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2023-2024 Academic Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Fall Semester 2023 Detailed Calendar

Pre-Semester Dates

3/27/2023 Registration for Fall and Spring opens
7/3/2023 Financial Clearance for Fall opens in Registration Central


August

8/14-16/2023 New Faculty Orientation Seminar 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
8/14-25/2023 First Days of School Experience
8/15/2023 First payment due for financial clearance; Full payment due for 1% and 3% rebate
8/16/2023 Andrews Academy: First Day of School - noon dismissal
8/17-18/2023 Faculty Institute: Thursday, 8:00 am-5:00 PM, and Friday, 8:00 am-12:00 PM
8/18-19/2023 Fall Fellowship
8/20/2023 First Stop
8/20/2023 Honors Freshman Rally:  Sunday, 20 August at 8:00-9:00 PM in Newbold Auditorium
8/21/2023 Cancellation of unconfirmed course registrations for students not financially cleared - 5:00 PM
8/21/2023 RMES: First Day of School
8/21-23/2023 New Undergraduate Student Registration and Orientation
8/22/2023 CIEP English Placement Test
8/23/2023 New Graduate Student Orientation, 10:30 AM-5:00 PM, HPAC
8/23/2023 CIEP English Placement Test
8/24/2023 CIEP English Placement Test
8/24/2023 First Stop for Transfers
8/24-27/2023 New Student Orientation
8/27/2023 Registration open 12:00 noon-5:00 PM in Administration Building
8/27/2023 Graduate Psychology and Counseling New Student Orientation
8/28/2023 Fall Semester and 1st Half Semester: Classes begin;  Last day to register without a fee
8/28/2023 MLS Clinical Year Classes Begin
8/28/2023 CIEP Student Orientation
8/28 - 10/13/2023 ESL Workshops: English for Communication
8/28 - 12/14/2023 Fall Semester
8/29/2023 Late Registration fee in effect for first time registrations for Fall Semester classes; notification of potential cancellation of low-enrollment classes


September

9/4/2023 Holiday: Labor Day - No classes
9/5/2023 Cancellation of classes with below minimum enrollment
9/6/2023 Registration ends: Last business day to complete the following by 5:00 PM: add a class; drop a class with FULL tuition refund and without a “W” grade in the permanent academic record; make a change in registration without a fee; change audit to credit or credit to audit.
9/7/2023 Fee in effect for changes in registration (classes added or dropped)
9/11-15/2023 University Week of Prayer
9/13/2023 Fall Semester and 1st Half Semester: Last day to drop a class with 70% tuition refund
9/14/2023 Change Day
9/15/2023 Honors Fall Agape Feast:  Friday, 15 September at 6:00 PM in HPAC Lobby
9/18-29/2023 RMES: MAP Testing
9/20/2023 Fall Semester and 1st Half Semester: Last day to drop a class with 40% tuition refund
9/21/2023 Undergraduate students: Last day to apply for December Degree Conferral and May Graduation
9/21/2023 Graduate students: Last day to apply for December Degree Conferral
9/21-24/2023 SciFEST
9/21 - 10/3/2023 1st Half Semester: No refund
9/21 - 11/7/2023 Full Semester: No refund
9/25/2023 Fall Semester First installment Payment Due
9/28 - 10/1/2023 Alumni Homecoming Weekend
9/29/2023 Last day to enroll in student insurance for fall semester


