Priorities? UMD is clearing the campus of academic activities to make way for football games....

[Anonymous]

They are literally cancelling classes... for football.

https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2019/07/u-md-to-cancel-classes-clear-campus-before-penn-state-football-game/

[Anonymous]

Many Friday classes are already conducted online.

[Anonymous]

Good for them. Go Terps! Make the school more about community than a fee for service.

[Anonymous]

For a crappy football team, UMD goes to a lot of trouble to accommodate them.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, not too crazy about it but it’s friday afternoon only. Let’s not overreact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many Friday classes are already conducted online.

Really? Why?

[Anonymous]

My school (a SUNY) didn't even have classes on Friday afternoons. The late MWF classes were only MW and extended to the same length as the Tu-Th classes. And we didn't even have a football team to speak of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Friday classes are already conducted online.

Really? Why?

Not sure what pp was referring to but it’s not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Friday classes are already conducted online.

Really? Why?

Not sure what pp was referring to but it’s not true.

My husband is a professor there. It is certainly true for many humanities department classes for all but 400-level classes. Typically the class meets 3x per week; 2x in person and 1x online. Strong pressure on faculty to include the online component in his department. Faculty handle it differently.

Some post a brief video and then students react or discuss via a Facebook-type interface. Others use it to reinforce subjects students may have struggled with in a recent exam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Friday classes are already conducted online.

Really? Why?

Not sure what pp was referring to but it’s not true.

My husband is a professor there. It is certainly true for many humanities department classes for all but 400-level classes. Typically the class meets 3x per week; 2x in person and 1x online. Strong pressure on faculty to include the online component in his department. Faculty handle it differently.

Some post a brief video and then students react or discuss via a Facebook-type interface. Others use it to reinforce subjects students may have struggled with in a recent exam.

Interesting..my DD is about to apply. Not exactly a plus..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Friday classes are already conducted online.

Really? Why?

Not sure what pp was referring to but it’s not true.

My husband is a professor there. It is certainly true for many humanities department classes for all but 400-level classes. Typically the class meets 3x per week; 2x in person and 1x online. Strong pressure on faculty to include the online component in his department. Faculty handle it differently.

Some post a brief video and then students react or discuss via a Facebook-type interface. Others use it to reinforce subjects students may have struggled with in a recent exam.

Interesting. Not the case on STEM side of umd

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Friday classes are already conducted online.

Really? Why?

Not sure what pp was referring to but it’s not true.

My husband is a professor there. It is certainly true for many humanities department classes for all but 400-level classes. Typically the class meets 3x per week; 2x in person and 1x online. Strong pressure on faculty to include the online component in his department. Faculty handle it differently.

Some post a brief video and then students react or discuss via a Facebook-type interface. Others use it to reinforce subjects students may have struggled with in a recent exam.

Interesting..my DD is about to apply. Not exactly a plus..

My kids are at three different universities, and they've all had classes, or at least parts of classes, that were conducted online. A number of schools we toured also did not have class on Fridays at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Friday classes are already conducted online.

Really? Why?

Not sure what pp was referring to but it’s not true.

My husband is a professor there. It is certainly true for many humanities department classes for all but 400-level classes. Typically the class meets 3x per week; 2x in person and 1x online. Strong pressure on faculty to include the online component in his department. Faculty handle it differently.

Some post a brief video and then students react or discuss via a Facebook-type interface. Others use it to reinforce subjects students may have struggled with in a recent exam.

Interesting..my DD is about to apply. Not exactly a plus..

Something to ask about on tours, particularly at large universities. This doesn't happen at my kid's LAC.

I'm the UMd prof's spouse. One thing to consider - in this scenario, the student is getting content from the actual professor 3x per week. In the past, that 3rd class was be a discussion section led by a graduate student TA.

[Anonymous]

Professor’s spouse lady is not doing UMD any favor. Are you sure this is not your DH’s Dept only?

[Anonymous]

What did you expect from a college that allows its footballers to die?!?