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Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
August 2021-July 2022
         Academic Diversity Calendar
Multicultural Student Services   Center For International Studies
Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
Hello Huskies!
We l c o m e t o S t C l o u d S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y ! We a re e x c i t e d t o h a v e y o u o n y o u r c a m p u s .
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our lives and world, it has not
changed how excited we are to welcome students back to campus this fall for the
Full Husky Experience.

T h e r e i s a n i m p o r t a n t h i s t o r y b e h i n d t h i s c a l e n d a r. I t w a s   created to help St. Cloud
State University students of color find other students that                                        shared similar interests.
The original creators of this calendar understood the need                                         to highlight some of the
extraordinary university events and resources available to                                         you.
As your president, I along with other administrators, faculty and staff will continue our
commitment to advance anti-racism and build on SCSU’s history of efforts to dismantle
s y s t e m i c r a c i s m a n d a l l f o r m s o f d i s c r i m i n a t i o n . A t S t . C l o u d S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y, w e h a v e m a d e a
f i r m c o m m i t m e n t t o d i v e r s i t y, e q u i t y a n d i n c l u s i o n t h ro u g h a u n i v e r s i t y f r a m e w o r k c a l l e d I t ’s
Ti m e . We a re w o r k i n g t o c re a t e a w e l c o m i n g , i n c l u s i v e , a n d n u r t u r i n g c a m p u s e n v i ro n m e n t s o
YOU can thrive.

We k n o w a l l t o o w e l l t h a t C O V I D - 1 9 h a s n ’ t b e e n t h e o n l y c h a l l e n g e w e f a c e d i n t h e p a s t y e a r
and a half, as we witnessed the murder of George Floyd and other unconscionable acts of
violence against Black Americans, Asian American and Pacific Islanders and other community
m e m b e r s o f c o l o r. T h e s e a c t s o f v i o l e n c e r e p r e s e n t t h e o n g o i n g r e a l i t y o f a 4 0 0 - y e a r - o l d , d e e p
rooted racism and bias, and racial profiling experienced by members of our communities of
c o l o r.

As members of a higher education institution, we pride ourselves on believing in the power of
k n o w l e d g e a n d e d u c a t i o n t o c h a n g e o u r l i v e s a n d o u r w o r l d f o r t h e b e t t e r. W e h a v e
a responsibility to educate ourselves about the historical and on-going issues of
r a c i s m a n d p re j u d i c e a n d t o a c t t o c h a n g e t h i s re a l i t y.

I w a n t t o f i n i s h t h i s l e t t e r b y g i v i n g y o u a c h a l l e n g e f o r t h i s u p c o m i n g y e a r.
T h e c h a l l e n g e i s q u i t e s i m p l e . We re c e n t l y c e l e b r a t e d t h e a n n i v e r s a r y o f Ly n d o n
J o h n s o n ’ s s i g n i n g o f t h e Vo t i n g R i g h t s A c t t o a l l o w A f r i c a n A m e r i c a n s t h e
right to vote, a law that followed the 1964 Civil Rights Act that banned
segregation in schools and public places. My challenge to you is asking
t h o s e o f y o u t h a t a r e e l i g i b l e t o d o s o t o Vo t e i n e v e r y e l e c t i o n , e v e r y y e a r
f o r a l l e l e c t i o n s – l o c a l t o n a t i o n a l . Yo u r v o t e m a t t e r s a n d i s k e y t o a
h e a l t h y d e m o c r a c y.
I a m s o e x c i t e d t o h a v e a l l o f y o u b a c k f o r t h i s s e m e s t e r.
Yo u r u n i v e r s i t y i s r e a d y t o s e r v e y o u ! E n j o y t h e y e a r !

