Center for Student Success and Belonging

Join us in celebration of religious holidays, heritage months or weeks and days throughout the year that highlight equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).  We acknowledge these events and develop educational programming and multicultural events to help inform students, faculty, staff, and the broader community to create an accessible, equitable, diverse, and inclusive campus climate.

For more information, visit:  https://www.tmcc.edu/diversity/awareness-calendar  

September

The Red Zone:  First six weeks of the school year

Hispanic Heritage Month:  September 15-October 15

Mexican Independence Day:  September 16

European Languages Day:  September 26

October

Bully Prevention Month

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Down Syndrome Awareness Month

Earth Charter

Filipino American Heritage Month

Italian American Heritage Month

LGBT History Month

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

National German-American Heritage Month

Polish American Heritage Month

German-American Day:  October 6

National Coming Out Day:  October 11

Indigenous Peoples Day:  Second Monday

November

Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week

Native American Heritage Month

National First-Generation College Celebration:  November 8 

Veteran’s Day:  November 11

Pride Gala:  November 15

Trans Day of Remembrance:  November 20

December

HIV/Aids Awareness Month

World Aids Day:  December 1

International Day of Persons with Disabilities:  December 3

Human Rights Day:  December 10

For more information, visit:  https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day#:~:text=Human%20Rights%20Day%20is%20observed,of%20Human%20Rights%20(UDHR).

January

Chinese New Year:  January or February

Tu Bishvat/Tu B’Shevat, Jewish Holiday:  January or February  

Poverty Awareness Month

Stalking Awareness Month and Human Trafficking Awareness Month

For more information, visit:  https://www.stalkingawareness.org/stalking-awareness-month-2021/

Martin Luther King Jr. Day:  Third Monday

For more information, visit:  https://www.uwosh.edu/chancellor/2021/01/this-martin-luther-king-jr-day-hope-for-a-healing-2021/

International Holocaust Remembrance Day:  January 27

February

Black History Month

Ethnic Equality Month

World Hijab Day:  February 1

National Girls and Women in Sports Day:  First Wednesday

International Day of Women and Girls in Science:  February 11

World Day of Social Justice:  February 20

March

Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month

Greek American Heritage Month

Irish American Heritage Month

Women’s HERstory Month

International Women’s Day:  March 8

National Deaf History Month:  March 13 to April 15

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination:  March 21

Equal Pay Day:  March 24

TransAction Week:  Last week of March/First week of April

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade:  March 25

April

Arab-American Heritage Month

Asian Heritage Month

For more information, visit:  https://advancetitan.com/news/2018/04/05/uwo-celebrates-asian-heritage-month

Diversity Month

Earth Month/Week/Day:  April or the week of Earth Day, April 22

For more information, visit:  https://www.uwosh.edu/sirt/events/earth-week/

National Volunteer Month

Social Justice Week:  One week in April

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

World Autism Month:  April

May

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Better Hearing and Speech Month

Haitian Heritage Month

Jewish American Heritage Month

Mental Health Month

Older Americans Month

Lavender Graduation:  May 6

Harvey Milk Day:  May 22

National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Day:  May 30 

June

Black Music Month

National Caribbean American Heritage

Pride Month

For more information, visit:  https://www.uwosh.edu/today/85579/as-pride-month-continues-the-lgbtq-resource-center-director-talks-how-to-best-be-an-ally/

Loving Day:  June 12

For more information, visit:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/10/loving-day-june-12-marks-supreme-court-interracial-marriage-decision/5326018002/

Juneteenth:  June 19

For more information, visit:  https://esther-foxvalley.org/date/2021/06/06/juneteenth-2021-freedom-day

https://esther-foxvalley.org/date/2021/06/13/juneteenth-2021-african-heritage-inc-celebration

Title IX Anniversary:  June 23

July

French American Heritage Month

Parents’ Day:  Fourth Sunday

National Disability Independence Day:  July 26

August

Purple Heart Day:  August 7

Women’s Equality Day:  August 26