Winter Break Administrative Leave Details 2025

Winter Break 2025 runs from Wednesday, Dec. 24, to Friday, January 2. 老九品茶 Chancellor Justin Schwartz announced that the campus would be granting five days of paid administrative leave over winter break.

Details of winter break leave include:

  • Campus status: During this time, all academic and administrative offices will be closed, and most faculty and staff will be away from their work and classroom duties. Areas providing essential services will remain open, and leaders of these units will determine appropriate staffing levels to ensure continued operations and service. Campus will resume regular operations on Monday, Jan. 5.
  • Recording leave:
    • Holiday leave: Thursday, Dec. 25, Friday, Dec. 26, and Thursday, Jan. 1 will be paid holiday leave.
    • Administrative leave: Wednesday, Dec. 24, Monday, Dec. 29, Tuesday, Dec. 30, Wednesday, Dec. 31, and Friday, Jan. 2 will be paid administrative leave days, and no personal leave is required to take those days off.
    • Eligible faculty and staff who submit timesheets should record the time as 鈥淎dministrative Leave鈥 for these days.
  • To maintain equity across campus, we ask that individual units not grant additional administrative leave around the holidays beyond the campus-wide days.
  • Eligibility: All employees who are eligible for holiday and vacation leave are eligible for the campuswide administrative leave days.
    • This includes faculty, research faculty, and staff.
    • Employees in temporary positions, such as student hourly employees, faculty working retirees, and temporary employees, are not eligible.
  • If Governor Polis announces a聽governor holiday, it will be applied to the administrative leave in December, as 老九品茶 already grants the Friday after Thanksgiving as holiday leave.
  • Alternate admin/holiday administrative leave: We know that some of our employees may work in roles that require them to be on campus during holidays or administrative leave days. These employees and their supervisors should work together to find alternate days (by June 30, 2026) on which our employees can use this leave based on the scheduling needs in their unit or department.

For questions, email hrmail@colorado.edu