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Update to the Recognized Holidays for Fiscal Year 2022

On behalf of the President, Interim Provost, and Senior Executive Vice President

The University has sponsored programs to recognize and honor Juneteenth for the last two years.  We are pleased to share that Penn will now recognize Juneteenth as part of the University’s academic calendar and make it a recognized University holiday. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas received word that President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation more than two and half years earlier, and that they were free.  

The University will observe this new federal holiday starting in Fiscal Year 2022. 

On behalf of the Division of Human Resources

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
  • Juneteenth, Monday, June 20, 2022 (observed)

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. 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

 

Fiscal Year 2022

Fiscal Year 2023

Fiscal Year 2024

Independence Day

Mon., 7/5/21 (observed)

Mon., 7/4/22

Tues., 7/4/23

Labor Day

Mon., 9/6/21

Mon., 9/5/22

Mon., 9/4/22

Thanksgiving

Thurs. & Fr., 11/25 & 11/26/21

Thurs. & Fr., 11/24 & 11/25/22

Thurs. & Fr., 11/23 & 11/24/23

Christmas Day

Fri., 12/24/21 (observed)

Mon., 12/26/22 (observed)

Mon., 12/25/23

New Year’s Day

Fri., 12/31/21 (observed)

Mon., 1/2/23 (observed)

Mon., 1/2/24

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Mon., 1/17/22

Mon., 1/16/23

Mon., 1/15/24

Memorial Day

Mon., 5/30/22

Mon., 5/29/23

Mon., 5/27/24

Juneteenth

Mon., 6/20/22

Mon., 6/19/23

Wed., 6/19/24

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