The University of Colorado at Boulder's annual fall break is on Oct. 10 and Oct. 11.
All campus buildings will remain open during the break. The break was initiated in 2000 to give students a breather during what otherwise would be 12 weeks of continuous classes between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.
Student leaders from the University of Colorado Student Union originally proposed the fall break in 1998 as a way to split up the long stretch of full class weeks. Students were pleased in 1999 when the proposal was approved.
Fall break is now held the first or second Thursday and Friday of October every year.