Inclusive Calendar
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to continue our Inclusive Calendar. The A&S Inclusive Calendar version 3.0 encompasses the 2024-25 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.
- 8/3: 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
- 8/26: Fall Semester begins, Krishna Janmashtami*& Women’s Equality Day
- 8/31: International Day of People of African Descent
*Celebrated on 8/26 - 8/27
This month marks: Addiction Recovery, Blood Cancer Awareness, Hispanic Heritage, Ovarian Cancer Awareness & Suicide Prevention Awareness.
- 9/2: Labor Day (UC Holiday)
- 9/6: Ganesh Chaturthi
- 9/11: Patriot Day & National Day of Service
- 9/15: Hispanic Heritage Month begins, International Day of Democracy
- 9/16: Mexican Independence Day
- 9/17: Anant Chaturdash
- 9/20: HeForShe Movement Anniversary
- 9/21: International Day of Peace
- 9/22: American Business Women's Day
- 9/23: International Week of the Deaf Begins
- 9/29: International Week of the Deaf Ends
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 & Rosh Hashanah begins
- 10/3: Navratri begins
- 10/4: Rosh Hashanah ends
- 10/10: World Mental Health Day
- 10/11: National Coming Out Day, Yom Kippur*, Navratri ends & Fall Reading Day (No Classes)
- 10/13-10/19: OCD Awareness Week
- 10/14: Columbus Day, National Indigenous Peoples' Day
- 10/15: Hispanic Heritage Month ends & White Cane Safety Day
- 10/16: Sukkot begins
- 10/20: Birth of Guru Granth
- 10/22: International Stuttering Awareness Day
- 10/23: Sukkot ends
- 10/29: Diwali begins
- 10/31: Halloween
*Observed evening of 10/11 - evening of 10/12
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 &
- 11/2: Día de Muertos ends
- 11/3: Birth of Baha'u"lah & Diwali ends
- 11/5: Fall Reading Day (No Classes)
- 11/6: National Stress Awareness Day
- 11/9: World Adoption Day & World Freedom Day
- 11/11: Veterans Day Observed (UC Holiday, No Classes)
- 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
- 11/25: Day of Covenant*
- 11/27: Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha**
- 11/28: Thanksgiving (UC Holiday, No Classes 11/28-11/29)
- 11/29: Native American Heritage 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
- 12/10: International Human Rights Day
- 12/14: Fall Semester ends
- 12/16: Las Posadas begins
- 12/21: Winter Solstice
- 12/24: Las Posadas ends
- 12/25: Christmas Day (UC Holiday) & Hanukkah begins*
- 12/26-12/31: UC Holiday/Winter Season Days
- 12/26: Kwanzaa begins**
- 12/31: New Year’s Eve
*Observed evening of 12/25 - evening of 1/2
**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 & Kwanza ends
- 1/2: Hanukkah ends
- 1/4: World Braille Day
- 1/7: Orthodox Christmas
- 1/13: Spring Semester begins
- 1/14: Orthodox New Year, Mahayana New Year & Makar Sankranti
- 1/19: World Religion Day
- 1/20: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday (UC Holiday)
- 1/24: International Day of Education
- 1/27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
This month marks: American Heart, Black History, Ethnic Equality, National Cancer Prevention & Senior Independence.
- 2/1: Imbolc*
- 2/2: Groundhog Day
- 2/11: Safer Internet Day
- 2/12: Tu Bishvat**
- 2/14: Valentine's Day
- 2/15: Parinirvana Day
- 2/17: Presidents' Day
- 2/19: Japanese American Day of Remembrance
- 2/20: World Day of Social Justice
- 2/25: Festival of Ayyam-i-Ha Begins
- 2/26: Maha Shivratri
- 2/28: Festival of Ayyam-i-Ha ends
*Observed evening of 2/1 - evening of 2/2
**Observed evening of 2/12-evening of 2/13
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, Ohio Deaf History & Women’s History.
- 3/1: International Women of Color Day & Ramadan begins
- 3/4: Mardi Gras
- 3/5: Ash Wednesday
- 3/8: International Women’s Day
- 3/13: Ohio Deaf History Month begins & Purim*
- 3/14: Pi Day, Holi & Hola Mohalla begins
- 3/16: Hola Mohalla ends
- 3/17: Spring Break begins & 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: Spring Break ends
- 3/26: Laylat al Qadr
- 3/29: Ramadan ends
- 3/30: Eid al-Fitr***
- 3/31: Transgender Day of Visibility
*Observed evening of 3/13 - evening of 3/14
**Observed evening of 3/19 - evening of 3/20
***Observed evening of 3/30 - evening of 3/31
This month marks: Arab-American Heritage, Autism Awareness, Celebrate Diversity, Earth, National Child Abuse Prevention, National Deaf History, Ohio Deaf History & National Volunteer.
- 4/2: World Autism Awareness Day
- 4/6: National Tartan Day
- 4/10: Mahavir Jayanti
- 4/11: National Day of Silence
- 4/12: Passover begins
- 4/13: Palm Sunday & Orthodox Palm Sunday
- 4/14: Vaisakhi
- 4/15: Ohio Deaf History Month ends
- 4/18: Good Friday & Orthodox Good Friday
- 4/20: Easter, Passover ends & Ridvan begins*
- 4/22: Earth Day
- 4/24: Yom HaShoah & Gathering of Nations begins**
- 4/26: Gathering of Nations ends
*Observed evening of 4/20 - evening of 5/2
**Observed evening of 4/24 - evening of 4/25
This month marks: ALS Awareness, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage, Haitian Heritage, Jewish American Heritage, Mental Health Awareness & Older Americans.
- 5/1: Spring Semester ends & Beltane
- 5/2: Ridvan ends*
- 5/5: Cinco De Mayo & Birthday of Gautama Buddha
- 5/12: Summer Semester begins & Vesak
- 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**
- 5/26: Memorial Day
- 5/27: Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh***
- 5/30: World MS Day
*Observed evening of 4/20 - evening of 5/2
**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.
- 6/1: Shavuot begins*
- 6/3: Shavuot ends*
- 6/4: Hajj begins**
- 6/6: Eid al-Adha begins***
- 6/8: Race Unity Day
- 6/9: Haji ends
- 6/10: Eid al-Adha ends
- 6/12: Loving Day
- 6/14: Flag Day
- 6/16: Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Sahib
- 6/19: Juneteenth (UC Holiday)
- 6/20: World Refugee Day
- 6/21: Litha (Summer Solstice)
- 6/26: LGBT Equality Day & Al-Hijra begins****
* Observed evening of 6/1 - evening of 6/3
**Observed evening of 6/4 - evening of 6/9 ***Observed 6/6 - 6/10
****Observed for 29 days until 7/24
This month marks: French-American Heritage & South Asian Heritage.
- 7/4: Independence Day (UC Holiday)
- 7/9: Martyrdom of the Bab*
- 7/11: World Population Day
- 7/18: Mandela Day & South Asian Heritage Month begins
- 7/24: Pioneer Day & Al-Hijra ends**
- 7/26: National Disability Independence Day
- 7/30: International Day of Friendship
*Observed evening of 7/9 - evening of 7/10
**Observed for 29 days 6/26 - 7/24
Look for Volume 4 late Summer 2025.
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