School calendar change proposed at MU Faculty Council meeting

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Next year's school calendar was brought up during the University of Missouri’s Faculty Council meeting on Thursday.

Last month, it was revealed that MU’s fall semester next school year could lose its “Reading Day,” to make up classroom hours lost from Veterans Day falling on a Wednesday. This year was the first year Veterans Day was a holiday for university workers.

The UM System has suggested two possible changes to keep the day – also known as “Stop Day – on the schedule. One includes changes the requirements to be a 15-week semester, rather than having classes on specific days of the week needing a specific number of classroom hours.

The other option would be starting the fall semester a week earlier.

All four campuses and the Board of Curators have to sign off on any change.