DIVERSITY CALENDAR 2024-2025


Below is a year-long diversity and inclusion calendar for 2024-2025 school year, which includes religious holidays, celebrations, heritage months, monthly diversity themes, and more. This is not an exhaustive list of all the celebrations and holidays from around the world. Please contact the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Wellbeing (DEIW) if you have any questions.

List of 18 events.

  • Mar
    1

    National Disability Awareness Month

  • Mar
    1

    Women's History Month

  • Apr
    1

    Arab American Heritage Month

  • Apr
    1

    Celebrate Diversity Month

    By celebrating differences and similarities during this month, organizers hope that people will get a deeper understanding of each other.  
  • Apr
    11

    Day of Silence

    An annual day of action organized by GLSEN to spread awareness about the effects of the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning students. (Glsen.org)  
  • Apr
    12

    Passover

    Passover is an 8-day festival celebrating the Israelites' Exodus from Egyptian slavery. The most important event in Jewish history is marked by eating matzah and bitter herbs, drinking wine, telling the Passover story and not eating leaven (chametz).
  • Apr
    13

    Palm Sunday

  • Apr
    18

    Good Friday

    A Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.  
  • Apr
    20

    Easter

    Easter Also known as Resurrection Sunday, is principal festival of the Christian church, which celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. 
  • Apr
    22

    Earth Day

  • Apr
    29

    Eid al-Fitr

     Breaking the Ramadan Fast.  
  • May
    1

    Asian American Pacific Islander Month

    Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage (AAPI) Month is an annual celebration that recognizes the historical and cultural contributions of people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent to the United States. AAPI Heritage Month 2025 takes place from Thursday, May 1 to Saturday, May 31. 
  • May
    1

    Jewish American Heritage Month

    Celebrates the contributions Jewish Americans have made to America since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. 
  • Jun
    1

    LGBTQ Pride Month

  • Jun
    19

    Juneteenth

    On June 19, 1865, nearly two years after President Abraham Lincoln emancipated enslaved Africans in America, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas with news of freedom. (https://nmaahc.si.edu) 
  • Jun
    28

    Pride Day

    This day celebrates the June 28, 1969, Stonewall Riots. Disability Pride Month  
  • Jul
    1

    Disability Pride Month

  • Jul
    4

    Independence Day

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