The University will be closed for the holidays and specified vacations days indicated below for the 2023-2024 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 denote official closing of the University. Nine-month faculty and staff generally follow the academic calendar.
| Independence Day | Closed Monday, July 3 and Tuesday July 4, 2023. See note 1 below. |
| Labor Day | Closed Monday, September 4, 2023. |
| Fall Break Week | SAU hours will be 7:00 to 5:30, Monday through Wednesday, October 09-11, 2023 with a 30-minute lunch break. October 12 is a President-declared holiday. |
| Fall Break | Closed October 12-13, 2023. |
| Thanksgiving Week | SAU hours will be 7:30 to 5:30 on Monday and Tuesday, November 20 and 21, 2023 with a 30-minute lunch break. |
| Thanksgiving Break | Closed November 22-24, 2023. See note 2 below. |
| Christmas/New Year’s Break | Closed Thursday, December 21, 2023, until Monday, January 8, 2024.SAU closes at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 20, 2023, and reopens at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, January 8, 2024. See note 3 below. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day | Monday, January 15, 2024. The University is open; (This holiday is observed during the Christmas/New Year’s Break). Classes will not meet. See note 4 below. |
| Spring Break | March 18-22, 2024. Closed Friday, March 22, 2024. SAU hours will be 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with a 30-minute lunch break, Monday, March 18 – Thursday, March 21. |
| Memorial Day | Closed Monday, May 27, 2023 |
- July 3 is a SAU holiday.
- For Wednesday, November 22, 2023, five (5) hours of mandatory leave will be taken from 12-month faculty and staff.
- Holidays observed by staff 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. This year includes two SAU Holidays and 16 hours of mandatory annual leave.
- Classes will not meet on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. 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.
