A Different Kind of Friday University of Mobile gives faculty and staff members the equivalent of Fridays off - By Greg Toppo, Inside Higher Ed

For more than a year, the University of Mobile has given faculty and staff members the equivalent of Fridays off, with a 35-hour week (the same number of hours as before) that shifts classes to a Monday-Thursday schedule and encourages students to spend Fridays volunteering, working at internships or mentoring and performing community service. Nonfaculty employees also enjoy four-day schedules but rotate days off. Of course, a few students take the opportunity to sleep late, said Provost Chris McCaghren. That’s fine, he said. “That’s a benefit, in their minds.” But McCaghren (pronounced "McCaren"), who proposed “Focus Fridays,” stressed that these are not simply days off. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/05/04/focus-fridays-alabama-university-offer-four-day-weeks