D r. R o b b y n Wa c k e r, S C S U P r e s i d e n t
Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud State University Education Abroad Programs
                                                                                    SCSU is committed to providing students with an education that includes a rich understanding of the global
                                                                                    community in which we live and work. As part of this commitment, SCSU offers a large selection of education
As we begin the start to the 2021-2022 St. Cloud State Academic Year, it is         abroad programs all over the world such as Australia, England, Germany, Chile, Japan, and South Africa, among
                                                                                    others. Most programs run for a semester, but students can travel for just a few weeks to South Africa and
important to reflect on the challenges of the last two years. The impact of         Thailand/Laos through the collaborative efforts of Ethnic Studies, the Center for International Studies and
COVID-19, police brutality, and systemic racism on our communities of               Multicultural Student Services as part of particular courses offered at SCSU. For more information on the many
color throughout 2020 and 2021 has been unparalleled. We are reminded               education abroad opportunities available to SCSU students, contact the Education Abroad office in the Center for
                                                                                    International Studies at (320) 308-0119 or email at educationabroad@stcloudstate.edu or visit the website www.
daily of the inclusivity and social justice work that needs to take place in both
                                                                                    stcloudstate.edu/educationabroad.
our campus and surrounding communities. We continue to be challenged to
evaluate our individual and collective actions and demand change. St. Cloud         Multicultural Student Services—Dedicated to preparing students for
State University and Multicultural Student Services are committed to fostering
an environment conducive for student leaders to emerge and make a positive
                                                                                    leadership and academic excellence
                                                                                    Multicultural Student Services provides for the particular needs of students of color at St. Cloud State University.
impact for future generations.
                                                                                    Our goal is to offer comprehensive services by giving academic assistance, encouraging personal development
                                                                                    and offering multicultural programming. Following are highlights of the many opportunities and services
This past summer, Multicultural Student Services partnered with the President’s     available through Multicultural Student Services. For additional information on the department or any of the
Office and the Center for International Studies to launch the inaugural             programs, please call (320) 308-3003.
President’s Leadership Retreat led by SCSU President, Dr. Robbyn Wacker, in
Washington, DC. This program offered a unique opportunity for students to
                                                                                    ● Multicultural Academic Support Center—Support services for students
                                                                                        Centennial Hall 221, (320) 308-3952
gain valuable insights into developing their leadership style, daily excursions
and a chance to meet in person with elected official Senator Amy Klobuchar.             The Multicultural Academic Support Center provides direct academic services to students, helping to build
The program was a huge success and we are excited to start planning the                 the skills needed to successfully complete college while serving as a point of interaction between students,
                                                                                        faculty and the community. Services available are a computer lab, tutoring for individuals or small groups,
leadership program for next summer.                                                     academic advising and counseling, assistance with class scheduling, listings of employment and internship
                                                                                        opportunities, monitoring of academic progress, and a quiet study area.
We are excited to welcome our students back to campus this fall semester            ●   Athletes for Success in the Classroom—Academic services for student athletes
and look forward to engaging in important work and conversations with our               Dr. Richard R. Green House, 827 4th Ave. South, (320) 308-5392
student leaders.                                                                        The Athletes for Success in the Classroom program, working in partnership with the athletic department,
                                                                                        provides academic support and a positive learning environment for student athletes at SCSU. Services
In Solidarity,                                                                          provided include help with time management and study skills, tutoring, daily study tables, academic
                                                                                        counseling and advising, assistance with course scheduling, and monitoring of academic progress.
                                                                                    ●   Multicultural Tutoring Program—Tutorial services for students
                                                                                        Dr. Richard R. Green House, 827 4th Ave. South, (320) 308-5392
                                                                                        The Multicultural Tutoring Program provides SCSU students with on-site tutorial services, which are available
Shahzad Ahmad                                                                           at no charge for most general education classes on a daily basis or by request at the Dr. Richard R. Green
Associate Vice President, Center for International Studies                              House. Referrals can be suggested for tutoring in other areas.
Director, Multicultural Student Services                                            ●   Multicultural Activities Center—Cultural events and programs
                                                                                        Atwood Center 141, (320) 308-3003
                                                                                      The Multicultural Activities Center plans a variety of social and co-curricular programs such as Rec Nights,
                                                                                      activities for Black History Month and Chicanx History Month, as well as other multicultural programming
                                                                                      with the specific interests of students in mind, including collaboration with a number of student organizations
                                                                                      for cultural nights. All are welcome to participate in the planning and organizing of events and programs.
                                                                                    ●	Advanced Preparation Program—Summer scholarship program for new students
                                                                                        Centennial Hall 221, (320) 308-3950
                                                                                        The Advanced Preparation Program (APP) is a summer scholarship program open to new incoming first-year
                                                                                        students who are admitted to SCSU. Students receive an in-depth academic assessment, take college-level
                                                                                        courses for credit, and experience college life. It’s demanding but also a lot of fun! Students remember the
                                                                                        program, the weekend activities and the friendships they form for a lifetime.
Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
"Peace is not unity in similarity but unity
   i n d i v e r s i t y, i n t h e c o m p a r i s o n a n d
        conciliation of differences."
              – Mikhail Gorbachev
Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
AUGUST 2021
             Sunday                                    Monday                                Tuesday                           Wednesday                             Thursday                                        Friday                                Saturday
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 Lughnassad - Imbolc (Wicca/Pagan)

