Assigned Entry #3

Whoever is the PR for ASU is really doing a good job by throwing out a few hot keywords to catch a regular person's eye, so they need to be commended for their skill.

SHORTER CLASSES

CHEAPER TUITION

GRADUATE QUICKER

These are some of the words that will practically pop up off the page for someone who is use to the cost of college and the amount of time they have to put into school

Shorter Classes? With ASU trying to lure in people with shorter classes, I'm really trying to see who it is benefiting in the long run. Sure you may be able to get out of the school by a whole year earlier than you had, but are you able to recall something that you learned in the year previous from one of those possibly vital classes that were cut from 15 weeks to only 7 1/2? Most likely not. Now take the number of classes you are doing under the new short course lineup and multiply that with the amount of hours there are in the day and see how much time you have for a feasible chance of getting a good grade through every single class on top of sleeping. Even more so if you are doing back to back during a single Fall semester or Spring semester.

Cheaper Tuition? I don't see anywhere in this where it states how they are going to be cutting down the amount of tuition that goes towards the classes. The only way it seems cheaper to me would be how they are basically forcing the teachers to do double the work for the same amount of hours in a single Fall semester. Take a single English 101 course in the 15 week variety, that teacher is teaching 40 some people and they get a full 15 weeks to explain the steps of their curriculum. Now take that English 101 course and cut it down to a 7 1/2 week version and that teacher is teaching the condensed crash course version of their previous curriculum, but the plus side to this...? 80 students! ASU is going to be the only one that is making money off this shorter classes idea since they are able to bring in more students to a single course per semester per teacher for the same salary.

Graduate Quicker? At what cost? If you did as many of these shorter class courses as possible, you are setting yourself up for maybe remembering a cliffs notes version of all the classes that you took. This will send you out to the workforce sooner, but you might have to spend a lot of your catching up since something that is important might have only been a small highlight in one of the classes you took.

All in all it's a fantastic way to cut some of the time that you spend in college to a bare minimum. If someone is actually considering taking one of these classes they need to be honest with themselves about the amount of time they are able to afford to the class or else they'll be spending double the tuition in retaking the courses.