Announcement
Academic Calendar 2025: Feedback Weeks and Public Defenses
The new year keeps a wider cadence: a feedback week every 6 weeks, plus an annual public defense week.
2025-09-01
- calendar
- defenses
- review
Cadence
- Fall term: begins early September; Week 6 is feedback week; oral exam window at term end
- Spring term: begins mid-February; Week 6 is feedback week
- Public Defense Week: last week of June (limited public seats)
Why “feedback weeks”
No new content is added. Learners use the week to:
- clear open questions
- revise portfolio entries
- run postmortems
- adjust pacing (including deferral requests)