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2025-26 Academic Calendar

2025-26 Academic Calendar


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Fall 2025 Academic Calendar

SEPTEMBER 

*1 Labor Day: NO CLASSES

2 Pre-college conference and Academic Convocation

*3 Classes begin: day, evening, graduate

9 Last day to add day courses (state-supported)

16 Last day to drop day courses (state-supported)

16 Last day to add/drop evening/graduate courses (non state-supported)

25 Unity Day: University activities

OCTOBER 

*13 Indigenous Peoples’ Day: NO CLASSES

15 Last day to make up Incomplete grades from Spring/Summer 2025

20 Last day to declare/change major/minor

24 Failure warnings due in the Registrar’s Office

27 Failure Warnings issued to students

NOVEMBER 

3-14 Advising for Pre-registration

3 Last day to withdraw from courses/university

10 Last day to elect Pass/Fail option

*11 Veterans’ Day: NO CLASSES

17-21 Pre-registration for Spring 2026

*26-29 Thanksgiving Recess: NO CLASSES

DECEMBER 

4 Student evaluation of the faculty due

*8 All classes end

9 Reading Day

10 Professional Development Day

11-19 Final Exams

22-23 Make-up days for exams postponed due to inclement weather

*23 Semester ends

30 Final grades for Fall 2025 due in Registrar’s Office

 

Fall 2025 Examination Schedule

CLASS DAY & TIME EXAMINATION DAY & TIME

MWF 8:00/8:30 a.m., Friday, Dec. 12 at 8:30 a.m.

MWF 9:30 a.m., Monday, Dec.15 at 8:30 a.m.

MWF 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 8:30 a.m.

MW/MWF 11:30 a.m., Friday, Dec. 12 at 12:30 p.m.

MW/MWF 12:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 15 at 12:30 p.m.

MW/MWF 1:30/2:00 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 12:30 p.m.

MW 3:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 19 at 8:30 a.m.

F 11:30/12:30/1:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 19 at 12:30 p.m.

TR 8:00/8:30 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 11 at 8:30 a.m.

TR 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 8:30 a.m.

TR 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 11 at 12:30 p.m.

TR 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 12:30 p.m.

TR/T 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 18 at 8:30 a.m.

R 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 18 at 12:30 p.m.

 

Continuing Education (Evening) and Graduate Courses may have a final exam at the same day and time slot of their regularly scheduled class during the first weekof the Final Exam period. See course syllabus for details.


Spring 2026 Academic Calendar

JANUARY 

*19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day: NO CLASSES

*20 Classes begin: day, evening, graduate

26 Last day to add day courses (state-supported)

FEBRUARY 

2 Last day to drop day courses (state-supported)

2 Last day to add/drop evening, graduate courses (non state-supported)

*16 President’s Day: NO CLASSES

MARCH 

3 Last day to make up incompletes from Fall 2025

13 Last day to declare or change major or minor

*16-20 Spring Break: NO CLASSES

23 Failure warnings due in the Registrar’s Office

25 Failure warnings issued to students

3/30-4/10 Advising for Pre-registration

APRIL

1 Last day to withdraw from courses/university

8 Last day to elect Pass/Fail status

13-17 Pre-registration for Fall 2026

*20 Patriot’s Day: NO CLASSES

22 Celebration of Scholarship and Creativity

30 Student evaluation of faculty due

MAY

4 All classes end

5 Reading Day

6 Professional Development Day

7-15 Final Exams

*14 Graduate Commencement

*15 End of semester

*16 Undergraduate Commencement

22 Final Grades for Spring 2026 due in the Registrar’s Office

 

Spring 2026 Examination Schedule

CLASS DAY & TIME EXAMINATION DAY & TIME

MWF 8:00/8:30 a.m., Friday, May 8 at 8:30 a.m.

MWF 9:30 a.m., Monday, May 11 at 8:30 a.m.

MWF 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, May 13 at 8:30 a.m.

MW/MWF 11:30 a.m., Friday, May 8 at 12:30 p.m.

MW/MWF 12:30 p.m., Monday, May 11 at 12:30 p.m.

MW/MWF 1:30/2:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 13 at 12:30 p.m.

MW 3:30 p.m., Friday, May 15 at 8:30 a.m.

F 11:30/12:30/1:30 p.m., Friday, May 15 at 12:30 p.m.

TR 8:00/8:30 a.m., Thursday, May 7 at 8:30 a.m.

TR 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 12 at 8:30 a.m.

TR 11:30 a.m., Thursday, May 7 at 12:30 p.m.

TR 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 12 at 12:30 p.m.

TR/T 2:30 p.m., Thursday, May 14 at 8:30 a.m.

R 2:30 p.m., Thursday, May 14 at 12:30 p.m.

 

Continuing Education (Evening) and Graduate Courses may have a final exam at the same day and time slot of their regularly scheduled class during the first week of the Final Exam period. See course syllabus for details.

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