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...Petersen said that he was ready to push for his proposal even if calendar reform doesn’t make it onto the Faculty docket this spring...
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...UC’s Calendar Reform Act calls for both the fall and spring examination periods to be shortened by two days each, with reading periods kept virtually intact. Fall term exams in 2008 would end on Dec. 22, with the break lasting until Jan. 19, 2009. The school year would end on May 12—a week and a half before the date set by the current calendar...
...While the Calendar Reform Act proposed a revamped calendar for the 2008-2009 academic year, change may not come so fast. “My sense is that if we were to decide it this year, it would probably take two years to implement,” said Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian. Gross, too, said it would take at least a year or two for changes to be put in place...
...vote on calendar change would hinge on when professors approve the general education curriculum proposed to replace the Core. Three Faculty meetings remain this spring, including one today, for professors to consider the legislation. Outgoing interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles has said the issue of calendar reform wouldn’t be considered by the full Faculty until the general education curriculum was approved. He declined to comment further yesterday...