2026 Ramona W. Cannon Award for Faculty and Graduate Student Teaching Excellence in the Humanities Deadline
College of Humanities
Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities recognizes one College of Humanities faculty member and/or graduate student teacher each year. All faculty in the college who have completed three years of teaching at the University of Utah are eligible for nomination. Department chairs, individual faculty, teaching committees, and student advisory committees are encouraged to nominate one person in their department. Please work with your department Chair regarding nomination process.
https://humanities.utah.edu/students/grad-scholarships.php.
Contact Name: Natalie Montoya. Contact Email: natalie.montoya@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: No.
Friday, December 19, 2025.
For more info visit humanities.utah.edu.
Fall 2025 - Grades due
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, December 22, 2025.
Spring 2026 - House Bill 60 registration
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, December 29, 2025.
Holiday: New Year’s Day
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
Spring 2026 First half - Classes begin
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 5, 2026.
Spring 2026 Full Term - Classes begin
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 5, 2026.
First Day of Classes Free Muffins for Humanities Students
College of Humanities
Welcome to Spring 2026!
Humanities Students, join us in the LNCO lobby from 9:00 am-10:30 am (while supplies last) and grab a free muffin and some fruit to start the new semester!
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 5, 2026, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM.
Spring 2026 First half - Last day to add, drop, audit, and elect CR/NC
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 9, 2026.
Spring 2026 First half - Last day to wait list
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 9, 2026.
Spring 2026 Full Term - Last day to add without a permission code
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 9, 2026.
Spring 2026 Full Term - Last day to wait list
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 9, 2026.
Graduation Application Deadline
College of Humanities
REGISTER: https://registrar.utah.edu/graduation/index.php.
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 16, 2026.
Spring 2026 - Deadline to apply for graduation
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 16, 2026.
Spring 2026 - Tuition payment due
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 16, 2026.
Spring 2026 Full Term - Last day to add, drop, audit, and elect CR/NC
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 16, 2026.
Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 19, 2026.
Job and Internship Searching
College of Humanities
More info coming soon!
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
Spring 2026 - Census Deadline
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, January 26, 2026.
The Gordon B. Hinckley Lecture in British Studies - "The Fate of the Foundling, or, being undocumented in Twentieth-century Britain" by Nadja Durbach
College of Humanities
The Fate of the Foundling, or, being undocumented in Twentieth-century Britain
by Nadja Durbach, Professor
Co-Editor, Journal of British Studies
Department of History, College of Humanities
University of Utah
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the foundling—an abandoned newborn baby found alive whose parentage was unknown—frequently appeared in British debates about motherhood and the family; poverty and the economy; morality, respectability, and sexuality; nation and empire; and the proper relationship between charities and the state. Scholars of British culture, however, have tended to lose interest in the foundling once the 1926 Adoption Act provided a legal means to absorb abandoned children into new families. Yet it was in the twentieth century that the plight of the foundling was magnified and took on new importance precisely because unadopted foundlings, and older abandoned children, were often undocumented. That they had either never been registered at birth, or their records could not be…
Event Categories: Lectures. Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Cost: Free. Transportation / Parking: Union Parking Lot. Contact Name: John Boyack. Contact Phone: 801-587-7351. Contact Email: john.boyack@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
For more info visit british-studies.utah.edu.
Spring 2026 First half - Last day to withdraw from classes
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, January 30, 2026.
Summer 2026 - Class schedule available
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, February 2, 2026.
Summer 2026 - Registration dates available
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, February 9, 2026.
Interviewing Techniques
College of Humanities
More info coming soon!
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
Holiday: Presidents Day
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, February 16, 2026.
Spring 2026 First half - Last day to reverse CR/NC option
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, February 20, 2026.
Spring 2026 First half - Classes end
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
Spring 2026 Second half - Classes begin
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026.
Salary Negotiation
College of Humanities
More info coming soon!
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Campus Locations: Language & Communication Bldg (LNCO). Contact Name: Cameron Vakilian. Contact Email: cameron.vakilian@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
Spring 2026 First half - Grades due
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Sunday, March 1, 2026.
Spring 2026 Second half - Last day to add, drop, audit, and elect CR/NC
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, March 3, 2026.
Spring 2026 Second half - Last day to wait list
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Tuesday, March 3, 2026.
Spring 2026 Full Term - Last day to withdraw from classes
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, March 6, 2026.
Spring Break
College of Humanities
No classes, happy spring break!
Event Categories: Community Engagement. Contact Name: Karen Marsh. Contact Email: karen.marsh@utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Saturday, March 7, 2026 – Sunday, March 15, 2026.
Spring 2026: Spring Break (Mar 7 - Mar 15)
Academic Deadlines
Event Categories: Academic & Holiday. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Saturday, March 7, 2026 – Saturday, March 14, 2026.