Santa Fe Academic Calendar 2025–26

View a printable PDF version for the 2025–26 academic year.

Dates and times subject to change. All times listed are Mountain Time (MT).

For the latest schedule, read the weekly Ephemera, access your @sjc.edu mailbox, check your voicemail notices, and check this page. ​​​​​​

2025 Summer Term

June 2025

Date Event
Monday, June 2
  • January Freshman second term begins with tutorials and seminars, as scheduled
  • Classes begin for low-residency MALA students
  • JF REGISTRATION – Office of the Registrar during class intervals
  • DEADLINE: Completion of Financial Aid/Loan file for the Summer 2025 term
  • DEADLINE: Student Accounts for Summer 2025 must be paid in full or payment plan arranged with the Treasurer’s Office.

Failure to meet these deadlines triggers withdrawal from financial aid funding and enrollment rosters for upcoming term.

Friday, June 6
  • All Undergraduate and GI Spring 2025 grades due
  • Spring 2025 GI comment sheets due (tutorials, preceptorials, second GEIC seminars, and GILA Low-Residency seminars)
Thursday, June 12– Saturday, June 14
  • Board of Visitors and Governors Meeting – Santa Fe
Friday, June 13
  • 10 a.m., GI Summer Faculty Meeting
  • Housing opens for GI students
Saturday, June 14
  • 3 p.m., In person GI Convocation
  • 5 p.m., New GI students’ Orientation and Meno Seminar
Monday, June 16
  • In-person MALA students and all EC students begin classes
Thursday, June 19
  • DEADLINE: Graduate Institute transfer applications are due for students requesting transfer for Annapolis for Fall 2025
  • Administrative Offices closed for Juneteenth Holiday
Monday, June 30– Friday, August 1
  • Summer Classics

July 2025

Date Event
Tuesday, July 1
  • In person GILA first and second semester student conferences begin
Friday, July 4
  • Administrative Offices closed for the 4th of July Holiday
Sunday, July 6—Friday, July 25
  • Summer Academy
Monday, July 7
  • DEADLINE: GIEC and GILA deposits due for Fall 2025 term
  • 5 p.m., DEADLINE: Master’s Essays due to GI Office
Monday, July 14
  • Low-Residency GILA conferences begin for first and second semester students
  • Submission date of missing work from SP 2025 that led to incomplete grade unless earlier date was stipulated by tutor
Monday, July 21
  • January Freshmen annual essays due by noon, or as otherwise announced by seminar tutors (12 p.m.)
  • GIEC and GILA seminar orals begin
Wednesday, July 23– Friday, July 25
  • January Freshman seminar oral examinations begin

Fall Semester 2025

August 2025

Date Event
Thursday, Aug 1
  • DEADLINE: Completion of Financial Aid/Loan file for FALL 2025 term
  • DEADLINE: Student Accounts for FALL 2025 must be paid in full or a payment plan arranged with the Finance Office
  • ONLINE REGISTRATION Opens for all Continuing Students and runs through check-in August 27

Failure to meet these deadlines triggers withdrawal from financial aid funding and enrollment rosters for Fall 2025

Wednesday, Aug 13
  • Student leaders return to campus for fall training retreat
Saturday, Aug 16
  • Pritzker Promise Bridge Program and Outdoor Program participant housing opens
Monday, Aug 18
  • Food service begins with breakfast
Saturday, Aug 23
  • 10 a.m.–3 p.m., New Undergraduate Student Check-In and Move-In: Check in with residential life and admissions to get access to your room and pick up your welcome packet. Check in will take place on the Evans Science Lab (ESL) Placita.
Wednesday, Aug 27
  • 10 a.m., housing opens for new graduate and returning undergraduate and graduate students
  • New graduate student orientation begins (time TBD)
  • Tutors’ Meetings (as scheduled by Dean’s Office)
Wednesday, Aug 27–Thursday Aug 28
  • GI Orientation
Thursday, Aug 28
  • 11 a.m., CONVOCATION for New Students and first-term Graduate Institute (GI) students
  • 1:30 p.m., Faculty Meeting
  • 5 p.m., Meno seminar for new GI students
  • 7:30 p.m., First meeting of ALL undergraduate seminars

Students may not attend classes if Student Account Balance is not paid in full or if financial aid file is incomplete

