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IX. Summary and Conclusions


The Summer Quarter Committee has evaluated the possibility of enhancing student access in the present University physical plant by increasing student and faculty participation during the summer. A gradual phased reorganization of the present self-sustaining Summer Quarter is recommended. The time required for this transformation is unclear at present, and it is the view of the committee that a rapid and wholesale conversion of the present Summer Quarter to a fully regular Summer Quarter would not now succeed. Rather, budgetary, social, and political forces do not exist in today's climate to effect successfully a cultural change of this magnitude. When such pressures do materialize, driven largely by significantly increased numbers of students wishing to gain an education at the University of Washington, it will be appropriate to regularize the Summer Quarter.

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