Faculty Senate Resolution #03-10

 

 

University Calendar Committee

Guidelines for Setting University Calendars

 

These guidelines are incorporated into each University calendar that is approved by the Faculty Senate.

 

1.*    The Faculty Senate shall have the advice of a student-faculty committee on the calendar.

 

2.*    The calendar shall include two semesters of 17 weeks each and a summer session of 11 weeks divided into two terms of approximately 5 ½ weeks.

 

3.**  The calendar shall provide a minimum of 750 minutes of instruction per credit hour (including final examinations).

 

4.      Fall and spring semesters will include at least 14 Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.  Each summer session will have 25 class days. 

 

5.      When appropriate, fall semester will include Labor Day as a holiday, a two-day break appended to a weekend in October, a Thanksgiving holiday beginning no later than 1:00 P.M. Wednesday before Thanksgiving and continuing through Saturday, and a Reading Day between the last day of classes and the beginning of exams.

 

6.      When appropriate, spring semester will include Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday and Good Friday as holidays, a break of one week, and a Reading Day between the last day of classes and the beginning of exams.

 

7.      Commencement will be scheduled at appropriate times at the end of both fall and spring semesters.

 

8.      When appropriate, fall and spring semester exams will be scheduled on seven days, including Saturday, according to a rotation schedule.  Exams for each summer session will be held on the day after the last class day.

 

9.      Independence Day and, when appropriate, Memorial Day will be scheduled as summer session holidays.

 

 

 

*Mandated by UNC General Administration on February 3, 1971

**Mandated by UNC General Administration on December 31, 2001