Friday, Aug 29
  • Free Day—no classes
  • 8:45 a.m., Community in Focus Day
  • 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Tutors’ Meetings (as scheduled by Dean’s Office)
  • 12:30 p.m., Welcome Back Community BBQ
  • 7 p.m., Dean’s Opening Lecture
Saturday, Aug 30
  • 9 a.m.–11 p.m., Optional orientation activities and excursions continue (see orientation and welcome back schedule for events)
Sunday, Aug 31
  • 10 a.m.–12:45 p.m., Final optional orientation sessions, Student Activities Center Expo Day (see orientation and welcome back schedule for events)

September 2025

Date Event
Monday, Sep 1
(Labor Day)
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Institute tutorials begin
  • Administrative offices closed for Labor Day holiday (classes meet as scheduled)
    Meem Library and Student Activity Center will be open
Monday, Sep 1–Sunday, Sep 7
  • Welcome Week begins
Thursday, Sep 4
  • Last day to change meal plan (Freshmen excluded – 19 meal plan required)
Wednesday, Sep 10
  • 3:15–4 p.m., Sophomore Class Meeting with the Dean and Assistant Dean, Junior Common Room
  • 4:15–5 p.m., Junior Class Meeting with the Dean and Assistant Dean, Junior Common Room
  • 5:15–6 p.m., Senior Class Meeting with the Dean and Assistant Dean, Junior Common Room
Friday, Sep 12–
Sunday, Sep 14
  • Gratitude and Reunion Weekend
Saturday, Sep 13
  • 12 p.m., Algebra Test (Review session/lunch followed by Exam)
    Required of all sophomores who have not yet passed; freshmen are obliged to attempt the test once by the end of freshman year
Wednesday, Sep 17
  • ONLINE DEADLINE: Spring 2026 New Graduate Institute Liberal Arts (GILA) student financial aid applications
    FAFSA application: studentaid.gov/fafsa
  • 3:15 p.m., Faculty Meeting

October 2025

Date Event
Wednesday, Oct 1
  • FAFSA/CSS Profiles applications become available for the 2026–27 academic year
Friday, Oct 3–Saturday, Oct 4
  • Convening Weekend for Online Graduate Students
  • Johnnie Family and Friends Weekend
Monday, Oct 6–Friday, Oct 17
  • In-person GILA Conferences
  • In-person and online Graduate Institute Eastern Classics (GIEC) Conferences
Wednesday, Oct 8
  • 1:30–3:30 p.m., All-College Seminar
    Undergraduate tutorials canceled. GIEC tutorial students consult with tutors beforehand.
Saturday, Oct 11
  • 12 p.m., Algebra Test (Review session/lunch followed by Exam)
    Required of all Sophomores who have not yet passed. Freshmen are obliged to attempt the test once by the end of the Freshman year.
Tuesday, Oct 14
  • 5 p.m., DEADLINE: Master's Essay final submissions due for Fall 2025 due to GI Office
Wednesday, Oct 15
  • 3:15 p.m., Faculty Meeting
Friday, Oct 17–Monday, Oct 20
  • LONG WEEKEND
    Undergraduate tutorials do not meet October 17 and 20
    All seminars and GI classes meet as usual on Monday, October 20
Sunday, Oct 19
  • DEADLINE: GILA and GIEC student deposits due for Spring 2026 term
Monday, Oct 27
  • Preceptorials begin for juniors, seniors, and in-person GILA students
  • 5 p.m., DEADLINE: Master's Essay proposals for Spring 2026
Monday, Oct 27–Friday, Nov 7
  • In-person GILA seminar orals
Tuesday, Oct 28
  • GIEC students begin second preceptorials
Wednesday, Oct 29
  • Junior and senior seminar oral period begins

