After all this years, they are now changing the policy. Hopefully those need to go between campuses would be fine.
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2018/02/what_is_michigan_time_and_why.html
Honestly, I don’t know why but I think this is gonna really hurt commuter kids, like me. And it might just eradicate the 10 min initiative altogether. Even though they’re saying class is gonna end 10 minutes early most teachers will probably continue teaching… what say? any other opinions on this…
I don’t think this would hurt commuter kids in particular. It is mainly a problem for students going between campuses for classes (mostly music school and engineering students). I agree that the ending 10 minutes earlier would not work.
At every college I’ve taught at, class begins on the hour and lasts fifty minutes (at least for MWF classes ). It sounds like Michigan is just switching to ending ten minutes early instead of starting ten minutes late. I’m pretty confident the faculy will be able to adjust. 
The way I read it, it’s the same ten minutes just in a different place. So wouldn’t it be the same time commuting between classes that they have now? It seemed to be more of a cool Michigan thing anyway. Didn’t really change much in the grand scheme of things.
Change is hard. Period. (No one can objectively say that it is easier to divide by 12 than by 10, but we still refuse to use the metric system:)
“Officials noted that many of the university’s units are on “clock time” for faculty and staff meetings and Michigan Time for classes, which causes confusion and friction. ”
So much for tradition!
Basically, they just need to move the schedule up 10 min and there should be no difference. However, to ask the instructor/professor to end the class 10min early is more difficult to make them start 10min late.
I have to disagree with that. I really am not seeing the problem. At the college I teach at now, we went through a huge change several years ago when we dropped from 60/90 to 50/75. It completely changed the schedule around (even more so since we have 15 minutes between classes) and I don’t remember a single problem. And to elaborate, due to the 15 minutes between classes, classes on MWF are now 8:00 -8:50, 9:05 -9:55, 10:10 -11:00, 11:15, etc. You tell me when to be in class, I’ll be there. And it really is not any harder for a professor to end at, say, 10:50 versus 11:00. Students usually subtlely and not so subtllely give you hints if you’re going long anyway.
When I was in college decades ago, we needed to catch the bus on campus in between classes and the bus schedule sync with the class schedule. So we had to leave the class if it was overtime or we could not catch the bus. So the easiest way would be just shifting the class schedule down 10min which would make no difference as if it is in the old schedule and with the Michigan time in place.
I guess I should clarify why I think I would be impacted. I’m a part time student who is also working and completing an amazing internship in Livonia at the same time. So arriving 10 minutes late to my first class of the day means a lot to me. Getting let out 10 min early doesn’t really matter to me since I’m already there.