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The Big Idea: How 8-Week Terms Yield Student Success
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The Big Idea: How 8-Week Terms Yield Student Success
https://www.usnews.com/education/u-s-new...is-central

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Shorter term, bigger gain? More colleges try eight-week calendar
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Schools on the quarter system have been running ten week “sessions” for decades
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When I was at Keiser University had nothing but block scheduling of four-week terms where students would take one course at a time, and this was more than twenty years ago and it wasn't new to them even then.

It's wild how resistant so much of legacy higher ed has been to even the simplest changes, even now when so many of them are on the verge of closing.
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(10-10-2026, 10:29 AM)SteveFoerster Wrote: When I was at Keiser University had nothing but block scheduling of four-week terms where students would take one course at a time, and this was more than twenty years ago and it wasn't new to them even then.

It's wild how resistant so much of legacy higher ed has been to even the simplest changes, even now when so many of them are on the verge of closing.

Innovation and sustainability are just talking points in higher ed courses, when it comes time to implement them, managerial myopia and organizational inertia kicks into overdrive.
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