Summer Daze

Of late, Yeshiva College has begun stepping up the stringency of its policies governing transfer credit acceptance. These policies, if motivated by concern for the quality of student education, are laudable, even necessary, despite the inconveniences they pose for students who wish to complete summer course work. Regrettably, there is little reason to believe that the present transfer credit restrictions are anything more than a stingy, rather wealthy, institution's effort to sickeningly squeeze students for a few more dollars.

But, let us assume that the administration does indeed harbor sincere intentions with reference to its credit transfer policy. It would follow that a concerned university would offer an abundant array of summer courses to assure that its students are afforded an opportunity to eschew the academic defilement of "lesser," unapproved institutions.

Of course, Yeshiva, with its paltry six official summer course offerings, does not seem at all interested in fulfilling the lofty academic claims it makes. Appallingly, all but two of the scheduled summer classes were dropped two weeks before they were to begin last year, leaving students who had arranged their breaks around Yeshiva summer school in the lurch.

We believe that it is eminently reasonable to expect that the University maintain some semblance of consistency in the administration of its policies. If it is this institution's intention to bolster academic standards by assuring that students exclusively enroll in demanding courses during the summer months, then it must provide a means by which this end might be attained. In the absence of such a University effort, the present credit transfer policies are surely folly and Yeshiva's commitment to academic integrity suspect.