2008-09 Academic calendar

UG = Undergraduate
BCOMP/HRM = Bluffton cohort-based organizational management program/human resource management
GPE = Graduate programs in education
GPB = Graduate programs in business 

August

2 Orientation (BCOMP/HRM)
4 Classes begin (BCOMP/HRM)
11 Orientation (GPB)
18 Fall semester classes begin (GPB)

22-24

Orientation (UG)

25

Fall semester classes begin (UG & GPE)

29 Deadline for adding courses (UG & GPE)

September

1 No GPE classes

8

Deadline for dropping courses (UG & GPE)

October

4 Homecoming

13

Deadline for non-emergency withdrawals (UG & GPE)

13-14 Fall break

November

10

Registration for spring semester (UG & GPE)

26-28

Thanksgiving break

December

5

Last day of fall semester classes (UG)

8-12 Final examinations (UG)

12

Fall semester ends (UG, GPE, BCOMP/HRM)

16 Fall semester ends (GPB)

January

5 Spring semester classes begin (UG, BCOMP/HRM, GPE, GPB)

9

Deadline for adding courses (UG & GPE)

17 Orientation (BCOMP)

19

M.L.King Jr. Day - no classes (UG & GPE)

19

Deadline for dropping courses (UG & GPE)

February

23

Deadline for non-emergency withdrawals (UG & GPE)

March

2-6

Spring break (UG & GPE)

23

Registration for summer terms and fall semester (UG & GPE)

April

10 Good Friday holiday
13 Easter Monday holiday; classes resume at 6 p.m.

23

Last day of spring semester classes (UG)

24-30

Final examinations (UG)

30

Spring semester ends; 5 p.m. (UG & GPE)

May

2 May Day; special events planned
3 Commencement
5 Spring semester ends (GPB)

6

May term classes begin (UG)

6-27

May term classes (UG)

June

1

Summer session I classes begin (UG)

10 Spring semester ends (BCOMP/HRM)

July

 10

Last day of summer session I classes (UG)

 13

Summer session II classes begin (UG)

August

 21

Last day of summer session II classes (UG)

2007-08 calendar