Spring Break
Turner responds to task force report
Jordan Hofeditz, Editor in Chief, jhofedit@smu.edu
Issue date: 4/29/08 Section: News
President Turner accepted each of the six academic recommendations.
That means a mandatory attendance policy, increased classes on Friday, limiting the number of courses a student can drop, revising curricula to ensure that for every hour spent in class two hours are spent on work outside of class, providing midterm reports to students in their first two years of school and giving a comprehensive final exam for all lower-division courses.
Lighting will be increased on campus to make it a safer place, and more late-night, on-campus activities during the week and on weekends will be added. This will hopefully discourage people from always going out to party on the weekends, according to the report.
President Turner also accepted the recommendation to encourage Greek organizations to hold only off-campus "bus parties" on the weekends and not on school days, as well as making "all events associated with recruitment into Greek organizations alcohol-free, including off-campus events on weekends."
President Turner will address these as well as the rest of his decisions today at 2 p.m. in the Hughes-Trigg Theater.
That means a mandatory attendance policy, increased classes on Friday, limiting the number of courses a student can drop, revising curricula to ensure that for every hour spent in class two hours are spent on work outside of class, providing midterm reports to students in their first two years of school and giving a comprehensive final exam for all lower-division courses.
Lighting will be increased on campus to make it a safer place, and more late-night, on-campus activities during the week and on weekends will be added. This will hopefully discourage people from always going out to party on the weekends, according to the report.
President Turner also accepted the recommendation to encourage Greek organizations to hold only off-campus "bus parties" on the weekends and not on school days, as well as making "all events associated with recruitment into Greek organizations alcohol-free, including off-campus events on weekends."
President Turner will address these as well as the rest of his decisions today at 2 p.m. in the Hughes-Trigg Theater.
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