Schedule change at Rome campus to affect Spring Friday classes
By Julianna Hunt
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Staff Writer
Students at the Rome campus of Georgia Highlands College can look for new options when they register for spring classes. FC is discontinuing its Monday-Wednesday-Friday classes. In their place there will be Monday-Wednesday classes and just a few Friday only classes.
According to Dr. Virginia Carson, Vice President for Academic Affairs, the change was made because the faculty wanted to try this format. They also felt that it would be a better use of the time. This format is not a change for the North Metro Tech, Cartersville or Haralson sites. Carson stated that this format will offer students more flexibility in building their schedules. Students can decrease the number of days that they will have to commute to FC.
Because of the increased enrollment at FC for fall, Carson said that the division chairs may have to review and add new sections for the spring. Students can find out about these changes online through the SCORE and through their advisors. The spring schedule will also list the advising specialists at FC so that they can be more readily located by the students.
This format for classes has met with success at the other sites at FC. Evan Johnson, a business administration major from Rome, said, � Either way it doesn't really matter. For people with night jobs more days and less hours is good; for others a few days is good.� Some students felt a little differently about the changes. Amy Garrett, an early childhood education major from Rome, stated that she liked the 50 minute classes.
According to Director of Student Life John Spranza, the biggest effect the schedule change will have with student activities is that Tuesdays from 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m. will be the only student activity time. Now student activity time is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:55 a.m.-11:20 a.m. He is not sure how the new schedule will affect student activities, but he did say that some spring activities may have to be rescheduled into new time frames. |
