Elizabethtown CommÂunity and Technical College will transition to an eight-week class schedule this fall. According to a news release, beginning fall 2021, 8-Week Advantage reorganizes the academic calendar into five eight-week sessions. The fall and spring semesters will have two eight-week sessions, and one eight-week session will be offered in the summer. College President Juston Pate said around three years ago, while traveling to various conferences, he began hearing about student success from schools who adopted some type of compressed schedule. About two years ago, Pate said he began talking to people about the schedule at the college and asked them to do some research. The college began hearing feedback from people at the school about a year ago.