Four Day Weeks at Flagship Southwest Schools

Links to spreadsheets showing the percentage of courses that meet on Friday are given below. Four schools do respectably in the traditional way (over half the time using MWF classes), Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri. The rest of the schools are significantly lower, ranging from 42 to 32 percent. While this is evidence of considerable growth of MW classes, these schools still have class on Friday much more than most schools in the Ivy League and some of the elite liberal arts schools. While the flagship schools are not as selective as the more elite schools they are more selective than other state schools and they seem to be resisting the four day week. I have already documented some very poor use of Fridays at some more common state schools, esp. in California where we have nearly the lowest flagship school, UCLA.  Still, I think it noteworthy to see the more selective state schools are doing better at preserving Friday as a class day. This suggests that they believe that class on Friday is important even if you have strong students.

U of Arkansas F13 51% courses have class on Friday

U of Arizona F13 41 % courses have class on Friday

U of California Los Angeles F12 32% courses have class on Friday

U of Colorado_F13 55 % courses have class on Friday

U of Kansas F13 51% courses have class on Friday

U of Louisiana F13 42% courses have class on Friday

U of Missouri F13 52% courses have class on Friday

U of Nevada S14 31% courses have class on Friday

U of New Mexico_F13 39 % courses have class on Friday

U of Oklahoma F13 40% courses have class on Friday

U of Texas F13 41% courses have class on Friday

U of Utah F13  35% courses have class on Friday