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2025-2026 Deadline Schedule - Office of Academic Affairs
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The following are the 2025-2026 deadlines for receiving various documents in the Office of Academic Affairs. Each dean or designated administrator will be responsible for setting their own internal deadlines to ensure completion of the projects below. Many of these deadlines are externally driven; please do not hesitate to contact Academic Affairs at (208) 282-2171 if you anticipate a problem meeting these target dates.
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No Due DateAffiliate Faculty Nomination Forms- are accepted throughout the year. The form and additional information are available here
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August 18, 2025Faculty back on campus
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August 18, 2025Course Scheduling Planning Begins for Spring 2026
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August 19 & 20, 2025New Faculty Orientation
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August 19, 2025Graduate New Student Orientation (Meridian)
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August 20, 2025Publish Your Course in Canvas : Ensure your course is available to students by publishing your course
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August 23, 2025Graduate New Student Orientation (Pocatello & Online)
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August 25, 2025Fall Classes Begin
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August 29, 2025Sabbatical Reports are due to the Office of Academic Affairs. Please submit to Lori Tapanila loritapanila@isu.edu
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August 29, 2025Academic Affairs notifies colleges of tenured faculty who are expected to complete the 5Yr PPR. Colleges must inform listed faculty within 10 working days.
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September 1, 2025Catalog and state proposals for all program and catalog changes requiring full SBOE approval for the 2026-27 catalog year are due. Find information and form for undergraduate catalog here. Find all state proposal and letters of notification information here.
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September 5, 2025Course Schedule Deadline:
All Schedules for Spring 2026 are due by 5pm
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September 22, 2025Course Scheduling Planning Begins for Summer 2026
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September 23, 2025Deadline for submitting to OSBE all state proposals and new Online/Professional Fee Requests that require full SBOE approval for the December 2025 SBOE meeting. Proposals that miss this deadline will have to wait until the 2027-28 catalog.
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October 1, 2025Catalogs available for departments to edit. Due dates are 1/30/26 for department approvals, 2/13/26 for deans. Online catalogs will be available 3/25/26. PDF catalogs available 7/1/26
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October 1, 2025Colleges submit an initial list of those Spring semester students who are following online programs with online program fees to the Office of the Registrar (reginfo@isu.edu). More information here.
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October 1, 2025Nominations open for Distinguished Faculty Awards
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October 8, 2025Graduate Council Council priority submission deadline for 2026-2027.
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October 13, 2025Spring 2026 Course Schedule Published
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October 17, 2025Course Schedule Deadline:
All Schedules for Summer 2026 are due by 5pm
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October 20, 2025UCC undergrad catalog proposals for 2026–27. Please coordinate with UCC reps; more information here. Please note that late submissions will not be accepted. Major program changes require prior OSBE/SBOE & NWCCU approval.
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October 20, 2025All State Proposals for new graduate or undergraduate programs, certificates, discontinuances, new units, etc. are due; must be completed and submitted to Catherine Read in Academic Affairs (wallcath@isu.edu). Letter of Notification Requests are due (Request a state proposal form).
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October 20, 2025Submit proposals and Letter of Notification Requests to Cindy Hill and Undergraduate Curriculum Council (hillcynt@isu.edu and uccmail@isu.edu) in the Office of Academic Affairs for program changes that need OSBE Executive Director approval but do not require a full proposal (for the 2026-2027 catalog).
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October 29, 2025Graduate Catalog Proposals Final Approval Date
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October 31, 2025Sabbatical requests (with application and college recommendations) are due to the Office of Academic Affairs.
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November 1, 2025Annual General Education Course Assessment Reports due, via General Education Assessment Reporting for use by Departments.
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November 1, 2025Special Course Fee Authorization form for subsequent academic year is due to the Office of Academic Affairs. Instructions and form located here.
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November 1, 2025Program Review Annual Report is due. Additional information is available here
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November 3, 2025Spring 2026 Class Level Registration Begins
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November 14, 2025Evaluations for all second-year faculty are due via TMS to the Office of Academic Affairs. Notice of non-reappointment of second year faculty are due to Academic Affairs by December 1 and to faculty by December 15 in accordance with State Board Policy II.G.5.a.ii.
