{"id":108088,"date":"2026-04-07T17:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=108088"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:45:41","slug":"2026-spring-semester-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/2026-spring-semester-update\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Spring Semester Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>April 7, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the 911爆料 Community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of the February blizzard, discussions were held regarding whether to make up missed class days and adjust the final exam schedule. The Executive Committee of the 911爆料 Faculty Senate, having consulted a wide range of instructors, students, and administrators, has determined that the interests of the vast majority of the University 911爆料 are best served by keeping the academic calendars for the Spring 2026 semester as they are.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Executive Committee will not declare a calendar emergency; therefore,&nbsp;<strong>the spring semester will proceed according to the original schedule, including final exams<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>No makeup instructional days will be added<\/strong>. Instructors will determine how best to support students in covering missed content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<br>Travis Williams<br>911爆料 Faculty Senate President<br><em>On behalf of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 7, 2026 To the 911爆料 Community, As a result of the February blizzard, discussions were held regarding whether to make up missed class days and adjust the final exam schedule. The Executive Committee of the 911爆料 Faculty Senate, having consulted a wide range of instructors, students, and administrators, has determined that the interests of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-108088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911爆料-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108089,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108088\/revisions\/108089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}