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:

    Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.
    Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)

    I was able to believe for years that going to Madame Swann’s was a vague chimera that I would never attain; after having passed a quarter of an hour there, it was the time at which I did not know her which became to me a chimera and vague, as a possible destroyed by another possible.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)