                                           James Baldwin, 1924-1987, African
                                           American writer                                                                                                                                                                                        Ira Aldridge, 1805?-1867, African
                                           Isabel Allende, 1942-, Chilean author                                                                                                                                                                  American actor (anniversary of death)

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 New Moon                                  Al-Hijra/Muharram – New Year (Islam)                                                                              International Youth Day
                                           World Indigenous Peoples’ Day

 Mourning Dove, 1888?-1936, Okanagan
 writer (anniversary of death)
 Emiliano Zapata, 1877?-1919, Mexican
 revolutionary leader and spokesperson                                                                                                                       Metacomet, 1639?-1676, Wampanaog
 for rights of villagers and peasants                                                                                                                        political and military leader (anniversary                                           Ernest Just, 1883-1941, African
 (anniversary of death)                                                                                                                                      of death)                                                                            American scientist

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 First Quarter Moon                                                                Faculty Workshops/Convocation          Faculty Workshops/Convocation                                                   Faculty Workshops/Convocation           Husky First Four – Student Services
                                                                                                                          Ashura (Islam)                      Husky First Four, Aug. 19-22                C-Career Health Check-up, 2 p.m., CH    Open Houses (American Indian Center,
                                                                                                                          Waqf al Arafa (Islam)                  www.stcloudstate.edu/firstfour           215                                     LGBT Resource Center, Multicultural
                                                                                                                                                                                                          CI-Atwood After Dark, 9 p.m.-12 a.m.,   Student Services and Women’s Center),
                                                                                                                                                             World Humanitarian Day                       AMC                                     3-5 p.m., AMC
                                                                                                                                                             Faculty Workshops/Convocation                                                        M/I-World Dance Event, TBD
                                                                                   Charolette Forten Grimké, 1837-1914,                                                                                                                           M-MSS Walk-in Advising, 2-5 p.m.,
                                                                                   African American educator and writer                                                                                                                           AMC and CH
 Denise Elia Chavez, 1948-, Chicana                                                Marcus Garvey, 1877-1940, Jamaican     Rose Hum Lee, 1904-1964, Chinese
 writer                                                                            politician, publisher and journalist   American educator and writer

 22     Full Moon
        Obon-Ulambana begins
                                           23                                      24                                     25                                 26                                           27                                      28
        (Buddhist/Shinto)                  Day and evening classes begin                                                                                     CI-Backyard Bash hosted by Greek             Last day to drop full term courses w/
 Raksha Bandhan (Hindu)                                                                                                                                      Life, 5-7 p.m.                               no financial obligation
 CI-Service Sunday, 2-5 p.m., AMC
 Cascade
 M-Walk-in Prep and Plan, 2-5 p.m., AMC                                                                                                                                                                                                           James Wong Howe, 1898-1976,
 and CH                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Chinese American cinematographer
 United Farm Workers union formed from                                                                                                                                                                                                            Anniversary of the March on
                                                                                                                                                             Women’s Equality Day marking the                                                     Washington where Martin Luther King
 the National Farm Workers Association     Jeremy Lin, 1988-, first Chinese                                                                                  passage of the 19th Amendment and
 and the Agricultural Workers Organizing                                                                                                                                                                                                          Jr. delivered “I Have a Dream”
                                           American to play in the NBA                                                                                       women’s right to vote                                                                speech, 1963
 Committee, 1966

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                                           Third Quarter Moon                                                                                                                                                                                     Actual date of Muslim
                                           Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu)
                                                                                                                                             For a complete listing of campus events and                                                          holidays may vary based
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  on appearance of the
                                                                                                                                                 activities, check HuskiesConnect at                                                              moon. Jewish holidays
                                                                                                                                              https://huskiesconnect.stcloudstate.edu                                                             begin at sundown the day
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  before they are listed.

