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News | 4/3/08
Full-time students to take nine credits during 10-week trimester pilot
Full-time students enrolled in the University's 10-week pilot trimester program this summer will be required to take a minimum of nine credits, according to dean of the College of Health Professions and chairperson of the trimester committee Charlotte Exner.
She said the proposal has received approval at all internal levels. In the next week Exner will know if the University System of Maryland accepts the proposal.
Students enrolled full time may take up to 15 credits before paying additional costs per credit. In-state students enrolled full time will pay $2,025 tuition along with fees. Out-of-state students will pay $5,292 and fees.
"Summer is about three-quarters of the length of the fall or the spring, so the costs and credits for full-time students are proportional," Exner said.
Towson President Robert Caret said the committee is also looking at how to properly compensate faculty teaching during the trimester. He said the University hopes to entice tenured and tenure-track faculty to teach during the summer by paying higher stipends per course.
"We need to have more core faculty there," Caret said. "We can't go through the summer with only adjunct faculty teaching."
Exner said the committee has yet to determine what an instructor would receive for teaching a course during the trimester. She hopes to have final word on these issues in the next few weeks.
-- Kiel McLaughlin
Caret confident bill affecting MBA program will not pass legislature
Senate Bill 49, concerning duplicative programs at state universities, was scheduled for legislation Tuesday, but committee sponsor Senator Joan Conway of the 43rd district requested the hearing pushed back until Friday.
If passed, the bill would force the Maryland Higher Educational Commission to determine whether or not specific programs at state universities are unnecessarily duplicative. Towson's masters in business administration program would fall under those programs reviewed.
Full-time students enrolled in the University's 10-week pilot trimester program this summer will be required to take a minimum of nine credits, according to dean of the College of Health Professions and chairperson of the trimester committee Charlotte Exner.
She said the proposal has received approval at all internal levels. In the next week Exner will know if the University System of Maryland accepts the proposal.
Students enrolled full time may take up to 15 credits before paying additional costs per credit. In-state students enrolled full time will pay $2,025 tuition along with fees. Out-of-state students will pay $5,292 and fees.
"Summer is about three-quarters of the length of the fall or the spring, so the costs and credits for full-time students are proportional," Exner said.
Towson President Robert Caret said the committee is also looking at how to properly compensate faculty teaching during the trimester. He said the University hopes to entice tenured and tenure-track faculty to teach during the summer by paying higher stipends per course.
"We need to have more core faculty there," Caret said. "We can't go through the summer with only adjunct faculty teaching."
Exner said the committee has yet to determine what an instructor would receive for teaching a course during the trimester. She hopes to have final word on these issues in the next few weeks.
-- Kiel McLaughlin
Caret confident bill affecting MBA program will not pass legislature
Senate Bill 49, concerning duplicative programs at state universities, was scheduled for legislation Tuesday, but committee sponsor Senator Joan Conway of the 43rd district requested the hearing pushed back until Friday.
If passed, the bill would force the Maryland Higher Educational Commission to determine whether or not specific programs at state universities are unnecessarily duplicative. Towson's masters in business administration program would fall under those programs reviewed.
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