November 2025

Date Event
Monday, Nov 3
  • 12 p.m., Freshman seminar essays due
  • DEADLINE: Graduate Institute transfer applications are due for students requesting transfer to Annapolis for Spring 2026
Monday, Nov 3–Friday, Nov 14
  • Online GILA Conferences
Wednesday, Nov 5
  • Freshman seminar oral examinations begin
Monday, Nov 10
  • 12 p.m., Sophomore seminar essays due
  • GI Fall grades due (in-person GILA seminars and first GIEC preceptorials)
Wednesday, Nov 12
  • 3:15 p.m., Faculty Meeting
  • 3:15 p.m., Algebra Test
    Required of all Sophomores who have not yet passed. Freshmen are obliged to attempt the test once by the end of the Freshman year.
Monday, Nov 17
  • GIEC Seminar papers due
Monday, Nov 17–
Saturday, Nov 22
  • Online GILA Seminar Orals (will continue after Thanksgiving break)
Wednesday, Nov 19
  • DEADLINE: Registration forms due for Spring 2026
Wednesday, Nov 19–Friday, Nov 21
  • Freshman Don Rags begin (among interstices of FF classes)
Monday, Nov 24
  • GI Fall comment sheets due (in-person GILA seminars and GIEC preceptorials)
Monday, Nov 24–Tuesday, Nov 25
  • Freshman DON RAG DAYS
    All undergraduate classes in session unless the tutor is sitting in on FR Don Rags
Wednesday, Nov 26–Sunday, Nov 30
  • THANKSGIVING BREAK
    No classes, on-campus residences and dining services remain open
    All classes resume Monday, December 1

December 2025

Date Event
Monday, Dec 1
  • DEADLINE: Completion of Financial Aid/Loan file for Spring 2026 term
  • DEADLINE: Student Account for Spring 2026 must be paid in full or payment plan arranged with the Finance Office
  • All classes resume (undergraduate and GI)
Failure to meet these deadlines triggers withdrawal from financial aid funding and enrollment rosters for Spring 2025
Monday, Dec 1–Wednesday, Dec 3
  • Freshman Don Rags continue
    Monday–Friday, among interstices of classes
Monday, Dec 1–Friday, Dec 12
  • Online GILA Seminar Orals resume
  • GIEC Seminar Orals
Saturday, Dec 6
  • 12 p.m., Algebra Test (Review session/lunch followed by Exam)
    Required of all Sophomores who have not yet passed. Freshmen are obliged to attempt the test once by the end of the Freshman year.
Monday, Dec 8
  • 5 p.m., DEADLINE: Global Pathways applications due to OPPD
Wednesday, Dec 10
  • 3:15 p.m., Algebra Test
    Final test for all Sophomores who have not yet passed. Freshmen are obliged to attempt the test once by the end of the Freshman year.
Thursday, Dec 11–Friday, Dec 12
  • Sophomore and Junior Don Rags may be scheduled during class intervals
Monday, Dec 15–Thursday, Dec 18
  • Sophomore and Junior Don Rag Period. All undergraduate tutorials (FF, SO, JR, SR) are in session unless the tutor indicates otherwise
    Seminars meet as regularly scheduled
  • Library Call-In Week
Thursday, Dec 18
  • Last day of term
    Classes end with seminar or preceptorial as scheduled or as arranged by tutor
  • Last day of GI classes
    All GI classes meet as scheduled
Friday, Dec 19
  • Food service ends after breakfast
  • 12 p.m., All housing closes
  • 12 p.m., All library materials due
Friday, Dec 19–Sunday, Jan 18, 2026
  • WINTER BREAK

Spring Semester 2026

January 2026

Date Event
Thursday, Jan 1
  • Submission date of missing Incomplete/Grade January Freshmen (JF) work from SU 2025, unless earlier date was stipulated by tutor
  • Online Spring Registration opens for New Students (JF and readmits)
Monday, Jan 5–Friday, Jan 16
  • Winter Classics seminars
Friday, Jan 9
  • All Undergraduate and GI Fall 2025 grades due (including preceptorials)
Monday, Jan 12
  • GI comment sheets due (tutorials, preceptorials, GIEC and Online GILA seminars)
Friday, Jan 16
  • New Undergraduate Student Orientation begins
  • All housing opens (new and returning students)
  • Food service begins with breakfast
Saturday, Jan 17
  • New Undergraduate Student Orientation continues
Sunday, Jan 18
  • New Undergraduate Student Orientation continues
  • New Graduate Student Orientation and Meno seminars
  • 4 p.m., Convocation
Monday, Jan 19
  • New Student Orientation concludes
  • 9 a.m., Undergraduate and Graduate Institute classes meet as scheduled
    Except Seniors and January Freshmen
  • 7:30 p.m., January Freshman session begins with seminar
    No JF tutorials
Monday, Jan 19–Friday, Feb 13
  • Senior Writing Period
    Senior seminar classes per special schedule
Monday, Jan 19–Sunday, Jan 25
  • Welcome Week
Wednesday, Jan 21
  • 3:15 p.m., Faculty Meeting
Monday, Jan 26
  • Last day to change meal plan
    (Freshmen excluded–19 meal plan required)

