While some ASU students spent Winter Break resting, relaxing and visiting with family, more than 2,000 others took advantage of the opportunity to earn three credits in Winter Session, generating an enrollment increase for the fifth straight year. This program is a unique opportunity to provide our students another option in achieving their academic goals. Winter Session's success is an achievement that can be shared with many ASU departments and employees. It is truly a collaborative effort reaching from the president and provost's offices to individual ASU colleges, campuses, faculty and employees. Winter Session is a condensed session offered between fall and spring semesters.
Students enroll in one course to earn three semester hours, which are recorded on fall transcripts.
During the first session in 1996, more than 800 students took advantage of the 22 classes available during Winter Session. For the 2000-01 Winter Session, participation increased to 2,076 students choosing from 53 courses. Winter Session courses vary from general studies to electives to major requirements. Seventy students were able to graduate in the fall 2000 semester because of the credits they earned during Winter Session. When the program was designed, it was expected that most Winter Session students would be seniors needing the credits for graduation, but, as the program grows, more and more freshmen and sophomores are attending, trying to shorten the amount of time it will take them to graduate.