Inclusive Calendar
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to continue our Inclusive Calendar. The A&S Inclusive Calendar version 2.0 encompasses the 2023-24 UC Fiscal year.
This calendar is intended to highlight holidays, holy days, celebrations and remembrances from all over the world so that we can mark and embrace the moments that matter to each of us.
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Inclusive Calendar: Online Edition
This month marks: Black Business, National Civility & South Asian Heritage.
- 8/5: Summer Semester ends
- 8/7: Purple Heart Day
- 8/9: International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
- 8/15: Feast of Assumption
- 8/17: South Asian Heritage Month Ends
- 8/19: World Humanitarian Day
- 8/21: Fall Semester begins
- 8/26: Women’s Equality Day
This month marks: Addiction Recovery, Blood Cancer Awareness, Hispanic Heritage, Ovarian Cancer Awareness & Suicide Prevention Awareness.
- 9/4: Labor Day (UC Holiday)
- 9/6: Krishna Janmashtami*
- 9/11: Patriot Day & National Day of Service
- 9/15: Hispanic Heritage Month begins, International Day of Democracy & Rosh Hashanah begins
- 9/16: Mexican Independence Day
- 9/17: Rosh Hashanah ends
- 9/18: Ganesh Chaturthi
- 9/21: International Day of Peace
- 9/22: American Business Women's Day & American Indian Day
- 9/24: Yom Kippur**
- 9/28: Anant Chaturdash
- 9/29: Sukkot begins***
*Celebrated on 9/6 - 9/7
**Observed evening of 9/24 - evening of 9/25
***Observed evening of 9/29 - evening of 10/6
This month marks: ADHD Awareness, Breast Cancer Awareness, Disability Employment Awareness, Down Syndrome Awareness, Dwarfism Awareness, Dyslexia Awareness, Emotional Wellness, Filipino-American History, German-American Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, Italian-American Heritage, Learning Disability Awareness, LGBT History & Polish-American Heritage.
- 10/2: International Day of Nonviolence
- 10/5: Latina's Equal Pay Day
- 10/6: Sukkot ends
- 10/9: Columbus Day, National Indigenous Peoples' Day & Fall Reading Day (No Classes)
- 10/10: World Mental Health Day
- 10/11: National Coming Out Day
- 10/15: Hispanic Heritage Month ends, Navratri Begins & White Cane Safety Day
- 10/16: Birth of Baha’u’llah*
- 10/20: Birth of Guru Granth
- 10/22: International Stuttering Awareness Day
- 10/24: Navratri ends
- 10/31: Halloween
*Observed evening of 10/16 - evening of 10/17
This month marks: Adoption, Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness, Child Safety Protection, Epilepsy Awareness, Diabetes Awareness, Lung Cancer Awareness, Military Families & Native American Heritage.
- 11/1: All Saints Day, Día de Muertos begins, Military Family Appreciation Day & National Stress Awareness Day
- 11/2: Día de Muertos ends
- 11/7: Fall Reading Day (No Classes)
- 11/9: World Adoption Day & World Freedom Day
- 11/10: Veterans Day Observed (UC Holiday, No Classes)
- 11/11: Veterans Day
- 11/12: Diwali
- 11/13: World Kindness Day
- 11/16: International Day for Tolerance
- 11/19: International Men’s Day
- 11/20: Transgender Day of Remembrance & World Children’s Day
- 11/23: Thanksgiving (UC Holiday, No Classes 11/23-11/24)
- 11/25: Day of Covenant*
- 11/27: Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha**
- 11/30: Native Women’s Equal Pay Day
*Observed evening of 11/25 - evening of 11/26
**Observed evening of 11/27 - evening of 11/28
This month marks: HIV/AIDS Awareness, Seasonal Depression Awareness & Universal Human Rights.
- 12/1: World AIDS Day
- 12/3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- 12/7: Hanukkah begins*
- 12/9: Fall Semester ends
- 12/10: International Human Rights Day
- 12/15: Hanukkah ends
- 12/16: Las Posadas begins
- 12/21: Winter Solstice
- 12/24: Las Posadas ends
- 12/25: Christmas Day (UC Holiday)
- 12/26-12/29: UC Holiday/Winter Season Days
- 12/26: Kwanzaa begins**
- 12/31: New Year’s Eve
*Observed evening of 12/7 - evening of 12/15
**Observed 12/26-1/1/2024
This month marks: Cervican Cancer Awareness, National Blood Donor, National Mentoring, Poverty in America Awareness & Slavery & Human Trafficking Awareness.