February 2026

Date Event
Relocating to Annapolis?
Transfer application form, $600 advance deposit, FAFSA, and CSS (if applicable) must be submitted by March 1, 2026. Information online and mySJC
Saturday, Feb 7
  • 2:30 p.m., Algebra Test
    Fall and January Freshmen are obliged to attempt the test once by the end of Freshman year
Wednesday, Feb 11
  • 3:15 p.m., Faculty Meeting
Friday, Feb 13
  • FREE FRIDAY– tutorials canceled
Saturday, Feb 14
  • 7—9 p.m., Dean’s and President’s Essay Reception for Seniors
  • 9 p.m., Senior and Master's essays due (Master’s Essays to GI Office by 5 p.m.)
Monday, Feb 16
  • All Senior tutorials and seminars resume
  • GI Conferences begin for first and second semester GILA students
Monday, Feb 23
  • 5 p.m., DEADLINE: ARIEL Internship applications due to OPPD
    All undergraduates eligible except January Freshmen
  • In-person GILA conferences; in-person and online GIEC conferences begin for first and second semester students (continue through March 6)

March 2026

Date Event
Sunday, Mar 1
  • DEADLINE: Undergraduate Intercampus Transfer forms and $600 deposit due to the Office of the Registrar
    No exceptions. The March 1 Financial Aid date is also an all-important deadline in this process.
  • DEADLINE: Graduate Institute transfer applications are due for students requesting transfer to Annapolis for Summer 2026
  • ONLINE Undergraduate Financial Aid Applications Priority Filing Due Date for 2026–27 academic year
    FAFSA application: studentaid.gov/fafsa
    PROFILE/CSS application: cssprofile.collegeboard.org
  • ONLINE Graduate Institute Financial Aid Applications Priority Filing Due Date for SUMMER 2026 Session
    FAFSA application: studentaid.gov/fafsa
    PROFILE/CSS application: cssprofile.collegeboard.org
Monday, Mar 2
  • Senior essay oral examinations begin in Ault-Evers Room, Meem Library
  • In-person GILA seminar oral examinations begin
Wednesday, Mar 4
  • 1:30–3:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Day
  • Special events as scheduled. Undergraduate tutorials canceled. All GI classes meet as scheduled.
Monday, Mar 9
  • 5 p.m., DEADLINE: General Pathways applications due to OPPD
    All undergraduates eligible except January Freshmen
Monday, Mar 9–Friday, Mar 13
  • January Freshman Don Rags scheduled during class intervals
Wednesday, Mar 11
  • 3:15 p.m., Faculty Meeting
Saturday, Mar 14
  • Food service ends after brunch
  • 12 p.m., All housing closes
Saturday, Mar 14–Sunday, Mar 29
  • SPRING BREAK for all students
Wednesday, Mar 18
  • ONLINE DEADLINE: Summer 2026 new GILA student financial aid applications
    FAFSA application: studentaid.gov/fafsa
Monday, Mar 23
  • Submission date for missing work that led to incomplete grade for FA 2025, unless tutor stipulated an earlier date
  • 5 p.m., DEADLINE: Master's Essay proposals for Summer 2026
Saturday, Mar 28
  • All housing opens
  • Food service begins with brunch
Monday, Mar 30
  • All tutorials and seminars resume
  • In-person GILA preceptorials begin and continue through Thursday, May 21
  • Grade-changing DEADLINE for Fall 2025 grades
  • In-person GILA Seminar orals begin (through April 3)