A-American Indian Center, 308-5449                   I-Center for International Studies, 308-4287
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           St. Cloud State University
CI-Campus Involvement, 308-2205                      L-LGBT Resource Center, 308-5166                                                                                                                                              Admissions Office 1-877-654-7278
C-Career Center, 308-2152                            M-Multicultural Student Services, 308-3003
                                                     W-Women’s Center, 308-4958
Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
“These so-called bleak times are necessary
 to go through in order to get to a much,
           much better place.”
              – D a v i d Ly n c h
Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
SEPTEMBER 2021
             Sunday                                 Monday                                 Tuesday                            Wednesday                                     Thursday                                            Friday                                   Saturday
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     Actual date of Muslim                                                                                              CI-Mainstreet Fall Involvement Fair (in   CI-Mainstreet Fall Involvement Fair                                                          Paryushana Parva begins (Jain)
                                                                                                                        person), 11 a.m.-2 p.m., AMC              (online), 4:30-6 p.m.
     holidays may vary                                                                                                  CI-Fraternity Expo, 5-7 p.m., AMC         M-MSS Welcome Back BBQ, 4:30
     based on appearance                                                                                                Underground                               p.m. TBD
     of the moon. Jewish
     holidays begin at sun-
     down the day before
                                                                                                                                                                  Liliuokalani, 1838-1917, last monarch                                                        Lewis H. Latimer, 1848-1928, African
     they are listed.                                                                                                                                             of Hawaii                                                                                    American inventor

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                                        Labor Day, no classes, offices closed                                                                                                                                        Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu)                  Paryushana Parva ends (Jain)
                                                                                                                         CI-Sorority Open House, 5 p.m., AMC
                                        New Moon                                                                         Cascade                                                                                     M-MSS Leadership Retreat, 10 a.m.-3
                                        Rosh Hashanah begins (Jewish)                                                                                                                                                p.m., AMC

                                                                                 Daniel K. Inouye, 1924-2012, first
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Eugenio María de Hostos, 1839-1903,
  Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse), 1842-                                            Japanese American to serve in the US                                                                                                                                          Puerto Rican writer and statesman who
  1877, Oglala Sioux military leader                                             House of Representatives and the US                                                                                                 Alice Brown Davis, 1852-1935,             worked for Puerto Rican independence and
                                                                                 Senate (Hawaii)                                                                                                                     Seminole civic activist                   the end of slavery.

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                                        First Quarter Moon                                                              Yom Kippur (Jewish)                       Independence Day (Mexico)                          Constitution and Citizenship Day
                                                                                                                        National Pow/MIA Recognition Day
                                                                                                                        I-Fall Education Abroad and Away
                                                                                                                        Fair, AMC

                                                                                 Constance Baker Motley, 1921-2005,
                                                                                 first African American woman federal
                                                                                 judge                                                                            Claude Barnett, 1889-1967, African
  Jesse Owens, 1913-1980, African       Alian Leroy Lock, 1886-1954, African     Lola Rodriguez di Tio, 1843-1924,      Jan E. Matzeliger, 1852-1889, African
  American Olympic medalist                                                                                                                                       American founder of the Associated
                                        American educator, writer, philosopher   Puerto Rican poet and nationalist      American inventor                         Negro Press

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                                        Full Moon                                International Day of Peace             Autumnal Equinox                          CI-Huskies Day of Caring (Outdoor
                                        Sukkot begins (Jewish)                   Mabon (Wicca/Pagan)                    CI-Huskies Day of Caring (Indoor          Campus & Neighborhood Cleanup),
                                                                                                                        Service Projects), 12-2 p.m., AMC         2-4 p.m., Barden Park

                                                                                                                                                                  E. Franklin Frazier, 1894-1962, African American
                                                                                                                                                                  educator and sociologist
                                        Judith Baca, 1946-, Chicana artist                                                                                        Mary Church Terrell, 1863-1954, African American
                                                                                                                                                                  civil and women’s rights activist
                                        Dalip Singh Saund, 1899-1973, first                                                                                       Ray Charles, 1930-2004, African American           Frances Watkins Harper, 1825-1911,
                                        Asian American elected to US                                                                                              musician                                           African American civil rights activist,
                                        Congress (California)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     writer and lecturer

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                                        Shemaini Atzeret (Jewish)                Third Quarter Moon                     C-COSE Job and Internship Fair (in        C-COSE Job and Internship Fair
                                                                                 Simchat Torah (Jewish)                 person), 12 p.m.                          (online), 9 a.m.
                                                                                 Confucius’ Birthday                    M-MSS Atwood Underground Rec                                                                     For a complete listing of campus events and
                                                                                                                        Night, 6-9 p.m., AMC
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             activities, check HuskiesConnect at
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          https://huskiesconnect.stcloudstate.edu
 Gloria Anzaldua, 1942-2004, Chicana
 writer                                                                                                                                                           National Farm Workers Association
 Rehabilitation Act, 1973                                                                                                                                         founded by Cesar Chavez, 1962

