Some Oklahoma colleges and universities are helping ease gas price woes by offering four-day workweeks, no classes on Friday and carpool benefits.
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Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant switched to a four-day workweek for a second summer. Employees work 10-hour days on Mondays through Thursday. There are no classes on Fridays.
Oklahoma State University in Stillwater considered the same format for employees but decided against the change this year because it might hurt enrollment work.
Some freshmen and transfer students attend Friday orientations in July and August.
Summer classes at OSU are offered four days a week, so commuting students do catch a break on Fridays.
OSU is looking at buying hybrid and other alternatively-fueled vehicles for campus use. Some bus routes between OSU's Stillwater and Tulsa campuses have been dropped.
Rose State College in Midwest City eliminated Friday classes starting with the spring semester, in part to help commuting students.
At Cameron University in Lawton and East Central University in Ada, officials have set up Web pages to link students and staff who want to carpool.
The ECU page asks students "What would you do with an extra $1,200 a year?” and touts the social aspect as well as the financial savings of carpooling.
At the University of Central Oklahoma, students who carpool and park in a high occupancy vehicle lot at least 50 times will get reimbursed for their parking permits.
The campus is open Monday through Friday, but summer classes are four days a week. About 60 percent of UCO-owned vehicles that use diesel can now run on biodiesel fuel made from recycled cooking grease.
Northwestern Oklahoma State University is reducing employee travel, requiring that all trips be vital to the university's operation.
Susan Simpson,
Staff Writer
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