University Policy on Religious Holidays
Buddhist Christian Hindu Islamic Jewish By date
Memorandum To: Faculty
From: June Aprille, Provost
Date: September 12, 2007
Subject: Religious Holidays
Students on our campus this academic year associate with a variety of religious traditions, including Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim. We should do all we can to allow our students to celebrate their religious holidays appropriately. The catalog states the following university policy:
"The University recognizes the importance of religious holidays and encourages all faculty to make reasonable accommodations necessary for students’ observances. Students should provide faculty reasonable prior notice of religious holidays on which they will be absent."
A list of holy days for the 2007-08 academic year from several major traditions follows:
| Buddhist Calendar | |
| Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) | December 8, 2007 |
| Mahayana Buddhist New Year | January 22, 2008 |
| Nirvana Day | February 15, 2008 |
| Theravadin Buddhist New Year | April 20, 2008 |
| Buddha Day (Visakha Puja) | May 20, 2008 |
| Magha Puja Day | March 21, 2008 |
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| Christian Calendar | |
| Christmas | December 25, 2007 |
| Feast of the Epiphany (Orthodox) | January 6, 2008 |
| Holy Week (Orthodox) | March 16-22, 2008 |
| Good Friday | March 21, 2008 |
| Easter | March 23, 2008 |
| Easter (Orthodox) | March 23, 2008 |
| Ascension Day | May 1, 2008 |
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additional Roman Catholic Holy Days of Obligation | |
Feast of All Saints | November 1, 2007 |
Feast of the Immaculate Conception | December 8, 2007 |
Solemnity of Mary | January 1, 2008 |
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| Hindu Calendar | |
| Deepavali | November 9, 2007 |
| Dusserah | December 21, 2007 |
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| Islamic Calendar | |
| Ramadan begins | September 13, 2007 |
| Eid-al-Fitr (Ramadan ends) | October 13, 2007 |
| Hajj days | December 18-23, 2007 |
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Jewish Calendar
In the Jewish calendar, all Sabbaths and holidays begin at sundown the day prior to the holiday and end at nightfall the last day of the holiday. |
| Rosh Hashanah | September 12-14, 2007 |
| Yom Kippur | September 21-22, 2007 |
| Sukkot | September 26-28, 2007 |
| Simchat Torah | October 4-5, 2007 |
| Hanukkah | December 4-12, 2007 |
| Passover | April 19-27, 2008 |
| Shavout | May 22-24, 2008 |
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| By date: | |
| Rosh Hashanah | September 12-14, 2007 |
| Ramadan begins | September 13, 2007 |
| Yom Kippur | September 21-22, 2007 |
| Sukkot | September 26-28, 2007 |
| Simchat Torah | October 4-5, 2007 |
| Eid-al-Fitr (Ramadan ends) | October 13, 2007 |
| Birth of the Bab | October 20, 2007 |
| Feast of All Saints | November 1, 2007 |
| Deepavali | November 9, 2007 |
| Hanukkah | December 4-12, 2007 |
| Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) | December 8, 2007 |
| Hajj days | December 18-23, 2007 |
| Eid-a-Adha | December 20, 2007 |
| Dusserah | December 21, 2007 |
| Christmas | December 25, 2007 |
| Solemnity of Mary | January 1, 2008 |
| Feast of the Epiphany (Orthodox) | January 6, 2008 |
| Mahayana Buddhist New Year | January 22, 2008 |
| Nirvana Day | February 15, 2008 |
| Holy Week (Orthodox) | March 16-22, 2008 |
| New Year's Day | March 21, 2008 |
| Magha Puja Day | March 21, 2008 |
| Good Friday | March 21, 2008 |
| Easter (Orthodox) | March 23, 2008 |
| Easter | March 23, 2008 |
| Passover | April 19-27, 2008 |
| Theravadin Buddhist New Year | April 20, 2008 |
| Festival of Ridvan | April 21, 2008 |
| Ascension Day | May 1, 2008 |
| Buddha Day (Visakha Puja) | May 20, 2008 |
| Shavout | May 22-24, 2008 |
| The Declaration of the Bab | May 23, 2008 |
| Ascension of Bahá-u'lláh | May 29, 2008 |
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