The following holidays will be observed by the University in the upcoming fiscal year (July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022) on the dates listed below:

• Independence Day, Monday, July 5, 2021 (observed)
• Labor Day, Monday, September 6, 2021
• Thanksgiving, Thursday and Friday, November 25 & 26, 2021
• Christmas Day, Friday, December 24, 2021 (observed)
• New Year’s Day, Friday, December 31, 2021 (observed)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 17, 2022
• Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022

To the University Community:

Each year, the President, Provost and Executive Vice President assess the feasibility of observing Penn’s traditional Special Winter Vacation. Thus, the Special Winter Vacation granted to faculty and staff will be December 27, 28, 29, and 30 2021. If an employee is required to work to continue departmental operations for part or all of this period, the Special Winter Vacation can be rescheduled for some other time.

Staff members who are absent from work either the work day before a holiday, the work day after a holiday, or both days, will receive holiday pay if that absence is charged to pre-approved paid time off or to sick time substantiated by a written note from the staff member’s health care provider.

Vacations and holidays for hospital employees or those staff members in collective bargaining units are governed by the terms of hospital policies or their respective collective bargaining agreements.

—Division of Human Resources

NOTE: This has been updated to include the Juneteenth holiday. Visit https://almanac.upenn.edu/volume-68-number3#update-to-the-recognized-holidays-for-fiscal-year-2022 for the latest version.