1. Please click here to download a PDF file of a 5 year general academic calendar (Fall 2005 - Summer 2010).
   
   

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2. For term specific dates click here for the term calendars published in the Colonels Compass.
   

Fall Semester

• Begins the first Monday on or after the faculty contract period begins but no earlier than August 20 to allow for faculty to return and advise.
• There is a holiday on Labor Day. In order to make up for the lost class for 3 credit hour classes meeting only once a week on Mondays, those classes will be scheduled an additional 15 minutes per week.
• There is a "Fall Break" on Columbus Day and the following Tuesday, or during a presidential election year a Break that includes the Monday before and election day.
• Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving week are holidays.
• Classes end on the Friday 16 weeks after the beginning of classes.
• Finals are the following week.
• Graduation will be the Saturday of Finals Week.

Spring Semester

• Classes begin the third Monday of January or the subsequent Tuesday if that Monday is Martin Luther King Day.
• There is a holiday for Martin Luther King Day. (There is no longer a Presidents' Day holiday) In order to make up the lost class for 3 credit hour classes meeting only once a week on Mondays, those classes will be scheduled an additional 15 minutes per week.
• A spring break will occur the second full week in March.
• Classes end on the Friday 16 weeks after the beginning of classes.
• Finals are the following week.
• Graduation will be the Saturday of Finals week. That Saturday will be the Saturday a week after Derby Day.

This leaves 13-14 weeks between the end of Spring semester and the beginning of Fall. The Summer session will fall within that time.