Compressed Calendar

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Compressed Calendar

• Senate
• March 28, 2007

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Background

• First discussed by Senate in 2005
• Vote taken in spring 2006
• Faculty 82 in favor of compressed
• Students 71 in favor of compressed
• College Council formed a Sub-committee in
  November 2006
• Members include faculty, administration and
  classified

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• Much has changed since the spring 2006 vote
  including
• No longer being encouraged by administration as a
  method to increase FTE funding
• Classes must end on 5 minute multiplies
• 1005 or 1010 or 1015 not 1003 or 1007
• No classes can be 51 64 minutes in length (more
  on that later)
• Classes must be in a four-day/week format
• Mon-Thurs format with Friday having one day/week
  classes

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• Because of all the changes the sub-committee
  would like to present the Compressed Calendar and
  Schedule widely to faculty and then have another
  faculty-wide vote this April.

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The Calendar

• The calendar must comply with weeks days of
  instruction
• 16 weeks (3 days of Mon-Fri instruction)
• 175 days of instruction
• The Fall Spring semesters of the proposed
  Compressed Calendar would be 16.6 weeks long
• Assumes 1 mandatory flex day 2 flexible flex
  days

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• Winter intersession is an optional session
• No one will have to teach in this intersession
• Hopefully instructors will create new perhaps
  innovative classes to meet during winter
  intersession.

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Class Meeting Times

• Because the semester is not as long, each class
  meeting must be somewhat longer
• Dead Zone
• The state will not pay for class times between 51
  and 64 minutes, so a class must be 50 minutes or
  65 minutes or greater.

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To Calculate Minutes a Class Must Meet
Basic Equation (Number of units) x 17.5 ? 16.6
? (Number of class meetings) Contact hours
per meeting Contact hours per meeting x 50
minutes per hour minutes per class
meeting This equation assumes that we have a 16
week semester with 3 flex days each semester (1
mandatory and 2 floating). This will make a term
length multiplier (TLM) of 16.6. (The 3 days of
flex constitute 3/5 or 0.6 of a week.)
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Class Schedule

• We took the minutes that classes must meet and
  designed a schedule showing times a class would
  meet.
• We tried to leave a semi-blank time around noon
  on Thurs to increase ASB activities provide a
  time for faculty to meet

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Possible Class Meeting TimesMon-Wed
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Possible Class Meeting TimesTues-Thurs
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Class Meeting Times

• Will work for faculty and students to take or
  teach similar load to current load

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Student with 20 units
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Meet Vote on Calendar

• Everyone is invited to the college wide
  information meeting on April 17th from 2-4 P.M.
  in Room 1. 
• Full time and adjunct faculty will hold a vote on
  April 24 and 25 to indicate their preferences.