300 / 301
Fall Semester 2015
August 2015
3–6
New Faculty Orientation
3–5
Academic Leadership Group Meeting
6
Faculty/Staff Picnic
7
Faculty/ Staff Sessions and Service Awards
Program
10
Academic Division Meeting
14-16
Getting Started Weekend (
meal contract starts
at 5 p.m. on Friday)
17–20
Fall Bible Conference
19
Instruction Begins at 8 a.m.
24
Convocation Chapel at 10 a.m.
September 2015
7
Labor Day
(no classes)
30
Trustee Meetings
October 2015
1
Trustee Meetings
2-3
Homecoming
15–18 Fall Break
(no classes)
19
Instruction Resumes at 8 a.m.
19
Advising/Early Registration for Spring: Student-
Athletes
20–21
Advising/Early Registration for Spring: Seniors
22–23
Advising/Early Registration for Spring: Juniors
22
Majors Assemblies
27–30
Advising/Early Registration for Spring:
Sophomores
November 2015
10–12 Advising/Early Registration for Spring:
Freshmen
23-12/7 Student Evaluation of Faculty for Fall Semester
2015
25–30 Thanksgiving Break Begins at 1 p.m.
(
residence halls open; dining hall closed
)
December 2015
1
Instruction Resumes at 8 a.m.
8–11
Final Exams*
16
Grades due at 3 p.m.
Spring Semester 2016
January 2016
11
New Student Orientation and Preparation
(
meal contract starts at 5 p.m.
)
12
Instruction Begins at 8 a.m.
12–14 Missions Conference
28-29 Trustee Meetings
February 2016
4
Majors Assemblies
March 2016
5–13
Spring Break (
residence halls open; dining
hall closed)
14
Instruction Resumes at 8 a.m.
18
Advising/Early Registration for Fall: Student-
Athletes
2–22
Advising/Early Registration for Fall: Seniors
23–24 Advising/Early Registration for Fall: Juniors
25–28 Easter Break
29
Instruction Resumes at 8 a.m.
29–30
Advising/Early Registration for Fall:
Sophomores
31–4/1
Advising/Early Registration for Fall: Freshmen
April 2016
11
Academic Honors Day
20–5/2 Student Evaluation of Faculty for Spring
Semester 2016
May 2016
3–6
Final Exams*
5–6
Trustee Meetings
7
120th Annual Commencement
(residence halls close at 5 p.m. for
undergraduates, 8 p.m. for walking seniors)
11
Grades due at 3 p.m.
*Final exam schedules are published at the beginning of each
semester. Please be sure that your travel arrangements do not
confl ict with your final exams.
Summer Sessions 2015
Session I: May 10–May 27, 2016
Session II: June 13–June 24, 2016
Session III: May 31–August 19, 2015
(online only)
Session IV: May 9–August 19, 2015
(online only)
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