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December 1, 2025 thru mid-Feb 2026UCC catalog proposal hiatus -- no new undergraduate catalog proposal requests will be accepted during this period to allow for preparing the catalog for publishing and transition to a new catalog cycle.
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December 8, 2025Summer 2026 Course Schedule Published
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December 19, 2025Fall 2025 Classes End
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December 22, 2025Fall 2025 Grades Due by 5pm
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January 12, 2026Spring 2026 Classes Begin
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January 12, 2026Course Schedule Planning Begins for Fall 2026
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January 16, 2026GERC 5 Year Objective 7 & 8 Reviews due.
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January 23, 2026All recommendations for promotion and/or tenure (along with supporting materials) are due in the Office of Academic Affairs via shared access to Box folder to Lori Tapanila at loritapanila@isu.edu
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January 23, 2026All Emerita/Emeritus recommendations are due to the Office of Academic Affairs via shared access to Box folder to Lori Tapanila at loritapanila@isu.edu. Please include a current vita, letters of recommendation, and hire date with all recommendations. ISUPP 4060
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January 26, 2026Colleges submit an initial list of Summer semester students who are following online programs with online program fees to the Office of the Registrar (reginfo@isu.edu) by January 6th. More information here
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January 30, 2026Course Schedule Deadline:
All Schedules for Fall 2026 are due by 5pm (Subject to Change)
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January 30, 2026Deadline for departments approval for catalog
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February 6, 2026ISU Promotion and Tenure Workshop 1:00-3:00 pm
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February 6, 2026Evaluations for first-year faculty are due via TMS to Academic Affairs. Notifications of non-reappointment of first-year faculty must be submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs by February 14. All notifications of non-renewal for first-year faculty are due to faculty by March 1, in accordance with State Board Policy II.G.5.a.i.
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February 9, 2026Summer 2026 Registration Begins
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February 13, 2026Deadline for deans approval for catalog
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March 1, 2026Colleges submit an initial list of Fall semester students who are following online programs with online program fees to the Office of the Registrar (reginfo@isu.edu). More information here.
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March 15, 2026All college edits to the Three-Year Plan are due to the Office of Academic Affairs, using the Google Doc provided.
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March 16, 2026Fall 2026 Course Schedule Published (Subject to Change)
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March 18, 2026Research and Creative Works Symposium (put on by the Graduate School)
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March 20, 2026Evaluations for all department chairs and all full-time faculty, third-year and beyond, are due via TMS in Academic Affairs.
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March 20, 2026Third-Year Reviews for tenure-track faculty are due via TMS along with the annual evaluation rating.
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March 20, 2026Five-Year Periodic Performance Review (5Yr PPR) recommendations for tenured faculty are due via TMS along with the annual evaluation rating.
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March 25, 2026Catalog Published online
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April 1, 2026General Education Objective Review Committee Reports for Objectives 7 and 8 are due to GERC.
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April 1, 2026Academic Affairs provides PPR Completion Acknowledgement to each college.
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April 3, 2026Submit Program (State) Proposals and Letter of Notification requests for the 2027-2028 Undergraduate Catalog that require SBOE and NWCCU approval to Cindy Hill and Catherine Read in Academic Affairs (hillcynt@isu.edu and wallcath@isu.edu). Submit corresponding Undergraduate Catalog proposals and Graduate Catalog proposals that require full SBOE and NWCCU approval to UCC and to the Graduate Council respectively.
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April 6, 2026Fall 2026 Class Level Registration Begins
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Early April 2026College Elections
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April 21, 2026Deadline to submit Undergraduate Catalog proposals to UCC for approval before the semester ends.
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May 8, 2026Spring 2026 Classes End
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May 12, 2026Spring 2026 Grades due by 4pm
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May 18, 2026Summer 2026 Classes Begin
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June 5, 2026Notification of non-reappointment of faculty who are in their third or higher year must be submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs. Deans must notify the faculty member of non-renewal by July 15 in accordance with State Board Policy II.G.5.a.iii.
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July 1, 2026Catalogs PDFs published
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July 17, 2026 The Annual Special Course Fee Report is due to Academic Affairs, signed by UBO and Dean
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August 7, 2026Summer 2026 Classes End
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August 11, 2026Summer 2026 Grades due by 4pm
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