A-American Indian Center, 308-5449                I-Center for International Studies, 308-4287
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      St. Cloud State University
CI-Campus Involvement, 308-2205                   L-LGBT Resource Center, 308-5166                                                                                                                                                            Admissions Office 1-877-654-7278
C-Career Center, 308-2152                         M-Multicultural Student Services, 308-3003
                                                  W-Women’s Center, 308-4958
Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty
             and the test of our civilization.”
                    – Mahatma Gandhi
Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
OCTOBER 2021
             Sunday                                Monday                                Tuesday                            Wednesday                                    Thursday                                      Friday                              Saturday
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  For a complete listing of campus events and activities,                                                                                                                                                                                       2
 Actual date of Muslim                                                    check HuskiesConnect at                                                                                                           I-Spring Education Abroad Program
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Deadline
 holidays may vary based
 on appearance of the
                                                                  https://huskiesconnect.stcloudstate.edu
 moon. Jewish holidays
 begin at sundown the day                                        Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History Month                                                                                                                              Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian political and
 before they are listed.                                                    Disability Awareness Month                                                                                                                                          spiritual leader, pacifist
                                                                        Domestic Violence Awareness Month                                                                                                                                       Nat Turner, 1800-1831, African American who led
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                first successful slave rebellion

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                                                                               M-MSS Community Luncheon, 11 a.m.-     New Moon                                    Navaratri begins (Hindu)
                                                                               1:30 p.m., Garvey Husky Den

                                                                               Tecumseh, 1768-1813, Shawnee
                                                                               political and military leader
 John Ross, 1790-1866, Cherokee         George I. Sánchez, 1906-1972,          Surrender of Chief Joseph of the Nez   Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977, African        YoYo Ma, 1955-, Chinese American
 political leader                       Mexican American educator and writer   Percé, 1877                            American civil rights activist and leader   cellist

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 Dia de la Raza                         First Quarter Moon                                                                                                                                                  Dasara (Hindu)                      World Food Day
                                        Indigenous Peoples’ Day                                                                                                                                             International Day of Rural Women    M-CAAS/ASA Reunion, 1 pm, AMC
                                        International Day of the Girl Child                                                 SCSU Homecoming Week
                                        CI-Homecoming Food & Supplies                                                               October 13-16
                                        Drive, Husky Food Pantry (HiH 190)                                                 www.stcloudstate.edu/homecoming

 Mary Shadd Cary, 1823-1893, African                                                                                                                                                                                                            John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry,
 American journalist and abolitionist                                          Ronald McNair, 1950-1986,              Arna Bontemps, 1902-1973, African
                                                                               African American astronaut                                                                                                                                       1859
                                                                                                                      American writer and anthropologist

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                                        Mawlid an Nabi (Islam)                 M-MSS ConnecED Series Discussion,      Full Moon
                                                                               Hybrid TBD                             Installation of the Scriptures as Guru
                                                                                                                      Granth (Sikh)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ang Lee, 1954-, Chinese American
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                film director, first Asian American to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                win Oscar for Best Director

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 United Nations Day                                                                                                                                               Third Quarter Moon
                                                                                                                                                                  M-MSS Halenbeck Rec Night, 6-9 p.m.,
                                                                                                                                                                  HaH

 31
 Halloween
 Samhain (Wicca/Pagan)
                                                                                                                      Maxine Hong Kingston, 1940-, Chinese        So Jae-P’il, 1866-1951, Korean American                                       Manuel Cereijo, 1938-, Latino educator
 Ethel Waters, 1896-1977, African                                                                                     American writer                                                                                                           and engineer
 American singer                                                                                                                                                  physician and political activist

