{"527341":{"#nid":"527341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Spring Semester Brings New Finals Schedule","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis semester, Tech students get a little more time during finals week to prepare for their exams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Academic Calendar was altered last year to replace Dead Week with Final Instructional Class Days and Reading Periods. Final Instructional Class Days and Reading Periods have been incorporated into final exams to break up the week, allow for a conflict period at the end, and provide a buffer before Commencement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring 2016 end of semester schedule is as follows:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EApril 25-26: Final Instructional Class Days.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EApril 27: Reading Period (no exams).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EApril 28: Reading Period from 8 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. (no exams).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EApril 28: Finals begin in the afternoon.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMay 3: Reading Period from 8 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. (no exams). Finals resume in the afternoon.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMay 5: Final exams end.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen the Academic Calendar Task Force looked at peer and University System of Georgia (USG) institutions, Georgia Tech was one of the few universities that did not already have a reading period of this kind.\u0026nbsp;In many cases, Tech students were found to spend more time in class than at peer and USG institutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe fact is that Georgia Tech students spend a lot of time in school,\u201d said Laura Margaret Burbach, former vice president of Academic Affairs for the Student Government Association (SGA). Burbach participated in the task force and helped draft a white paper from SGA on the topic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther recent changes to the Academic Calendar include the addition of class holidays around July 4 and Thanksgiving and a new guideline for when to begin the Spring semester.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/04\/13\/task-force-suggests-changes-academic-calendar\u0022\u003ELearn more about the task force and the recommendations it made in April 2015.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sga.gatech.edu\/ug\/executive\/academic-affairs\/finals-academic-calendar-changes-spring-2016\/\u0022\u003ESee a Spring 2016 finals schedule provided by the Student Government Association.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Academic Calendar was altered last year to replace Dead Week with Final Instructional Class Days and Reading Periods.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Academic Calendar was altered last year to replace Dead Week with Final Instructional Class Days and Reading Periods."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2016-04-21 09:40:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:25","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"521291":{"id":"521291","type":"image","title":"Calendar","body":null,"created":"1459789200","gmt_created":"2016-04-04 17:00:00","changed":"1475895289","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:49","alt":"Calendar","file":{"fid":"205326","name":"calendar.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/calendar.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/calendar.png","mime":"image\/png","size":233159,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/calendar.png?itok=ezonzTck"}}},"media_ids":["521291"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/registrar.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the Registrar"},{"url":"http:\/\/sga.gatech.edu\/ug\/executive\/academic-affairs\/finals-academic-calendar-changes-spring-2016\/","title":"Finals Schedule from SGA"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"61451","name":"Academic Calendar"},{"id":"1766","name":"final exams"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}