The University will be closed for the holidays and specified vacations days indicated below for the 2021-2022 year.
Please note that this is the same number of holidays that other employees of the state receive but some are observed at different times. These holidays are for twelve-month faculty and staff and official closing of the University. Nine-Month faculty and staff generally follow the academic year.
| Independence Day | Monday, July 4, 2022 (see note 1 below) |
| Labor Day | Monday, September 5, 2022 |
| Fall Break Week | Monday-Wednesday, October 3-5, 2022, SAU hours will be 7:00 am to 5:30 pm with a 30-minute lunch break. |
| Fall Break | Thursday and Friday, October 6-7, 2022. October 7 is a President-declared holiday (see note 1 below). |
| Thanksgiving Week | Monday and Tuesday, November 21-22, 2022, SAU hours will be 7:30 am to 5:30 pm, with a 30-minute lunch break. |
| Thanksgiving Break | Wednesday, November 23 – Friday, November 25, 2022 (see note 2 below.) |
| Christmas/New Year’s Break | December 16, 2022 through January 2, 2023. SAU closes at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 16, 2022, and reopens at 8:00 am on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. (see note 3 below.) |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day | Monday, January 16, 2023 Campus is open/classes do not meet (see note 4 below.) |
| Spring Break | Closed March 24, 2023. Monday through Thursday, March 20-23, 2023, SAU hours will be 7:00 am to 5:30 pm with a 30-minute lunch break. |
| Memorial Day | Monday, May 29, 2023 (see note 1 below). |
- Two hours of mandatory leave will be taken from 12-month employees on Independence Day, Memorial Day, and for fall break.
- Five hours of mandatory leave will be taken from 12-month employees for Wednesday, November 24, 2022.
- Holidays observed by 12-month employees during the Christmas/New Year’s break are: Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, George Washington’s Birthday/Daisy Gaston Bates Day, Veteran’s Day, and Employee’s Birthday. For this academic year, two SAU presidential declared holidays are included and 16 hours of annual leave will be taken from 12-month employees.
- Classes will not meet on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday. The students and faculty will have the day off. A survey of the staff indicated that an overwhelming majority wished to continue observing Dr. King’s birthday during the Christmas/New Year’s break; therefore, the University will remain open. Supervisors will make every effort to allow any staff member to take a day of annual leave if they prefer. Traditionally, there are events to honor Dr. King on campus that day.
