Important Dates

Please carefully review these dates and put them in your calendar. More key dates will be added as our calendar for academic year 2021 – 2022 is finalized; be sure to continue to monitor this page.

Academic Dates: A Note About Weekends

Please understand that weekends are not free. Weekends are frequently needed for group work, academic review sessions, and other activities. Additionally, some class sessions, midterms, and final exams will be held on weekends. This is particularly true during the accelerated summer core curriculum. We urge you to avoid outside commitments as much as possible. All dates subject to change.

Pre-Arrival

Summer Term

The summer core curriculum is extremely accelerated. Class sessions and exam dates are mandatory; plan to be fully engaged and limit your outside commitments. Typically, you will take two classes at a time, with sessions all day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, but there are some Saturdays and Sundays where classes will need to meet.

Wednesdays are generally devoted to group work, career prep, and other activities, but occasionally there are exceptions and class will be held on Wednesdays. In addition to the occasional weekend class session or exam, you’ll use weekends to work with your core team, attend review sessions, and sometimes take exams.

During the second module, which is most of the month of June, you will still be taking two classes, however you will have a different arrangement of class days. For that specific module, you will have classes held every other day, including weekends.

Your program kicks off with an official welcome and the start of orientation programming on Sunday, May 9. Orientation and your first courses will be held exclusively online; we will move to a hybrid academic format in late May.

Attendance at the Sunday orientation sessions is mandatory for all members of the One-Year Class of 2022.

Please note that we acknowledge that our first day coincides with Mother’s Day in the United States. We apologize that we were not able to avoid starting on Sunday due to the accelerated nature of our summer core curriculum. We encourage students who wish to celebrate this holiday with loved ones to make arrangements to do so on Saturday.

Fall Semester

In the first half of the fall semester, you’ll finish one final core course: Managing Operations. You can also take your Leadership course requirement in the fall. Everything else is up to you—consider pursuing an Area of Focus, enrolling in the Management Practicum, or venturing outside of Johnson for coursework in other Cornell programs.

Spring Semester

In the spring you’ll continue to pursue electives. You will also have the option of participating in an Ithaca-based Immersion program, or you might consider a Johnson NYC Curriculum Intensive in New York City. You’ll also need to wrap up your leadership requirement if you didn’t complete it in the fall.