October

10/1/2023 FAFSA available online www.fafsa.gov (filing for Federal Financial Aid)
10/3/2023 1st Half Semester: Last day to withdraw from a class with a W for a fee
10/9/2023 RMES: Fall Break: No School
10/9-10/2023 Fall Break
10/9-10/2023 Regular Seminary Classes in Session
10/11/2023 Classes Resume
10/12-14/2023 Conference on Wholistic Healing: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities for the Church
10/13/2023 RMES: 1st Quarter Ends
10/18/2023 Mid-Semester
10/18/2023 Kingman Lecture on Science & Society - Eugenia Cheng
10/19/2023 Celebration of Community Engagement
10/20/2023 1st Half Semester: Classes end
10/20/2023 Celebration of Research and Creative Scholarship
10/20/2023 CEIS: MA/MS Comprehensives, 8:30 AM-11:30 AM; 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
10/20-23/2023 CEIS: EdS/MA Comprehensives, (SP, CMHC & SC) 8:30 AM-12:30 PM
10/20-24/2023 CEIS: EdD/PhD Comprehensives, 8:30 AM-2:30 PM
10/23/2023 2nd Half Semester: Classes begin; last day to register without a fee
10/23/2023 Andrews University Board of Trustees
10/25/2023 Fall Semester Second Installment Payment Due
10/25/2023 Fall midterm grades are due by 11:59 PM
10/25-26/2023 RMES: Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences (Minimum Days- 12:15 PM Dismissal)
10/27/2023 2nd Half Semester: Registration ends: Last business day to complete the following by 5:00 PM: enter 2nd Half Semester classes; drop a class with FULL tuition refund; to make a change in registration by Drop/Add Form without a fee or entry on permanent academic record; to change audit to credit.
10/27-28/2023 Andrews Autumn Conference on Religion and Science
10/30/2023 Andrews University financial paperwork available at www.andrews.edu/sf
10/30/2023 RMES: Teacher Inservice Day - No School


November

11/3/2023 2nd Half Semester: Last day to drop a class with 70% refund
11/5-6/2023 Junior Preview
11/6/2023 Registration for Spring Semester opens at Academic Records Counter
11/7/2023 Fall Semester: Last day to withdraw from a class with a W for a fee
11/7/2023 Veterans Day Chapel Program - Location TBA
11/10/2023 2nd Half Semester: Last day to drop a class with 40% refund
11/10/2023 Admissions Application Deadline for Spring Semester
11/10/2023 Last day for all comprehensives to be completed for December degree conferral
11/11/2023 Honors Church:  Sabbath,  11 November at 11:45 AM in Seminary Chapel
11/11-28/2023 2nd Half Semester: No refund
11/13/2023 Health Professions, Transfer Preview
11/19-26/2023 Seminary Holiday: Thanksgiving Break
11/22-24/2023 RMES: Thanksgiving Break
11/22-26/2023 Holiday: Thanksgiving Break
11/22-24/2023 Andrews Academy: Thanksgiving Break begins at noon Wed
11/25/2023 Fall Semester Third Installment Payment Due
11/27/2023 Classes Resume
11/28/2023 2nd Half Semester: Last day to withdraw from a class with a W for a fee
11/30/2023 Fall Honors Thesis Symposium:  Thursday, 30 November at 4:00 PM in Buller Hall
11/30/2023 CIEP English Placement Test


December

12/1/2023 Financial Clearance opens in Registration Central
12/6/2023 MLS Clinical Year - Last Day of Classes
12/7/2023 Last Day of Fall Semester and 2nd Half Semester classes
12/7/2023 MLS Clinical Year Study Day
12/8/2023 Reading Day (Exam Preparation)
12/8/2023 Medical Laboratory Sciences: MLS Clinical Year Program Final Exams
12/11-14/2023 Fall Semester Final Exams (starts Monday, 7:30 AM)
12/14/2023 Fall Semester and 2nd Half Semester End
12/14/2023 End of MLS Clinical Year Fall Semester
12/15/2023 First payment due for financial clearance for Spring semester; Full payment due for 1% rebate
12/15/2023 - 1/7/2024 University: Winter Break
12/18/2023 - 1/1/2024 Andrews Academy: Christmas Break (No School)
12/19/2023 RMES: 2nd Quarter Ends
12/20/2023 - 1/2/2024 RMES: Christmas Vacation
12/20/2023 Fall Semester Grades due by 11:59 PM
12/31/2023 December Conferral of degrees