tOSU's scheduled switch from quarters to semesters in 2012

[BB73]

The University Senate just voted in favor of changing tOSU's academic year from quarters to semesters. It still needs to be approved by the Board of Trustees (they meet in April to vote on it, and are expected to approve it); and it wouldn't take effect until the fall of 2012, but the change would impact the football program in a couple of ways. Incoming recruits would no longer be able to start in the Spring Quarter and join Spring Practice (they'd have to do that in January, as some already do).

Also, classes would start earlier in the fall, so there wouldn't be a couple home games before students are on campus; and the football players would go going to classes before their first game.

Edit - As jo4h pointed out, it would allow players to finish their academic year in time to join NFL camps; draftees on the quarter system aren't allowed to attend those until their school year is over.

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Senate approves semester switch

The Ohio Strategic Plan for Higher Education, initiated by the Ohio General Assembly, asks Ohio universities on the quarter system to consider a common academic calendar across all universities in the state.

Nine of 13 higher education institutions in Ohio are on the semester system. Three of the four institutions still on the quarter system - Ohio University, Wright State University and the University of Cincinnati - have declared plans to convert to a semester calendar.

If the vote failed Thursday, OSU would have been the only university in Ohio not to approve the switch.

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Vico talks about this in his BN blog. Link

[jimotis4heisman]

it would also allow players to mostly attend their nfl otas after being drafted. they currently cannot until their fellow peers graduate.

[Jake]

I'm sitting here laughing because this was a topic of discussion when I was an OSU student...in the 1980s.

Logistically, it's a huge undertaking. Any system wide change at a place the size of OSU is like turning the Titanic.

[HorticullyBuck]

It is going to happen, all my professors i have now are already planning the switch, having meetings over classes and what to do. I think its good and bad, but i lean heavier over to the bad side. You can take so many more different types of classes on a quarter system. For certain majors its also greatly beneficial. i know this is football thread, and it probably is better for sports. Glad im getting out before it all happens though

[Folanator]

The bad...no early enrollment for Spring ball.

The good...tickets will be easier earlier in the year.

[buckeyesin07]

Originally Posted by Folanator

The bad...no early enrollment for Spring ball.

Why not? Lots of schools have early enrollment for spring ball, notwithstanding the fact that they're on the semester system.

[NP_Buckeye]

Aside from OSU...Look for all other state schools in Ohio who are on quarters to make the same switch when tOSU does.

[BayBuck]

Originally Posted by NP_Buckeye

Aside from OSU...Look for all other state schools in Ohio who are on quarters to make the same switch when tOSU does.

The only others on quarters are UC, OU, Wright State--and they all already decide to change over in the next few years.

[buckeyefool]

Originally Posted by NP_Buckeye

Aside from OSU...Look for all other state schools in Ohio who are on quarters to make the same switch when tOSU does.

Actually they all decided to before OSU did. Cincy and OU both had already said they were switchhing in 2012

Beat me to in...in addition Columbus State has said it will switch when OSU does, I am assuming becasue they have such a close relationship with OSU.

[NP_Buckeye]

good stuff...I was under the impression the rest were all in if OSU was in.

But thanks for the details.

[JBaney45]

Originally Posted by Folanator

The good...tickets will be easier earlier in the year.

Eh? Actually I would expect them to be more difficult to come by for non students

Currently OSU sells students the season ticket which includes games that occur after the start of the school year, with the option of buying the additional games that occur before the school year begins (which some do, and some don't because of travel/work committments/etc

If the students are on campus for the entire season I would suspect they would sell all the home games as part of the package deal, leaving less for everyone else for those games

[OmahaBeef]

Originally Posted by HorticullyBuck

Glad im getting out before it all happens though

Same here. I love the quarter system. If you have a teacher you hate (which happens on a consistent basis) you only have to deal with them for 10 weeks. As an English major that means I only have to see them 20 times. I can't imagine having to deal with a couple of the teachers I've had for a full semester.

On a more positive side, it allows you to take some really interesting and specialized classes that might be more difficult to justify for a full semester (like the GEC class on black holes I plan on taking in the fall, or the Modernism & the 20th Century Warzone class I'm taking now).

[gracelhink]

Originally Posted by Folanator

The bad...no early enrollment for Spring ball.

The good...tickets will be easier earlier in the year.

Another significant advantage: Basketball players who declare early for the draft can more easily finish the semester and not affect negatively on the APR report.
Recalling the discussion about the inequity of one and done players in schools that were on semesters.
In the Koufos thread last spring there was much debate and contention about the potential hit to the APR when Koufos declared and then dropped his Spring quarter classes.

[BuckeyeMac]

No more starting late September, and no more getting out early June for Summer = It's about damn time

[FrancisSawyer]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeMac

No more starting late September, and no more getting out early June for Summer = It's about damn time

Very much this ^ although it won't affect me - I'm gone after this summer. I always thought semesters would be cool.