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A Proposal for a Four-Day Academic Week
And an Optional Compatible Three-Day
Academic Weckend

T. M. Grieper

HE FOUR-DAY work week recently heralded by some as a

paral solution to economic problems and a boon to leisure-
nm .nded Americans has never appeared to be applicable to many
professional persons or to teachers in higher education, both of
whom feel that they squeeze as much work into a day under
present circumstances as is possible.

However, a four-day academic week has the potenual to better
utilize faculty time, chiefly by compartmentalizing activities and
compressing some of its functions without adding to the faculty
load or affecting the Iength of the term or faculty salanes. Simul-
taneously, it offers the luxury of a three-day weekend every week
for rejuvenation of the spirit, for personal study or research, or for
consulting or other outside professional employment which is some-
times in conflict with class schedules.

Specifically, the proposal is as follows: all classes and laboratory
sessions are to be scheduled over a consecutive four-day work week,
probably Monday through Thursday, with no teaching or institu-
Uon-related activities required of cither faculty or students on the
remaining three days. Under the semester system (it is equally
adaptable to the quarter system) with semesters of 15-week dura-
ion, each threc-credit course meets two days per week for 75
minutes.

A typical schedule would require a student carrying a full 15
credit hour load to attend classes for three hours and 45 minnates
on two days and for two hours and 30 minutes on the other two
days. A faculty member with a 12 hour teaching load would be

in the classroom for two hours and 30 minutes each day with the
remaining time unscheduled and a three-day weekend every week.

See ‘Table J. CONT'D