New schedule

Class time revised for Fall 2015

Following a number of changes on campus in the 2014-2015 academic year, residential students will see more modifications in the upcoming one as well, including no longer having to face dreaded 7:40 a.m. classes.

According to a new schedule for the 2015-2016 school year released by the Registrar’s Office, classes that take place Monday, Wednesday and Friday will still be 50 minutes long, and Tuesday/Thursday classes will remain one hour and 15 minutes each.

Additionally, the first class session each day will begin at 8:15 a.m. Furthermore, the time between classes has been reduced from 20 minutes to 15.

“I think the biggest advantage is for having classes later in the day,” Luke Gentala, university registrar, said. “I think just looking statistically, it is much harder for students to make it to a 7:40 class (than) in an 8:15 class. Originally, when we were discussing moving it back to 8, it came up that, ‘Well, if we’re going to move it to 8, why not 8:15? That’s much more convenient for students.’”

Monday/Wednesday/Friday classes next year will take place at 8:15-9:05 a.m., 9:20-10:10 a.m., 12-12:50 p.m., 1:05-1:55 p.m., 2:10-3 p.m., 3:15-4:05 p.m. and 4:20-5:05 p.m.

Tuesday/Thursday classes will take place at 8:15-9:30 a.m., 9:45-11 a.m., 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 12:45-2 p.m., 2:15-3:30 p.m. and 3:45-5 p.m.

According to Gentala, evening classes, one-day-a-week classes or other classes that do not fit into the regular, three-times-a-week or two-times-a-week classes will not be affected by the schedule change.

“Those are outside of our block scheduling,” Gentala said. “We kind of handle those on a case-by-case basis already. … Depending on the needs from semester to semester, those already change based on both student demands and scheduling conflicts.”

The plan for a schedule change is something that had been brought up at multiple levels within the administration, including the registrar, the provost and the presidential level.

“It is … something we have wanted to do to help our students at Liberty,” Gentala said.

BROWN is the editor-in-chief.

JANNEY is the asst. news editor.