Summer 2023 Academic Calendar - Office of the Registrar (2024)

FAQs

What is the difference between academic calendar and regular calendar? ›

An Academic Year (AY) calendar covers the 12-month time span from July through June. A Regular Year (RY) calendar covers the 12-month time span from January through December.

An academic calendar that uses semesters traditionally has two terms, in the fall and spring, and a trimester academic calendar traditionally has three terms, in the fall, spring, and summer.

A Calendar year ranges from 1 January through to 31 December. An Academic year is comprised of two Teaching Periods, January to June, and July to December. Each Teaching Period includes the main 13-week Study Period (SP) and 10-week Trimesters as well as block and/or intensive study period.

Mid-Year Diaries are paper planners that usually start in June. This is to give people the option to get reorganised mid-way through the year. Academic diaries, on the other hand, usually start in September just as the university year begins.

There are several great calendar apps that college students can use to stay organized and on top of their tasks. Here are a few options you might find helpful: 1. Google Calendar: A versatile and easy-to-use app that allows you to add events, set reminders, and sync across multiple devices.

There are three major types of calendar that have been used through history – solar, lunar and luni-solar. Sidereal (star) calendars have also been used, notably by the ancient Egyptians. Often more than one type of calendar is in use by a given society at the same time.

During a typical academic year, there are two formal semesters — the fall and spring semesters. The academic year starts in the fall semester and runs from August or September to December, with various breaks such as fall break, Thanksgiving break and winter break.

The academic calendar is composed of two semesters. Fall semester starts in late August (with first-year students arriving a week early for placement tests and adjustment to campus life) and ends in mid-December after final exams. Spring semester starts at the end of January and finishes in mid-May after final exams.

Lunar calendars usually start each month with a New Moon or the first visible crescent moon after New Moon. Luni-solar calendars try to remain synchronous with both the solar year and the moon phases. However, a solar year does not contain an integral number of days or an integral number of lunar months.

What is the difference between a calendar year and a normal year? ›

A calendar year always begins on New Year's Day and ends on the last day of the month (Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 for those using the Gregorian calendar). A fiscal year can start on any day and end precisely 365 days later.

Calendars fall into four types: lunisolar, solar, lunar and seasonal. Most pre-modern calendars are lunisolar. The seasonal calendars rely on changes in the environment (e.g., "wet season", "dry season") rather than lunar or solar observations.

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.