Holidays

A&M System employees generally receive from 12 to 15 holidays each year. The state legislature determines the number of holidays, and the A&M System Board of Regents approves the specific days based on the recommendations of each A&M System member chief executive officer. To view your System member's holiday schedule for the 2007–08 fiscal year, click on the appropriate link below.


System Offices
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 13-14
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
Prairie View A&M University
HolidayDates
Labor Day Sept. 3 P1D
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Emancipation Day June 19
Independence Day July 4P1D
Tarleton State University
HolidayDates
Labor Day Sept. 3 P1D
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 20-21
Independence Day July 4
Tarleton State University will work 10-hour days on May 27-30 in order to be closed on this additional holiday:
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Texas A&M International University
HolidayDates
Labor Day Sept. 3 P1D
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 20-21
Independence Day July 4
Texas A&M University
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 13-14
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
Texas A&M University at Galveston
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 13-14
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
Texas A&M University at Qatar*
Holiday Dates
Qatar Independence Day Sept. 3P1D
Eid al-Fitr Oct. 14-16P1D
Qatar National Holiday Dec. 18P1D
Semester Break Dec. 19-30
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 20 P1D
* The standard workweek is Sunday-Thursday.
Texas A&M University-Commerce
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas Dec. 24-27
New Year's Day Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 17-21
Independence Day July 4P1D
TAMU-Commerce will work 10-hour days on May 27-30 in order to be closed on this additional holiday:
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
HolidayDates
Labor Day Sept. 3 P1D
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 20*-21
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D

* TAMU-Corpus Christi operates a 10-hour day on Tuesdays and a six-hour day on Fridays. On Thursday, March 20, the university will take four hours of holiday time.

Texas A&M University -Kingsville
HolidayDates
Labor Day Sept. 3 P1D
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 21
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
Texas A&M University-Texarkana
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas Dec. 24-28
New Year's Day Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 17 -21
TAMU-Texarkana will work 10-hour days on Sept. 4-7, May 27-30, and June 30-July 3 in order to be closed on these additional holidays:
Labor Day Sept. 3 P1D
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
West Texas A&M University
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 19-21
Independence Day July 4P1D
Texas A&M Health Science Center
HolidayDates
Labor Day Sept. 3 P1D
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 3-4 P1D
Texas A&M Agriculture*
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 13-14
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
* This holiday schedule is for employees headquartered in College Station. District Extension offices, Expanded Nutrition offices, Extension Military Program Administration and special Military Program offices, Research and Extension Centers, Research Stations and Wildlife Services follow different schedules. Contact your office for details.
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 13-14
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
Texas Engineering Extension Service
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 13-14
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
Texas Forest Service*
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving

Nov. 22-23

Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break

March 13-14 (College Station offices only)

March 20-21 (Field offices only)

Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
* This schedule is for College Station and Field offices only. Indian Mound Nursery follows a different holiday schedule. Contact your office for details.
Texas Transportation Institute
HolidayDates
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas-New Year's Day Dec. 24-Jan. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 13-14
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D
Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory
HolidayDates
Labor Day Sept. 3 P1D
Veterans Day Nov. 12
Thanksgiving Nov. 22-23
Christmas Dec. 24-25
New Year's Dec. 31-Jan. 1P1D
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jan. 21 P1D
Spring Break March 13-14
San Jacinto Day April 21
Memorial Day May 26P1D
Independence Day July 4P1D

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