Scheduling conflict cause long waits
There is too much time on the hands of various technology students.
Students in the Architecture program at Fanshawe College have been faced with some inconvenient and questionable time gaps within their schedule for this current winter academic term.
The issue was raised in a Student Advisory Council meeting held on February 20 by the Building Technology/Manufacturing Technology SAC representative James Millistver.
Millistver said particularly in the architecture program, students are left with up to four hour-long gaps between classes. Millistver said the gaps are very inconvenient, especially to students who commute to Fanshawe and live a fair distance from campus.
“For people living off-campus it is really tough,” said Millistver, who lives off-campus and is faced with the four-hour long gap in his Wednesday class schedule.
“It is a big problem for people with part-time jobs as well, they could be working during this time. It would be nice in the schedules were more balanced and evened out in the future in order to make everyone happier.”
Millistver said students often use the time gaps to catch up on homework, but it is not the most ideal situation.
A new computer system was implemented last semester to help with the scheduling of classes in nearly every program at the College, and according to the Dean of the Faculty of Technology Rod Cameron, the system is still in need of improvement.
“As we grow the system grows and we are working our strategies to improve it and make it better,” Cameron said. “The College committee, consisting of academic managers, in charge of scheduling has priorities on how the schedules are built. We appreciate the issue that it is not convenient for everyone, but is the top priority to make the best possible class schedule for the students at the College.”
Cameron said that teacher availability and classroom availability play a significant role in class scheduling, specifically in the Faculty of Technology.
Cameron said students should utilize the time gaps to finish homework.
“Students should look at it like a forty-hour work week at school. If they work diligently, they could conceivably have no work on weekends.”
President of the FSU Christine Thomson said the new computer system implemented for class scheduling is still working out its glitches. “The system just started so there are always things that are going to go wrong with it,” Thomson said.
Thomson said that Fanshawe has a list of guidelines that they are trying to follow with the scheduling of classes but said it is unfortunate if a student in a certain program are the groups that get the long breaks.
“It does suck to have the big long breaks, unless you are one of those people that are like ‘sweet a three hour long break, now I can go study for three hours' unless you can do that, then it is the worst.”
Thomson said that she had not received any complaints this academic year from any other students from any other program or division, excluding the aforementioned technology students.
Students in the Architecture program at Fanshawe College have been faced with some inconvenient and questionable time gaps within their schedule for this current winter academic term.
The issue was raised in a Student Advisory Council meeting held on February 20 by the Building Technology/Manufacturing Technology SAC representative James Millistver.
Millistver said particularly in the architecture program, students are left with up to four hour-long gaps between classes. Millistver said the gaps are very inconvenient, especially to students who commute to Fanshawe and live a fair distance from campus.
“For people living off-campus it is really tough,” said Millistver, who lives off-campus and is faced with the four-hour long gap in his Wednesday class schedule.
“It is a big problem for people with part-time jobs as well, they could be working during this time. It would be nice in the schedules were more balanced and evened out in the future in order to make everyone happier.”
Millistver said students often use the time gaps to catch up on homework, but it is not the most ideal situation.
A new computer system was implemented last semester to help with the scheduling of classes in nearly every program at the College, and according to the Dean of the Faculty of Technology Rod Cameron, the system is still in need of improvement.
“As we grow the system grows and we are working our strategies to improve it and make it better,” Cameron said. “The College committee, consisting of academic managers, in charge of scheduling has priorities on how the schedules are built. We appreciate the issue that it is not convenient for everyone, but is the top priority to make the best possible class schedule for the students at the College.”
Cameron said that teacher availability and classroom availability play a significant role in class scheduling, specifically in the Faculty of Technology.
Cameron said students should utilize the time gaps to finish homework.
“Students should look at it like a forty-hour work week at school. If they work diligently, they could conceivably have no work on weekends.”
President of the FSU Christine Thomson said the new computer system implemented for class scheduling is still working out its glitches. “The system just started so there are always things that are going to go wrong with it,” Thomson said.
Thomson said that Fanshawe has a list of guidelines that they are trying to follow with the scheduling of classes but said it is unfortunate if a student in a certain program are the groups that get the long breaks.
“It does suck to have the big long breaks, unless you are one of those people that are like ‘sweet a three hour long break, now I can go study for three hours' unless you can do that, then it is the worst.”
Thomson said that she had not received any complaints this academic year from any other students from any other program or division, excluding the aforementioned technology students.
