• Winter 1: December 18 – January 17 (5 weeks, online only)
• Winter 2: January 2 – January 17 (2 weeks, hybrid, face-to-face, online)

Specific dates vary by session. Students must refer to the J-session calendar for details.

Students must be in good standing (as noted on their unofficial transcript or in Degree Works) and may enroll in a maximum of 4 credits during J-session.

The Office of Student Records will monitor enrollments exceeding 4 credits and alert the student and Assistant Deans by 100% drop date. 

Winter sessions are part of Spring 2025. The 4 credits count towards the total Spring flat rate or overage.

As part of Spring 2025 aid packaging, J-sessions are not separate aid terms; no additional aid will be awarded.

Students with enough anticipated aid posted for Spring 2025 to cover their entire (flat rate) balance for the Spring semester and the Winter Session will not incur additional billing.

Students will need to plan accordingly for purchasing textbooks for the Winter Session. See note below for faculty who plan to teach.

• Winter 1 (5 weeks, 21 weekdays excluding holidays): 143 minutes/day (2 hours 23 mins)

MTWRF
8:30 – 11:23 am
11:30 am – 2:23 pm
2:30 – 5:23 pm
5:30 – 8:23 pm

• Winter 2 (2 weeks, 12 weekdays): 250 minutes/day (4 hours 10 mins)

MTWRF
8:30 – 12:40 pm
1:00 pm – 5:10 pm
5:30 – 9:40 pm

Full-time faculty will propose J-session courses for Chairs and Assistant Deans to review before finalizing the schedule.

J-session courses are not for everyone. Students should refrain from re-attempting in 5 weeks, for example, any 15-week course during which they struggled with deadlines and workload.

Based on Faculty Senate feedback, the pilot is restricted to full-time
faculty members who feel confident that their proposed course will
lend itself to the compressed time frames in J-session

Faculty Senate members supported J-sessions to enhance experiences like faculty-led tours and lab research projects.

Master Agreement applies for in-load and overload. For the pilot, only full-time faculty will be eligible to offer J-session courses. Provost and deans will consider running lower-than-usually-enrolled section sizes.

Faculty can propose courses now. Winter 1 must be online due to holiday closures. Faculty-led travel, credit-bearing internships and/or experiential
learning may work best in expedited Winter 2

Academic engagement (formerly roster verification) is a vital
component of this very compressed time period. Considered part of
spring term, J-session attendance will impact financial aid eligibility,
so faculty members must be attentive to verifying engagement as soon
as the requests arrive.

Mid-semester progress will not be part of the first J-session pilot. 

Yes. Financial aid may not be disbursed in time for Winter sessions, and students may face challenges paying for textbooks.

Visit Stockton University's extensive OER resources for more information. 

Winter 1 (5 weeks) is better for a full 4-credit course, while Winter 2 (2 weeks) suits shorter, experiential activities like a lab experiment or 1-credit research project or faculty-led study excursion.