{"id":60490,"date":"2025-07-12T20:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60490\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T20:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T20:49:20","slug":"problems-with-quarter-system-at-uc-schools-were-clear-from-the-start-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60490\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with quarter system at UC schools were clear from the start \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading \u201cUniversity of California looks at adopting semesters at all schools\u201d (July 2) brought back memories of when I entered UC Berkeley in fall 1966 as an undergraduate architecture major, encountering the then-brand-new quarter system.<\/p>\n<p>As I recall, the big selling point was offering four full quarters of instruction each academic year to accommodate more students; we were told we could select any three quarters we preferred during each academic year. However, like most entering California high school students, I was accustomed to two semesters and a months-long summer break. I was not alone; only Berkeley and UCLA ever offered a summer quarter, and those campuses reverted to minimal summer sessions after three years. UC Berkeley wisely reverted to semesters in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>I would have greatly preferred to take the deeper dives that semesters would have offered, particularly in design classes, instead of the short quarters I had to rush through.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fred Baron, Carmel Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading \u201cUniversity of California looks at adopting semesters at all schools\u201d (July 2) brought back memories of when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-60490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114842236570468949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}