ADJUSTMENT IN THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR



(Board of Trustees Meeting, March 21, 1971)



The Board then turned its attention to the President's

report of the Conference Group meeting which had been held on

March 5. The first item referred to was the students’ request

that the ecademic calendar be moved up, with the fall semester

beginning in late August and ending before the Christmas

holidays. Final exams would then be over before Christmas

vacation and a new semester would begin when students returned

from their holiday. The spring semester would extend from the

first part of January to late May. Several aspects of this

proposal were discussed, including the relationship of the

College's calendar to that of the public and private school

systems in the Virgin Islands. A final decision concerning



this question was left to the faculty.



[For the action of the faculty, see the Minutes of the Faculty

Meeting held on March 25, 1971./



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