2025 DEI Celebrations Calendar

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Our diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) Celebrations Calendar identifies some of the principal observances that are particularly significant to our different Gettysburg College communities. While not exhaustive of all commemorations, with this calendar we highlight and educate on the diverse cultural legacies that enrich all of us.

January 2025

  • 1 New Year’s Day
  • 6 Three Kings Day
  • 20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • 29 Lunar New Year

February 2025

  • All month, Black History Month
  • 15 Nirvana Day 
  • 28 Ramadan begins

March 2025

  • All month, Women’s History Month
  • 13 Purim begins 

April 2025

  • All month, Arab-American Heritage Month
  • 12 Pesach/Passover begin
  • 20 Easter
  • 22 Earth Day

May 2025

  • All month, Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
  • All month, South Asian Heritage Month
  • All month, Jewish-American Heritage Month
  • 5, Cinco de Mayo

June 2025

  • All month, Pride Month
  • All month, Caribbean-American Heritage Month
  • 19 Juneteenth

July 2025

  • 4 Independence Day
  • 26 Disability Independence Day

August 2025

September 2025

  • All month, Hispanic Heritage Month

October 2025

  • All month, Filipino-American Heritage Month
  • Yom Kippur begins
  • 6 Sukkot begins
  • 11 National Coming Out Day
  • 13 Indigenous Peoples' Day 
  • 20 Diwali begins
  • 22 Rosh Hashanah begins

November 2025

  • All month, Native American Heritage Month
  • 1 Day of the Dead
  • 11 Veteran's Day
  • 20 Transgender Day of Remembrance

December 2025

  • 14 Hanukkah begins
  • 25 Christmas
  • 26 Kwanzaa begins
  • 31 New Year’s Eve