The following holidays will be observed by the University in the upcoming fiscal year (July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024) on the dates listed below:

• Independence Day, Tuesday, July 4, 2023
• Labor Day, Monday, September 4, 2023
• Thanksgiving, Thursday and Friday, November 23 & 24, 2023
• Christmas Day, Monday, December 25, 2023
• New Year’s Day, Monday, January 1, 2024
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 15, 2024
• Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2024
• Juneteenth, Wednesday, June 19, 2024

To the University Community:

Each year, the President, Provost, and Senior Executive Vice President assess the feasibility of observing Penn’s traditional Special Winter Vacation. This year, the Special Winter Vacation granted to faculty and staff will be on December 26, 27, 28, and 29, 2023. 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 workday before a holiday, the workday 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 healthcare 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