Senate Reference No. 98-18

(Superseded by SR No. 00-11)

 INDIANA UNIVERSITY
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
FORT WAYNE

Department of Chemistry
(219) 481-6289
 
 

To:

Linda Wright-Bower, Chair
Educational Policy Committee

From:

Kenneth L. Stevenson, Chair
Calendar Subcommittee

Date:

December 7, 1998

Subject:

Academic Calendar Formula - for information only

The Calendar Subcommittee has approved the attached "Academic Calendar Formula," and submits it to the Educational Policy Committee for transferal to the Senate for information only.

For the Calendar Subcommittee
 

Voting Yes

Voting No

Abstentions

Amitava Chatterjea
Sue DeChant
Lenore DeFonso
Karen Matthias
Dyne Pfeffenberger
Hedayeh Samavati
John Shung
Kenneth Stevenson, Chair

None

Kevin Browne, Registrar
(non-voting, ex officio member)
two students (not named to committee)

For the Educational Policy Committee
 

Voting Yes

Voting No

Abstentions

Susan Hannah

Kevin Browne

 

David Oberstar
Deborah Ross
Roberta Tierney
Linda Wright-Bower, Chair

 

 

 

 

 


12/1998

IPFW CAMPUS CALENDAR SUBCOMMITTEE
ACADEMIC CALENDAR FORMULA

The academic calendar shall consist of two 16-week semesters (including a one-week final examination
period), and two 6-week summer sessions.

During the regular semesters, the standard length of a three-credit-hour course shall be 150 minutes per
week for fifteen weeks. The final examination period for courses shall be two hours.

FALL SEMESTER:

1. The first day of classes of the fall semester shall be the Monday falling between August 20 and
    August 26, inclusive.

2. Labor Day shall be a holiday. Classes shall be suspended starting at 4:30 PM on the Friday preceding
    Labor Day and resume on the Tuesday following Labor Day.

3. There shall be a two-day suspension of regular classes consisting of the first Thursday and Friday
    after the mid-point between the beginning of the semester and Thanksgiving break. However,
    Weekend College classes shall not be suspended. (I.e. the two-day suspension shall end at 4:30 PM
    on Friday.)

4. Thanksgiving recess shall consist of Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday and weekend.
    Monday of Thanksgiving week shall be a make-up day for Labor Day, with regular Monday classes
    scheduled. Tuesday and Wednesday of Thanksgiving week shall be make-up days for the fall break,
    with regular Thursday and Friday classes scheduled, up to 4:30 PM Wednesday.

SPRING SEMESTER:

1. The first day of class of the spring semester shall be the Monday falling between January 8 and
    January 14, inclusive.

2. Martin Luther King Day, the third Monday in January, shall be a holiday. Classes will not meet.

3. There shall be a one-week spring recess after the 8th week of the spring semester.

4. Weekend College shall be suspended Easter weekend.

SUMMER SESSIONS:

1. There shall be a one-week break between the end of the spring semester and the beginning of
    the summer sessions. The first day of class of the first summer session shall be the Monday following
    this break.

2. Memorial Day (Observed), the 4th Monday in May, shall be a holiday. Classes will not meet.

3. The first day of class of the second summer session shall be the Monday immediately following the
    end of the first summer session.

4. July 4 shall be a holiday. Classes will not meet on July 4 when it falls on a weekday. Classes will
    not meet on Friday, July 3, when July 4 falls on a Saturday. Classes will not meet on Monday,
    July 5, when July 4 falls on a Sunday.