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Senate finalizes semester calendar

July 6, 2009

By Jeff McCallister

This autumn’s incoming class of freshmen will be the first to graduate from Ohio State under a new academic calendar based on semesters rather than quarters.

That much had been determined in March when University Senate voted overwhelmingly to convert to a semester-based calendar for the 2012-13 academic year. The Board of Trustees approved the switch at its April 3 meeting. Continue reading ‘Senate finalizes semester calendar’

University Senate delays vote on model for semester calendar

June 3, 2009

by Jeff McCallister

A much-anticipated vote on the specific calendar to be used for the university’s switch to semesters was postponed at the May 26 meeting of University Senate to give senators and the OSU community a bit more time to study and perhaps tweak it.

Forums were scheduled June 3 and 4 with a final senate vote scheduled for June 11. Continue reading ‘University Senate delays vote on model for semester calendar’

Semester switch moves toward historic senate vote

March 4, 2009

By Jeff McCallister

University Senate will vote March 12 on a resolution to switch Ohio State to a semester-based calendar to begin the 2012 school year.

The senate’s ad hoc Semester Conversion Committee, chaired by Tim Gerber, presented a proposed resolution to the Faculty Council during the council’s Feb. 26 meeting at The Blackwell. The resolution not only endorsed switching from the quarter system, on which Ohio State has operated since 1922, but also put forth a calendar model. Continue reading ‘Semester switch moves toward historic senate vote’