It has always been odd to start school a month later than friends who attend semester-system schools. And the reason we do this, the nontraditional quarter system, has been a topic of debate since it ...

As a soon-to-be-graduating senior, I have had my fair share of Drexel's quarter system. When I started as a freshman, it was kind of scary knowing that each of my classes would be jammed into 10-week ...

At some point this year, most of us have been or will be asked, by a well-meaning parent, relative, or friend, how our semester is going. While some of us look past the misnomer, other UChicago ...

We Northwestern students seem to be perpetually plagued by abnormally high levels of stress hormones in our bloodstreams. Maybe it’s the gray haze of clouds that never ceases to hang above our heads ...

If you think Northwestern is nickel-and-diming you, look at the quarters. The next University Strategic Plan is nearing completion, and if University President Morton Schapiro has his way, it will ...

The quarter system seems to catch a lot of flak here at the University of Oregon. Many compare our short 10-week quarter system with the longer 15-to-16-week semester system, which most universities ...

When he assembled a group last fall to evaluate Drexel’s academic calendar, Provost Mark Greenberg said, most members believed it was time for the University to move to semesters from its long-held ...

The quarter system: the dreaded 10-week sprint of never ending midterms, papers and finals. We’ve all heard that chipper UCLA tour guide telling a fresh batch of applicants that although the quarter ...

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A whopping 70 percent of American colleges have semesters. But the other thirty percent of us know there's another academic calendar out there: the quarter system. The quarter system means you get ten ...

In 1891 the University of Chicago’s first president, William Rainey Harper, established the academic calendar based on the quarter system—a bold innovation not without its challenges. A more-intensive ...

On a walk the other day, I turned a corner and bumped into my past self. With Fiona Apple’s “Ladies” from her 2020 album “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” in my earbuds, I was suddenly struck by the fact that ...