Calendar Spring Semester 2008
- January 3
Payment deadline for students who registered for the spring semester by November 9. Tuition may be paid in full or in installments.
- January 6
Orientation begins for new undergraduate students who are twenty–five years of age and older. University residence halls open at 9:00 am.
- January 7 – 8
Add/drop for the spring semester for students who registered and paid their fees.
- January 9
Registration for the spring semester for new and readmitted students who have not yet registered; to complete registration, fees must be paid no later than 5:00 pm on January 12.
- January 10
Registration for the spring semester for continuing students who have not yet registered; to complete registration, students must pay fees no later than 5:00 pm on January 12.
- January 11
- Add/drop for the spring semester for students who registered and paid their fees by January 2.
- Registration for the spring semester for new, readmitted, and continuing students who have not yet registered; to complete registration, students must pay fees no later than 5:00 pm.
- January 14
Classes begin.
- January 17
- Last day of the official add/drop period; after this date, changes in registration require the approval of the department chair and usually the student's dean.
- Last day undergraduate students may register and pay fees without the approval of the registrar.
- January 21
Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday
- January 30
- Twelfth class day; this is the date the official enrollment count is taken.
- Last day an undergraduate student may add a course except for rare and extenuating circumstances.
- Payment due for added courses (add bill).
- Last day to drop a course for a possible refund.
- February 11
Last day to drop a course without a possible academic penalty.
- February 15
Priority date for student financial aid applications for the summer session.
- March 1
- Application deadline for study abroad programs for the summer session and the fall semester.
- Application deadline for International Education Fee (IEF) Scholarship for study abroad programs.
- March 10 – 14
Spring Break
- March 24
- Last day an undergraduate student may, with the dean's approval, withdraw from the University or drop a course except for urgent and substantiated, nonacademic reasons.
- Last day a student may change registration in a course to or from the pass/fail basis.
- Last day to apply for an undergraduate degree.
- Last day an undergraduate student may register in absentia.
- March 31
Priority date for student financial aid applications for the fall semester.
- April 9 – 11, 14 – 18
Academic advising for continuing and readmitted students for the summer session and the fall semester.
- April 14 – 19, 21 – 25
Registration for the summer session and the fall semester for continuing and readmitted students.
- April 29
Registration fee bills for the summer session distributed to students.
- May 2
Last class day
- May 5 – 6, 11
No–class days.
- May 7 – 10, 12 – 13
Spring semester final examinations.
- May 14
University residence halls close at 9:00 am (except for graduating students).
- May 15
Payment deadline by 5pm for students who registered for the summer session during the spring.
- May 16
Fine Arts Commencement Ceremony – 3 pm – Recreational Sports Center
- May 17
University–wide Commencement (official graduation date).
- May 18
University residence halls close at 9:00 am for graduating students