My only additional suggestion to Greg's take is to add something during that huge stretch in Spring Semester.
Vicki
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory O'Dea <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:17:29 -0500
Subject: Re: [UTCSTAFF] Fall holidays
I would very much oppose the elimination of Fall Break. Contrary to Dr.
Thompson's experience, when I came to UTC in 1990, it was actually the only
school I'd heard of that didn't have a midterm break in the fall semester.
And because it does come at midterm, rather than "just when classes are
getting going," it seems a real respite to me. Having said that, though, it
does seem that Fall Break might be a day shorter than it is. A four-day
weekend ought to be enough to recharge the batteries, and the extra day
might go to a Thanksgiving travel day.
Greg O'Dea
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Dr. Gregory O'Dea
UC Foundation Associate Professor of English
Acting Director, University Honors Program
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katheryn Thompson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: [UTCSTAFF] Fall holidays
> Dear All,
> I would like to present a proposal for your discussion concerning
the
> holidays during fall semester. I would like to propose the elimination of
> fall break, with perhaps starting the semester a few days later, and the
> institution of a travel on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
> I and many I have spoken with have serious objections to Fall
Break,
> falling as it does just when classes are getting going. It is more of an
> interruption than a respite. A Thanksgiving travel day simply makes sense
> as so many of our students, as well as staff, must travel so far to spend
> the holiday with their families.
> This is the only University I have ever heard of to have a Fall
Break, it
> is equally the only one not to have a Thanksgiving travel day. I am not
> suggesting a reduction of class days, merely a rearrangement.
> What do you think about this?
>
>
> Katheryn A. Thompson PhD.
> Assistant Professor of Spanish
> Foreign Languages & Literatures
>
Victoria S. Steinberg
Asst. Prof. of French
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Ave #2152
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
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