At my university the paid holidays for staff are New Years, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and the Day After Thanksgiving.

Faculty get these paid holidays, and do not have to record their vacation time at all.

Some staff and most faculty are on 9 month appointments, which means they do not work in the summer.

Some staff who work for academic departments in the College of Arts and Sciences in the summer take all of their vacation time and/or work a very short schedule in the summer because no professors are working.

Staff who work for housekeeping in dorms and for food services tend to be furloughed or transferred to the Medical Center for the summer

We also have the option, if approved, to take the summer off as our vacation at half pay (2 weeks of vacation for 1 weeks vacation pay), but this is hardly ever approved.

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Others have already chimed in, but IME staff get standard federal holidays off and that's about it, plus the week between Xmas and New Years.

If one were to hypothetically work at a university, would one typically get the days that the university is closed off? And would these be paid days off?

really depends on the school. At my school, we follow the Fed. any day that the federal government is closed, we are closed, which means that only essential personnel work (hospital, U police, radio station, etc.) Other universities do different things, i.e. one of my colleagues gets a "floating holiday" and has to work either Veterans' Day or Columbis Day.

Also, the department for which you work will have some affect on your paid days off. Academic departments sometimes follow different rules than administrative ones.

Most departments I've been in work through the summer, but I can see how it would depend on the dept and the school.

Amy - replied FINALLY to your email.

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I'm taking a half-day off of work so I could stop by the dry cleaners and finally pick up my cross-stitch pieces ($31 just to get them pressed flat!!) and then get to campus and do my homework. Library lower level is surprisingly busy and loud due to a Blues Symposium going on this week (before Blues Fest this weekend in the city).

Now to get my last service report typed up...

Most departments I've been in work through the summer, but I can see how it would depend on the dept and the school.

When I interviewed with a department at Chicago, they were 'open' all summer but actually closed Fridays. I've seen other depts with half-day Fridays in summer as well. I wouldn't be surprised if that crops up fairly often, but it's not something you'd assume either.

I mounted my cheap retractable clothesline just now and I did a crap job of it, too. I hooked the main body to the deck pole, crooked...and too high for me to reach it from the ground. Then the hook where the line goes didn`t seat all the way because I am a weakling. But! It is up and I am proud of myself. So now I want to hang my clothes out but a) there is no sun (one of the only days where there`s none and b) it is super windy. I still can hang clothes, right?

Have you tried disabling all your add-ons? If any of them have a Windows 7 issue then it could be causing it.

If I recall the timing of her new laptop, it was around the time that the Really Unstable Firefox version came out (because it was doing the same thing to me on XP).

Back in the mid-90s when I interviewed at the Lutheran Theological Seminary library, they told me that they closed the entire building (which was the whole school) down on Fridays in the summer to save energy costs. I was utterly horrified at what it was doing to their older volumes, but could understand their need to cut back on expenses.