Academic Quarter

Academic quarter may refer to:

  • Academic quarter (year division), a division of the university academic year into four periods, typically 10 weeks long, in the United States and some other countries
  • Academic quarter (class timing), a quarter-hour transition period offered to students at some European educational institutions for them to travel between class locations

Famous quotes containing the words academic and/or quarter:

    I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.
    Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)

    Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)