A-American Indian Center, 308-5449                I-Center for International Studies, 308-4287
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            St. Cloud State University
CI-Campus Involvement, 308-2205                   L-LGBT Resource Center, 308-5166                                                                                                                                                  Admissions Office 1-877-654-7278
C-Career Center, 308-2152                         M-Multicultural Student Services, 308-3003
                                                  W-Women’s Center, 308-4958
Academic Diversity Calendar - August 2021-July 2022 Multicultural Student Services Center For International Studies - St. Cloud State University
“ L e t o u r s t a n d b e t o g e t h e r, s h o u l d e r t o s h o u l d e r,
h o l d h a n d s w i t h e v e r y h u m a n o f e v e r y c o l o r, b e c a u s e
  together we rise and we shall stand with justice &
       power forever so we can breathe in peace.”
                             – F. M . S o g a m i a h
NOVEMBER 2021
             Sunday                                     Monday                                  Tuesday                             Wednesday                                Thursday                                      Friday                                 Saturday
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                                           All Saints Day (Christian)                 Election Day                                                                   New Moon                                   Jain New Year (Jain)                    Birth of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)
                                           Di de los Muertos begins (Mexico)                                                                                         Diwali-Deepavali (Hindu, Jain, Sikh)       Vikram New Year (Hindu)
                                           I-Alnwick Spring Education Abroad
                                           Program Deadline

                                                                                      Mazie Hirono, 1947-, first elected
                                                                                      female senator from Hawaii and first
                                                                                      Asian American woman elected to US
                                                                                      Senate

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 Daylight Saving Time ends                                                                                                                                           Veterans Day, no classes, offices closed
                                                                                                                                                                     First Quarter Moon

 Isamu Noguchi, 1904-1988, Japanese                                                   Benjamin Banneker, 1731-1806, African   Sojourner Truth delivers “Ain’t I a                                               Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1651-1695,
 American sculptor and designer            Indian Child Welfare Act, 1978             American astronomer and mathematician   Woman” speech, 1852                                                               Mexican poet

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                                           CI-Hunger & Homelessness Awareness         M-MSS ConnecED Series                                                                                                     Full Moon                               Transgender Day of Remembrance
                                           Week                                       Discussion, Hybrid TBD                                                                                                    Birthday of Guru Nanak dev Sahib
                                                                                                                                                                                                                (Sikh)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                International Men’s Day
                                               International Education Week
                                                        November 15-19

                                           William Still, first African American to                                                                                  Wilma Mankiller, 1945-2010, first woman
                                           lead major orchestra, Los Angeles          W.C. Handy, 1873-1958, African                                                 to be elected Chief of the Cherokee of
                                           symphony, 1936                             American “Father of the Blues”                                                 Oklahoma in 1985

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                                           Thanksgiving Break, no classes;            Thanksgiving Break, no classes;         Thanksgiving Break, no classes         Thanksgiving Day, no classes,              Thanksgiving Day, no classes, offices   Third Quarter Moon
                                           University Assessment/Workshop Days        University Assessment/Workshop Days     Day of the Covenant (Baha’i)           offices closed                             closed                                  Ascension of Abdul-Baha (Baha’i)
                                                                                                                              Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahdur (Sikh)   Day of Mourning                            Day of the Covenant (Baha’i)
                                                                                                                              I-SCSU @ Alnwick Thanksgiving,
                                                                                                                              November 24-28, Alnwick England
 Pauli Murray, 1910-1985, first African
 American graduate of Yale Law School
 Occupation of Alcatraz Island dramatiz-                                                                                                                                                                        Sojourner Truth, 1797-1883, African     Bruce Lee, 1940-1973, Chinese
 ing American Indian grievances against                                               José Clemente Orozco, 1883-1949,        Scott Joplin, 1868-1917, African                                                  American abolitionist and women’s       American actor, martial artist and
 federal government, 1969                                                             Mexican muralist                        American ragtime musician                                                         rights activist                         philosopher

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 Advent begins (Christian)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        holidays may vary based
 Hanukkah begins (Jewish)
                                                                                                                                             For a complete listing of campus events and activities,                                                    on appearance of the
                                                                                                                                                            check HuskiesConnect at                                                                     moon. Jewish holidays
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        begin at sundown the day
                                                                                                                                                    https://huskiesconnect.stcloudstate.edu                                                             before they are listed.
                                                                                      Shirley Chisholm, 1924-2005, first
                                                                                      African American congresswoman, civil
                                                                                      and women’s rights activist

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“One part at a time, one day at a time, we can
 accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.”
                – Karen Casey
DECEMBER 2021
             Sunday                                    Monday                                 Tuesday                           Wednesday                                  Thursday                                   Friday                                        Saturday
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 holidays may vary based
 on appearance of the
                                         For a complete listing of campus events and
 moon. Jewish holidays                       activities, check HuskiesConnect at
 begin at sundown the day
 before they are listed.
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                                                                                                                          Minoru Yamasaki, 1912-1986,
                                                                                                                          Japanese American architect

