Your city Columbus :: Ohio State University switches to Semesters
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Friday to switch to a semester-based academic calendar.
The change will take effect in the fall of 2012, 10TV’s Tanisha Mallett reported.
“Ohio State is acting partially in response to the University System of Ohio’s Strategic Plan for Higher Education, 2008-2017, which calls for a common academic calendar across all state universities,” said Ohio State Provost Joseph A. Alutto. “But the move to semesters has been seriously considered for some time.”
Among the benefits to students will be an earlier entrance into the job market following graduation, the university said.
The conversion will also facilitate opportunities for student research, international study, internships, service learning and other specialized learning experiences for undergraduate and graduate students.
While some students say the quarter system makes it easier for them to finish school in less than four years or perhaps handle a double or triple major, they said they understand the university’s desire to make the change, Mallett reported.
“There are not many colleges that are on quarters and it does kind of make sense with equilibrium with other colleges to just go with semesters,” said freshman Cody St. Clair.
The switch to semesters has been proposed twice before and rejected both times. OSU President E. Gordon Gee was in favor of the change in 1991. Former president Karen Holbrook also favored the switch when it was proposed in 2001.
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