CRETE, Neb. (AP) - Doane College in Crete has taken steps to increase academic rigor by eliminating the three-week interterm courses next school year.
Dean of academic affairs John Burney told the Lincoln Journal Star that (https://bit.ly/1gbskpf ) that the interterm was created more than 40 years ago as a way to get students into some interdisciplinary education, with courses and topics they usually wouldn’t take during a semester.
Over time the courses became less about the classes and more about the extracurricular activities that accompanied the three-week stretch.
Doane wants to move away from the party culture the interterm became known for. Officials plan to eliminate the three-week interterm courses and replacing them with a semester-long liberal arts seminar for freshmen, sophomores and juniors.
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Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, https://www.journalstar.com
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