Constraints for UMM's Academic Calendars
UMM Faculty Senators - updated (April 3, 2009)
See below for the constraints that are Required or Preferred
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- (REQUIRED) VITAL issue: We have to count 39 weeks from the Monday
following Commencement day
backwards and that is the Monday that 9-mth faculty (whatever the
code is) starts on their payroll.
- (Required:) Fall & Spring semesters shall have 15 weeks or 75 or 74 days of instruction.
(We may lose one day (Labor Day) for Fall and one (MLK Day) for Spring).
- (Required:) Both semesters should have 4 days for final exams.
- (UM-Morris - voted yes in 2000) 2-day Fall Break in Fall semesters.
- (Preferred - not required)
Spring break during the Spring Semester starts at the end of
the
middle (8th week) of Spring Semester, ie. it falls on the 9th
week of the semester.
- Staff (USA/TEAMSTERS/AFSCME/etc) has 7
observed holidays and 4 floating
holidays.
- (Preferred - not required)
tudents & faculty would like the last day of final exams in Fall
to be at least a
week before Christmas.
- (preferred - not required)
We should allow 5 working days for New and Returning Faculty
workshops & orientations, and a 3 or 4 working
days of New Student orientation BEFORE the first day of class
in Fall semesters.
- (preferred- not required)
the first day of class NOT earlier than the Monday prior to
Labor Day
- (Senate Policies on Study Day: For campuses that choose to
have a study day, the final exam period will begin on the second day after
classes end, with the day after classes designated as study day. In the
event that classes end on a Friday, final exams will not start until
the following Monday, and Saturday and Sunday will be designated as
study days.)
(Preferred- not required)
A full day of study day before Fall final exams.
A full day of study day before Spring final exams.
- 3 weeks of winter break between Fall and Spring semesters
every year.
If you have any comments, please email: pehng@morris.umn.edu
This URL is http://cda.morris.umn.edu/~semqna/constraints.html