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                                                                                                                                                                                                             First Quarter Moon                           11
                                                                                                                          Bodhi Day (Buddhist)                                                                   Human Rights Day
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Ralph Bunche, 1904-1971, African American
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Nobel Peace Prize winner for negotiating
                                                                                                                                                                                                          agreement between Israel and Arab nations in
                                                                                                                                                                                                          1950
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Sara Chang, 1980-, Korean American classical
 Phillis Wheatley, 1753?-1784, African                                                                                                                                                                    violinist
 American poet (anniversary of death)    Patsy Mink, 1927-2002, first Japanese                                                                                                                            Mako Iwamatsu, 1933-2006, Japanese
                                         American congresswoman                                                                                                                                           American actor                                  Booker T. Washington helps to
 Richard Wright awarded Spingarn                                                                                                                                                                          Red Cloud, 1822?-1909, chief of Oglala Lakota
 Medal for best-selling novel, Native    Anniversary of the Massacre at the                                                                                                                               (anniversary of death)                          organize the National Negro Business
 Son, 1941                               University of Montreal, 1989                                                                                                                                                                                     League, 1900

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 Dia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe      Final Exams                               Final Exams                            Final Exams                              Final Exams                            Fall Commencement                               Full Moon
 (Mexico)                                                                                                                                                          Los Posadas begins (Mexico)                                                            International Migrants Day
                                                                                                                                                                   Day of Reconciliation (South Africa)

                                         Diego Rivera, 1886-1957, Mexican
                                         muralist                                                                         Tatanka-Yatanka (Sitting Bull), 1830?-                                                                                          Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
                                         Yonghill Kang, 1903-1972, Korean                                                 1890, Hunkpapa Lakota spiritual and                                                                                             passes returning title to federal lands
                                         American writer                                                                  military leader (anniversary of death)                                                                                          to native peoples, 1971

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                                         Winter break begins                       Winter Solstice                        Deadline for reporting grades                                                   Christmas Eve (Christian), offices              Christmas (Christian)
                                                                                   Yule (Wicca)                                                                                                           closed

                                                                                                                                                                   Madame C.J. Walker, 1867-1919,
                                                                                                                                                                   African American businesswoman and
                                                                                                                                                                   one of the first American women
                                         Sacagawea, ?-1812, Shoshone guide to                                                                                      millionaires
 Carter Woodson, 1875-1950, African      Lewis and Clark expedition (anniversary                                          Tomás Rivera, 1935-1984, Mexican         Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott
 American historian                      of death)                                                                        American writer and educator             begins, 1955

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 Third Quarter Moon                      Second Day of Kwanzaa, Kujichagulai       Third Day of Kwanzaa, Ujima            Fourth Day of Kwanzaa, Ujamaa            Fifth Day of Kwanzaa, Nia (Purpose)    New Year’s Eve, offices closed
 First Day of Kwanzaa, Umoja (Unity)     (Self-determination)                      (Collective work and responsibility)   (Cooperative economics)                                                         Sixth Day of Kwanzaa, Kuumba
 Zarathosht Diso - Death of Prophet                                                                                                                                                                       (Creativity)
 Zarathushtra (Zoroastrian)

                                                                                                                          Spotted Elk, 1826?-1890, chief of
                                                                                                                          Miniconju Lakota, killed at Wounded
                                                                                                                          Knee (anniversary of death)
 Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man wins                                                                                       Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890
 National Book Award, 1952

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                                                   W-Women’s Center, 308-4958
“ T h e g re a t e r t h e d i v e r s i t y, t h e g re a t e r t h e p e r f e c t i o n . ”
                                  – Thomas Berry
JANUARY 2022
              Sunday                                   Monday                               Tuesday                              Wednesday                                  Thursday                                     Friday                                   Saturday

 Actual date of Muslim 1
  holidays may vary based                                                                                                                                                                                                                               New Year’s Day
  on appearance of the                                  For a complete listing of campus events and                                                                                                                                                     Seventh Day of Kwanzaa, Imani
  moon. Jewish holidays                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 (Faith)
  begin at sundown the day                                  activities, check HuskiesConnect at                                                                                                                                                         Shogatsu/Gantan-Sai (Shinto)

  before they are listed.                                https://huskiesconnect.stcloudstate.edu
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Emancipation Proclamation signed,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        1863

