Professors Enjoying the Changes

by Zora Fiset Morin

This school’s semester marks a new start for not only 4C’s students but professors as well. This semester is the first semester that the campus is going back to a somewhat normal setting since the pandemic. Most professors have been using Zoom to teach their classroom and help.

This year’s classes are back to the original classroom settings with the option of HyFlex classes. According to Patrick Stone in Spring 2022, the campus had 75 in-person classes and 326 classes that had online components (148 remote, 113 online, 39 HyFlex, and 26 hybrid). This fall, we have 98 in-person classes and 272 classes that have online components (105 online, 77 HyFlex, 74 remote, 16 hybrid). Increasing the number of in-person classes as well as HyFlex classes allows students to switch from online meetings to in-person.

A new Science building was also added to the middle of campus changing some of the professor’s original classroom setting. Statistics professor George Bent recently had his classroom transferred into the new Science building. Professor Bent explained how the new Science building has bigger white boards going from wall to wall, as well as having spacious and comfortable classrooms. He also explains how the new building’s air conditioning makes a difference.

“I like the air conditioning. At the beginning of the fall Semester and in the summer, the old building could get very hot and humid,” says Bent.

Professor Etter also been relocated to the new Science building and shares thoughts with professor Bent. Last year she only exclusively taught through Zoom, compared to this semester where she teaches both through Zoom and in-person.

“It has wonderful natural lighting, easy access to the rest of campus, very clean, comfortable and well equipped. The labs, offices, study spaces and drinking water refill stations are perfect,” says Etter.

Photo taken by Zora Fiset Morin

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