The vote, on a friendly amendment substituted for the proposal of the Institute Calendar Committee, came with the understanding that IAP would be lengthened to all the days of the full weeks in January and that departments could offer one course for credit during IAP under the oversight of the faculty committee structure. Under the new calendar, registration day in the fall is the first Tuesday after Labor Day.
Classes start the next day.
In those years two holidays would be dropped, and the fall reading period would be three days. Commencement would be held on a Friday between June 3 and 9. IAP will have 19 class days under the new calendar. It is anticipated that these subjects might not be offered during regular term times. Professor Jaffe, speaking at the meeting in support of the substitute calendar plan, said it was a compromise between the interim calendar the the Calendar Committee proposal.