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Faculty were reluctant to accept the new system because they thought it would infringe on their research time, she says. The new calendar requires many faculty to come back to the campus before Labor Day to prepare for classes, and the preparation often conflicts with important professional meetings in late August, Hall says...
...There is no perfect calendar. This one hasn't solved all the problems, but if given the option of the old calendar, students would stick with this one," Hall says...
With exams after Christmas, "there was a lot of make-up exams and incompletes, and enrollment definitely dropped after the vacation," she adds, explaining why many students prefer the new system. A poll taken two years ago indicated that people liked the calendar, Lobley says...
...remaining institutions that still follows the traditional calendar, plans to change to the new schedule in two years, school officials...
Everyone is generally optimistic that this new calendar will be better, she says. But she adds that starting in 1988-89 there will be no reading period and the Jewish holidays will no longer be official school holidays...