- 1/1: New Year’s Day
- 1/4: World Braille Day
- 1/7: Orthodox Christmas
- 1/8: Spring Semester begins
- 1/14: Orthodox New Year
- 1/15: Makar Sankranti , Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday (UC Holiday)
- 1/21: World Religion Day
- 1/24: International Day of Education & Tu Bishvat*
- 1/25: Mahayana New Year
- 1/27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
*Observed evening of 1/24 - evening of 1/25
This month marks: American Heart, Black History, Ethnic Equality, National Cancer Prevention & Senior Independence.
- 2/1: Imbolc*
- 2/2: Groundhog Day
- 2/6: Lailat al Miraj**, Safer Internet Day
- 2/8: Maha Shivaratri
- 2/13: Mardi Gras
- 2/14: Ash Wednesday & Valentines Day
- 2/15: Parinirvana Day
- 2/19: Day of Remembrance & President's Day
- 2/20: World Day of Social Justice
- 2/21: National Braille Day
- 2/26: Festival of Ayyam-i-Ha Begins
- 2/29: Festival of Ayyam-i-Ha ends
*Observed evening of 2/1 - evening of 2/2 **Observed evening of 2/6-evening of 2/7
This month marks: Colon Cancer Awareness, Developmental Disabilities Awareness, Gender Equality, Greek-American Heritage, Irish-American Heritage, National Colorectal Cancer Awareness, National Kidney, National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness and Education & Women’s History.
- 3/1: International Women of Color Day
- 3/8: International Women’s Day
- 3/10: Ramadan begins
- 3/11: Spring Break begins
- 3/14: Pi Day
- 3/17: Spring Break ends & St. Patrick’s Day
- 3/19: Baha'I Naw Ruz*
- 3/21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination & World Down Syndrome Day
- 3/23: Purim**
- 3/24: Palm Sunday
- 3/25: Hola Mohalla begins, Holi, International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- 3/27: Hola Mohalla ends
- 3/29: Good Friday
- 3/31: Easter & Transgender Day of Visibility
*Observed evening of 3/19 - evening of 3/20
**Observed evening of 3/23 - evening of 3/24
This month marks: Arab-American Heritage, Autism Awareness, Celebrate Diversity, Earth, National Child Abuse Prevention & National Volunteer.
- 4/2: World Autism Awareness Day
- 4/6: Laylat al Qadr & National Tartan Day
- 4/9: Eid al-Fitr & Ramadan ends
- 4/12: National Day of Silence
- 4/13: Vaisakhi
- 4/20: Ridvan begins
- 4/21: Mahavir Jayanti
- 4/22: Earth Day & Passover begins
- 4/25: Gathering of Nations begins & Spring Semester ends
- 4/27: Gathering of Nations ends
- 4/28: Orthodox Palm Sunday
- 4/30: Passover ends
*Observed evening of 4/9 - evening of 4/10
This month marks: ALS Awareness, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage, Haitian Heritage, Jewish American Heritage, Mental Health Awareness & Older Americans.
- 5/1: Beltane
- 5/2: Ridvan ends*
- 5/3: Orthodox Good Friday
- 5/5: Cinco De Mayo, Orthodox Easter, Yom HaShoah** & Vesak
- 5/6: Summer Semester begins
- 5/15: Birthday of Gautama Buddha
- 5/17: International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia
- 5/21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
- 5/22: Declaration of the Báb***
- 5/27: Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh**** & Memorial Day (UC Holiday)
*Observed evening of 4/20 - evening of 5/2
**Observed evening of 5/5 - evening of 5/6
***Observed evening of 5/22 - evening of 5/23
****Observed evening 5/27 - evening of 5/28
This month marks: Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness, Black Music, Caribbean American Heritage & LGBTQIAA+ Pride.
- 6/11: Race Unity Day & Shavuot*
- 6/12: Loving Day
- 6/14: Flag Day & Hajj begins**
- 6/16: Eid al-Adha*** & Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Sahib
- 6/19: Hajj ends & Juneteenth (UC Holiday)
- 6/20: Litha & World Refugee Day
- 6/26: LGBT Equality Day
*Observed evening of 6/11 - evening of 6/13
**Observed evening of 6/14 - evening of 6/19
***Observed 6/16 - 6/19
This month marks: French-American Heritage & South Asian Heritage.
- 7/4: Independence Day (UC Holiday)
- 7/7: Al-Hirja*
- 7/8: Martyrdom of the Bab**
- 7/11: World Population Day
- 7/18: Mandela Day & South Asian Heritage Month begins
- 7/24: Pioneer Day
- 7/26: National Disability Independence Day
- 7/30: International Day of Friendship
*Observed evening of 7/7 - evening of 7/8 **Observed evening of 7/8 - evening of 7/9
Look for Volume 3 late Spring 2024.
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