Friday-Only Classes? Why?

A brief note from The Greentree Gazette about some campuses which find offering some Friday-only classes to be beneficial:

Coming to campus only one day a week is beneficial for students who can arrange a four-day work week with their own employers. All students can benefit from using less gas and driving time to and from campus. Aiken Technical College began Friday-only classes in 2006 to help students deal with $3/gallon gas prices. When prices spiked higher in summer 2008, Volunteer State and J. Sargeant Reynolds began offering Friday-only classes for the same reason.

Mixing it up is popular

Campuses have learned that Friday-only classes can also be used by students in conjunction with other courses they’re taking. "Some students want to cut their number of trips from five days a week to three," says Nannette Smith, associate vice president of academic affairs at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. Alice Frye, dean of allied health at Aiken Technical College, says the motivation to offer some courses only on Friday was to minimize the student time on campus rather than eliminate Monday through Thursday classes altogether.