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The Big Idea: How 8-Week Terms Yield Student Success - LevelUP - 10-10-2026
The Big Idea: How 8-Week Terms Yield Student Success
https://www.usnews.com/education/u-s-news-higher-ground/articles/2026-08-06/college-schedule-term-illinois-central
Another similar article.
Shorter term, bigger gain? More colleges try eight-week calendar
https://edsource.org/2025/accelerated-learning-community-colleges/743832
The Big Idea: How 8-Week Terms Yield Student Success - NotJoeBiden - 10-10-2026
Schools on the quarter system have been running ten week “sessions” for decades
RE: The Big Idea: How 8-Week Terms Yield Student Success - SteveFoerster - 10-10-2026
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.
RE: The Big Idea: How 8-Week Terms Yield Student Success - Mint Berry Crunch - 10-10-2026
(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.