The types of courses offered, however, are not slated to change much. Leon Dorosz, acting associate vice president of curriculum and assessment, said that most of the same courses are planned to be offered in sessions of three, six, nine and 12 weeks. Complications in funding and the lateness of the change to year-round operation prohibited a real change for this summer, he said. The action was in response to the California State University, Noble said at the time. Increasing enrollment statewide and a desire to maximize resources on all campuses were some of the reasons cited by the mandate.
Future summers have yet to be decided as well.
A complete makeover in the academic year is still a possibility, Dorosz said. Many campuses, such as Sonoma State and San Francisco State, are on a semester system like that of San Jose State University, while CSU Hayward and California State at Los Angeles are on the quarter system. CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed said he would like to get all 23 campuses on the same academic schedule. Dorosz said he has heard arguments for every pattern. I've heard arguments for all of them.