With the spring semester back on track, students have had a chance to get settled, have acquainted themselves among other colleagues and have become familiarized with buildings, professors and administration.
However, students may be cautioned to not get too comfortable, too fast.
Southern University administration has proposed to have students take more finals taken in a shorter period of time.
“The decision to shorten the schedule arouse from the student body complaining of back-to-back finals,” said Edgar Blevins, an engineering professor at Southern.
To shorten the schedule would be more efficient than giving students a week to take all of their exams and then have to come back the next week to take final exams.
Blevins said student’s opinions are what move the administration to make an immediate change.
“We are just giving the students what they ask for,” Blevins said.
The question remains if this proposal will put Southern University’s students in an uproar or challenge their approach for higher learning.
Students of the university have already considered going against the idea before it gets out of hand.
“Students already have a lot of subjects to study for and finals week is already stressful enough,” said Chad Roberson, a senior finance and economics major from Dallas. “Why force a student to cram and risk their grades dropping. If this plan goes into effect, I’ll be the first student to protest against the decision.”
Southern University grading policy includes final exams that make up 75 percent of the students final grade, usually determining whether or not students are promoted to the next course.
Still, some students feel they are against the plan of timed finals whereas others feel that executing this new plan could cause their grade point average to suffer tremendously.
“The grades I get during finals make or break my final average and it is because I have time to study throughout the week for them,” said Jelen Giron, a junior psychology major from Seattle.
“If the administration decides to engage in this change, it could result in academic decrease of the student body,” Giron said.
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Students against shortened exam schedule
January 30, 2007
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