April 2026

Date Event
Wednesday, Apr 1
  • DEADLINE: Undergraduate Advance Deposits for Fall 2026 for continuing students
    Deposit holds a place in Fall class roster and (if applicable) allows participation in housing lottery
  • DEADLINE: Undergraduate 2026–27 Housing Plans Forms & Housing Agreement due. Required to participate in housing lottery.
  • All student accounts for Spring 2026 must be paid in full
Tuesday, Mar 31–Monday, Apr 6
  • Sophomore tutorials canceled for essay writing period, classes resume at 1:30 p.m., Monday, Apr 6
Saturday, Apr 4
  • DEADLINE: GILA and GIEC advance deposits due for Summer 2026 term
Monday, Apr 6
  • 12 p.m., Sophomore Enabling Essays due unless otherwise announced by seminar tutors
  • Online GILA Conferences (through April 17)
Wednesday, Apr 8–Wednesday, Apr 29
  • Sophomore seminar orals begin
Friday, Apr 10–Sunday, Apr 12
  • Graduate Student Convening Weekend
Monday, Apr 13
  • DEADLINE: GI Spring term comment sheets due (In-person GILA seminars and GIEC preceptorials)
Wednesday, Apr 15
  • 3:15 p.m., Algebra Test
    Required of all Sophomores who have not yet passed. Freshmen are obliged to attempt the test once by the end of the Freshman year.
Thursday, Apr 16–Monday, Apr 20
  • Freshman and Junior Writing Period
  • No Freshmen or Junior tutorials through the morning of April 20.
  • JF classes meet as scheduled
Monday, Apr 20
  • 12 p.m., Freshmen, Junior, and January Freshmen essays due
  • GIEC Seminar essays due and Seminar Orals begin
  • Online GILA seminar Orals (through May 1)
Wednesday, Apr 22
  • 3:15 p.m., Faculty Meeting
Wednesday, Apr 22–Friday, May 1
  • January Freshmen seminar orals
Wednesday, Apr 22–Monday, May 4
  • Freshman and Junior seminar orals
Monday, Apr 27–Thursday, Apr 30
  • Returning student housing lottery

May 2026

Date Event
Thursday, Apr 30–Friday, May 1
  • Sophomore Enabling DON RAG DAYS
    All tutors may hold classes if not scheduled for a don rag. Please review schedule.
Saturday, May 2
  • 2:30 p.m., Algebra Test
    Last exam offered before Enabling don rags. Fall and January Freshmen are obliged to attempt the test once by the end of freshman year. Exams are not offered in the Summer.
Wednesday, May 6
  • ONLINE DEADLINE: New GILA/GIEC students’ financial aid applications for Fall 2026 term
    FAFSA application: studentaid.gov/fafsa
  • DEADLINE January Freshmen: Student Account for Spring 2026 must be paid in full or a payment plan arranged with the Finance Office
Monday, May 4–Wednesday, May 6
  • Sophomore Enabling Don Rags scheduled during class intervals
Monday, May 11
  • Satisfactory grades’ check due from senior year and graduate level tutors at the Office of the Registrar
    For undergraduate and graduate degree candidates
Wednesday, May 13 9 a.m., Sophomore Enabling Faculty Meeting at Meem Library
Saturday, May 16
  • 9 a.m., Final Faculty Meeting: Awarding of degrees
Monday, May 18–Thursday, May 21
  • Freshman Don Rag and Junior Conference Period
    All undergraduate tutorials are in session, unless the tutor indicates otherwise
  • Seminars meet as regularly scheduled
  • Library Call-In Week
Wednesday, May 20
  • Senior Dinner
Thursday, May 21
  • Last day of spring term
    Undergraduate spring term ends with seminars
  • Last day of GI classes
Friday, May 22
  • Commencement-related activities
    Family activities begin midday
  • 4 p.m., President’s Reception for Class of 2026 degree candidates, families, and friends
  • 5 p.m., All library materials due
  • 6 p.m., GI dinner for graduating students
Friday, May 22–Sunday, June 1
  • Early Summer Break for January Freshmen
Saturday, May 23
  • 10:30 a.m., COMMENCEMENT for Class of 2026
Sunday, May 24
  • Food service ends after brunch
  • 12 p.m., All housing closes
  • Wilderness Leadership Expedition departs–returns on Thursday, June 4.
  • DEADLINE: All student accounts for Summer 2026 must be paid in full or a payment plan arranged with the Finance Office. Failure to meet these deadlines triggers withdrawal from Financial Aid funding and enrollment rosters for Summer 2026.
Monday, May 25
  • 12–1:30 p.m., Seminar Reading List Faculty Meeting
  • Administrative offices closed for Memorial Day holiday
  • DEADLINE: Student account for summer 2026 must be paid in full or payment plan arranged with the Finance Office
  • Failure to meet this deadline triggers withdrawal from financial aid funding and enrollment rosters for summer 2026
Thursday, May 28
  • 5 p.m. MT, Meno seminar and Orientation for all new online graduate students. Zoom link provided.
Saturday, May 30
  • Housing opens for January Freshmen
  • Food service for January Freshmen begins with dinner