When the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved the two-week pre-session for early January, it shifted UNL's spring semester back by one week.
Annual contracts for nine-month faculty normally end one week after the conclusion of the semester — a week that faculty typically use to finish grading. To compensate for the fact that those 2021-22 contracts will now be ending right as the semester does, essentially requiring faculty to complete work one week beyond their contracts, administration has shifted their first working day of the spring semester from Jan. 3 to Jan. 10.
Departments are advised to not schedule faculty or college committee meetings prior to Jan. 10.