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@mehitobel
Yeah, per my pinned post, I’m pretty hard core on the idea that everyone should get some kind of liberal arts education at some point in their life.

Tragically, Macalester did away with J-term in the late 90s back when I was a student. Apparently it was really miserable for the faculty, and now that I’m teaching, I can see why: no recovery time, no time to prepare for spring semester, not enough time to run a whole course but also too much to just wing it….

I’m always angling to bring back J-term in some form — not necessarily the “January” part, but the space for weird and experimental not-quite-course-shaped things.