Engineering Lectures begin Tuesday, September 7

Message from Barbara McCann, Faculty Registrar

Subject: Engineering Lectures begin Tuesday, September 7

Dear Colleagues:

I'd like to draw your attention to the first day of lectures in the 2010-2011 academic year, Tuesday, September 7. This is a Tuesday, the day after Labour Day.

The start date was moved up by two days from the originally-approved date due to a previously missed 1974 Governing Council resolution. One benefit as a result of this change is that our term will end two days earlier on Monday, December 6th, which will result in a longer final examination period in December with hopefully, fewer conflicts.

For those of you who may not have been around, the 1974 Governing Council resolution states that the first day of classes in all teaching divisions should not be scheduled on the first and second days of Rosh Hashanah which falls on September 9th and September 10th. This means that we need to modify our lecture start-up date accordingly.

If by chance your first class does not start until Thursday, September 9th or Friday, September 10th, please accommodate students who celebrate this holiday as you would normally accommodate.

Thanks for your understanding about this shift of dates. If you have further questions or concerns, please contact me at email registrar@ecf.utoronto.ca and we'll do our best to help.

Sincerely,


Barbara McCann,
Faculty Registrar
Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering