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...about this one? Starting in the 2006-2007 school year, all students will be obligated to take a seven-week break from their studies. No books, no classes and no libraries. (Actually, Harvard’s already trying this. I think they’re calling it the J-term...
Moving to such a system would mean transplanting fall final exams before the winter break, beginning the school year directly after Labor Day, and leaving January free for the College to offer an extended break or adopt a month-long January term (J-term). This mini-term could be dedicated to classes or other curricular and extracurricular activities...
...also said his committee, which was not vested with the power to make specific policy changes, had considered many possibilities for the J-term in particular...
Unwinding for a longer winter break also would not cost a penny of tuition—J-term might. Although Gross has said that Harvard’s market-driven tuition rate is unlikely to rise as a result of adopting a J-term, notions of massive study abroad programs during J-term make that assertion questionable. Without huge sums of new financial aid dollars, J-term will establish a two-tiered student body—those who can pay for costly travel-based J-term programs and those who cannot. It’s a catch...
...alternative to a J-term is a longer winter break—and an earlier spring finish. Obviously a six week break (two weeks of preexisting break plus four weeks of the defunct J-term) seems rather excessive—even a four-week break would make Harvard’s winter recess on the long side for the Ivies. Nonetheless, that would leave the College’s schedule only two weeks out-of-sync with Harvard’s other schools. And surely if the College and other schools with finals after Christmas are willing to change...