By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — HutchCC spokesperson Denny Stoecklein said the spring semester is headed down the backstretch.
"We're only four weeks away, really," Stoecklein said. "Commencement is on April 30th. One of the adjustments we made last fall was to eliminate spring break and move up the end of the semester by a week. Four weeks from this Friday, we're graduating and finals are over and the kids are finished."
Given the short period, it doesn't make sense to change procedure.
"It's the same as its been since August, which really wasn't drastically different as far as delivery method of courses. The vast majority of them are in person. We've made adjustments within classrooms and using facilities as classrooms that were never classrooms before, because they're larger and allow us to distance more students."
Students have overwhelmingly said they want to be in person.
"Most every college has offered online classes for years, for decades," Stoecklein said. "That delivery method has always been there for us. What we were seeing throughout the summer was between 60 and 70% of the credit hours our students enrolled in were face to face classes. They wanted to be in the classroom."
Stoecklein praised the staff and students for adjusting and also thanked Medicine Shoppe for making the Pfizer vaccine available to faculty and employees at the college.
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