Campus Holidays

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2024 – 2025 Holiday Schedule

For a printable PDF version of the 2024 – 2025 Holiday Schedule or FY 25

Campus Holiday Schedule

Thursday, July 4, 2024 Independence Day
Monday, September 2, 2024 Labor Day
Thursday, November 28, 2024 Thanksgiving Day
Friday, November 29, 2024 Day After Thanksgiving (Designated Holiday)
Tuesday, December 24, 2024 Gift Day
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 Christmas Day Holiday Observed
Thursday, December 26, 2024 Day after Christmas (Designated Holiday)
Friday, December 27, 2024 President Designated Holiday
Monday, December 30, 2024 Gift Day
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 Gift Day
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 New Year’s Day Holiday
Monday, January 20, 2025 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Designated Holiday)
Monday, May 26, 2025 Memorial Day
Thursday, June 19, 2025 Juneteenth Day

December 24, 30, and 31 of 2024 have been designated as “gift days,” meaning that employees are excused from work with pay without having to charge a benefit. If an employee is required to work on one or more of those days, they must receive an alternate gift day that must be used by June 30, 2025.

A gift day is a paid day (use of benefit time is not required) provided to leave benefit eligible employees. Essential employees who must work on a designated gift day may use their gift day at a later time in the current fiscal year, with supervisor approval. Unused gift days are not paid out at the time of termination and do not roll over into the next fiscal year.

For other questions related to gift days, contact Labor and Employee Relations at 333-3105. Employees have two Floating Holidays that can be used any time from July 1, 2024, until June 30, 2025. However, the scheduling of these two Floating Holidays are subject to unit approval.