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Changing the calendar has been tricky. With the first academic year under the newly reformed calendar nearly halfway complete, students have begun to absorb its implications, and an unintended consequence of calendar change has emerged—namely, the end of the semester has become considerably more stressful for students...
The foremost problem with this current calendar phase is simply that reading period has become truncated. Last year’s fall reading period, excluding winter break, was ten days long. By contrast, this year’s reading period is only one week long—a full three...
One potential response to the stresses of a shorter reading period would be for professors to avoid assigning the heavy workloads at the end of the fall semester that would have been manageable under the old calendar, and instead opt to distribute the workload more evenly throughout the semester. Too...
Overall, we recognize that the new calendar has many benefits, not least the rescheduling of exams before winter recess. The implementation, however, has not been perfect, and specific flaws require sincere attention from the administration going forward.
For over a century Rhodes Scholars have left Oxford to begin their careers. Given their records, virtually any jobs have been available to them. For most of that history, they have overwhelmingly chosen paths in scholarship, teaching, writing, medicine, scientific research, law, and military and public service. They have reached...