Spring
12. Spring
13. Spring
14. Spring
15. Spring
16. Spring-Finals
17. One Week Intensive MiniTerm
18. Summer
19. Summer
20. Summer
21. Summer
22. Summer
23. Summer
24. Summer
25. Break (actually move for july 4)
26. One Week Intensive MiniTerm
27. Summer
28. Summer
29. Summer
30. Summer
31. Summer
32. Summer
33. Summer-Finals
34. One Week Intensive MiniTerm
35. Fall
36. Fall
37. Fall
38. Fall
39. Fall
40. Fall
41. Fall
42. Break(actually move for thanksgiving)
43. One Week Intensive MiniTerm
44. Fall
45. Fall
46. Fall
47. Fall
48. Fall
49. Fall
50. Fall-Finals
51. Christmas
52. Christmas