Academic Administrative Calendar
2008-2009
4 Independence Day - Offices Closed
15 Mid-month payday
16-17 Trustees’ Meeting (Sheridan)
31 Issuance
of General Bulletin Departmental Work Copy from Registrar’s Office
31 End of month payday
8 Last day of Summer Session
1-17 Central Energy Plant Shutdown for
Annual Maintenance (tentative)
14 Summer
Session Grades due in Registrar’s Office by NOON
15 Mid-month payday
19 New Faculty reporting date
20-21 New Faculty Orientation
20-22
21 Returning Faculty reporting date
22 Registration
22 Residence Halls open and
check-in begins at 8am
Aug. 22- Weeks of Welcome
Activities
Sept 5
25 Classes Begin; Late registration and drop/add begins
25
25 Begin
Academic Year office hours
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
28 Last
day to drop or change sections for first-half block courses
29 Tuition and Fees Due - strictly
enforced
29 Last
day to add or change grading options for first-half block courses
29 Spring 2009 Class Schedule first draft to be loaded to
Banner by departments
29 End
of month payday
1 Labor
Day - Offices Closed & Classes Excused
4 Last day to drop or change sections in semester courses –
strictly enforced
5 Call for Sabbatical Nominations
8 Last
day to add, late register, or change grading options in semester courses –
strictly enforced
8 Last day to make changes to health
insurance selection
10,17,24
Department
Heads’ Workshops
11 President’s Fall Convocation
11-13 Trustees’ Meeting (
12 Call for Flittie Sabbatical
Nominations
13
15 Mid-month payday
25-26
26-28 Family Weekend
27 Ag Appreciation Day
29 Faculty Senate Meeting
30 Last
day to withdraw from courses which meet the first half of the semester
30 End of month payday
1 Material
Distributed for Faculty Award Nominations and Heywood Award Nominations
3 General Bulletin Copy “First
Draft” Due in Registrar’s Office
October 2008 (continued)
6 Issuance of Summer Bulletin
Departmental Work Copy from Registrar’s Office
10 A&S
Keith & Thyra Thomson Honors Convocation
11 Homecoming
15 Mid-month payday
15 Honorary
Degree Nominations Due
17 Mid-semester
22 Midterm Grades must be
submitted online by NOON
23 Last
day to drop or change sections for courses which meet the second half of the
semester
24 Last
day to add or change grading options for courses which meet the second half of
the semester
27 Faculty
Senate Meeting
27-31 Advising
Week – Classes Held
31 Last
day to withdraw from individual semester courses
31 End of month payday
3 Sabbatical
Leave Recommendations Due in Academic Affairs
3 Registration
for Spring 2009 begins for continuing students
3 Issuance of Fall ’09 Class Schedule Departmental Work Copy from
Registrar’s Office
3
5 Worksheets Distributed for Reappointments (Faculty and APs), Tenure and Tenure and Promotion Cases
7 Flittie
Sabbatical Nominations due in Academic Affairs by 5pm
13-15 Trustees’
Meeting (
14 Mid-month payday
15 Discovery Days
17 Last
day to withdraw from courses which meet the second half of the semester
24 Registration
for Spring 2009 begins for new or re-enrolling
students
24 Faculty Senate Meeting
25 Last
day to withdraw from the university for Fall 2008
26-28 Thanksgiving
Break - Classes Excused
27-28 Thanksgiving
26 End of month payday
5 Last
day of classes;
5 Summer
Bulletin first draft to be loaded to Banner by departments
5-6 Commencement
8 Faculty
Senate Meeting
8-12 Final Exams
10-19
13 Residence Halls close at 12pm
15 Mid-month payday
18 Final Grades must be
submitted online by NOON
24-25 Christmas
26-30 Winter Closure - Offices Closed
29 End of Month Payday
31 New Year's
January 2009
1 New Year's
5 Outreach
Grades for Distance Courses must be submitted online by NOON
9 Residence
Halls reopen at 8am
9 Fall 2009 Class Schedule
first draft to be loaded to Banner by departments
12 Registration; Classes begin; College of Law - Classes begin
15 Mid-month
payday
15 Last
day to drop for first-half block courses
16 Tuition and
Fee Payment Due – strictly enforced
16 Faculty
Award Nominations Due and Heywood Award Nominations Due
16 Last
day to add first-half block courses
19 Martin
Luther King, Jr. /
20 First
Year Reappointment Recommendations (Faculty and APs) Due in Deans' Offices
22 Last day to drop or change
sections in semester courses
22-24 Trustees’
Meeting (TBD)
26 Last day add, late register, or change
grading options in semester courses; last day to waive mandatory health insurance
26 Faculty
Senate Meeting
30 End
of month payday
30 First
Year Reappointment Recommendations (Faculty and APs) due in Academic Affairs
30 2nd,
3rd, 4th, and 5th year Reappointments (Faculty
and APs), Tenure and Tenure and Promotion Recommendations Due in Deans' Offices
10 Last day to withdraw from first-half block courses
13 Mid-month payday
21 Discovery
Days
23 Faculty Senate Meeting
27 End of month payday
2 2nd,
3rd, 4th, and 5th Year Reappointments (Faculty
and APs), Tenure and Tenure and Promotion Recommendations Due in Academic
Affairs
5-7 Trustees’
Meeting (
6 Mid-semester
11 Mid-semester grades
must be submitted online by NOON
12 Last
day to drop second-half block courses
13 Last
day to add second-half block courses
13 Mid-month payday
16-20 Spring Break
23-27 Advising Week-Classes Held
27 Last day to withdraw from individual
semester courses
30 Registration for fall 2009 begins
30 Faculty Senate Meeting
31 Spring Faculty Meeting (tentative)
31 End
of month payday
3/31-4/1 University Tenure and Promotion Committee
Meeting
* Residence
Life Summer Session Reservation Priority
3/31-4/1 University
Tenure and Promotion Committee Meeting
10 Issuance of Spring 2010
Class Schedule Departmental Work Copy from Registrar’s Office (tentative)
10-12 Easter
Break
15 Mid-month payday
17 Last day to withdraw from
second-half block courses
18 Discovery
Days
24 Last day to withdraw from the
university for spring 2009
27 Faculty Senate Meeting
30 End
of month payday
1 Last day of classes;
1 Tobin/Spitaleri Recognition
Luncheon
1 Honors Award Dinner
1 Phi Beta Kappa Initiation
1 Torchlight Laurels
2 Undergrad Research Celebration
4-8 Final Exams
6-8 Trustees’
Meeting (
6-15
9 Residence Halls close at 12pm
9 Commencement
11 Begin summer office hours - 7:30
a.m.-4:30 p.m.
14 Final Grades must be
submitted online by NOON
15 Mid-month payday
16
18 Summer Session begins
25 Memorial Day - Offices Closed
29 End of month payday
1 Outreach
Grades for Distance Courses must be submitted online by NOON
15 Mid-month payday
30 End of month payday
* Date to be determined