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  New Moon                                                                      Faculty Workshops                          Faculty Workshops                        Faculty Workshops                         Faculty Workshops                         Guru Gobindh Singh Birthday (Sikh)
                                                                                                                           Twelfth Night (Christian)                Dia de los Reyes (Mexico)
                                                                                                                                                                    Epiphany (Christian)

                                                                                                                           George Washington Carver, 1864-1943,
                                                                                                                           African American scientist and
                                                                                 Edward Jones (Amherst), John              researcher
                                                                                 Russwurm (Bowdoin) were first African     Thurgood Marshall graduates first in
                                                                                 American college graduates, 1826          his class at Howard Law School, 1933

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 First Quarter Moon                        Day and evening classes begin                                                                                            Maghi (Sikh)                              Last day to drop full term courses with
                                                                                                                                                                                                              no financial obligation

                                                                                 Harriet Converse, 1836-1903, Six
                                                                                 Nations Chief                             Mordecai Johnson, 1890-1976, first                                                                                           Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968,
 Marion Anderson debuts at                                                       Eugenio Mario de Hostas, 1839-1903,       African American president of Howard     Charlotte Ray, 1850-1911, first African                                             African American minister, civil rights
 Metropolitan Opera House, 1955                                                  Puerto Rican writer and educator          University                               American woman lawyer in US, 1872                                                   leader, and pacifist

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 Tu B’Shvat (Jewish)                       Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, no    M-MSS Community Luncheon, 11              Timkat (Ethiopian Christian)
 World Religion Day (Baha’i)               classes, offices closed               a.m.-1:30 p.m., Garvey Husky Den
                                           Full Moon

                                                                                 Daniel Hale Williams, 1858-1931,
 Hiram Revels, 1822?-1901, first African   Mohamad Ali, 1942-2016, African       African American surgeon who per-
 American elected to US Senate, 1870       American boxer and human rights       formed first successful heart operation                                            Jade Snow Wong, 1922-, Chinese
 (anniversary of death)                    activist                              in 1893                                                                            American author and potter

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                                                                                 Third Quarter Moon                        CI-Sidestreet Activity Fair, 10 a.m.-3   World Holocaust Victims
                                                                                                                           p.m.                                     Remembrance Day
                                                                                 Conversion of St. Paul (Christian)
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 William Apess, 1798-1840, Pequot          New Moon                                                                                                                       Leadership Conference
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Osceola, 1800-1838, Seminole
 writer and civil rights activist                                                                                                                                              January 27-29                                                            resistance leader against US govern-
 Ella Cara Deloria, 1889-1971, Dakota                                                                                                                               www.stcloudstate.edu/powerindiversity                                               ment
 Sioux researcher and novelist                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Frederick Douglass publishes The
 Fred Korematsu, 1919-2005,                                                                                                Angela Davis, 1944-, African American                                                                                        North Star, 1847
 Japanese American civil rights activist                                                                                   author and activist

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“Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it
              would be if everyone was the same.”
                        – Angelina Jolie
FEBRUARY 2022
             Sunday                                   Monday                                  Tuesday                               Wednesday                              Thursday                                    Friday                                  Saturday
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                                                                                   Precinct Caucus, no classes after 6 p.m.   Groundhog Day                        Four Chaplains Sunday (Interfaith)                                                Vasant Panchami (Hindu)
                                                                                   Imbolc (Wicca)                             Lent begins (Christian)              SetSebun (Shinto)
                                                                                   Chinese New Year (Chinese Traditional)

        Black History Month                                                        I-Summer Education Abroad Program
                                                                                   Deadline
  For a complete listing of events, call (320) 308-3003                            Langston Hughes, 1902-1967, African                                                                                      Rosa Parks, 1913-2006, African
                                                                                   American leader of the Harlem                                                                                            American “Mother of the Civil Rights
                                                                                   Renaissance                                                                                                              Movement”

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                                          National Girls and Women in Sport        First Quarter Moon
                                          Day

 Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican                                                   Dawes General Allotment Act passed,        Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906,     Arthur Ashe wins Wimbledon
 Reggae musician                                                                   dissolving American Indian tribes and      African American poet and essayist   Championship, 1975                       Nelson Mandela released from South
                                                                                   dividing tribal lands, 1887                                                                                              African prison after 27 years, 1990

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                                          Valentine’s Day                          Nirvana Day (Buddhist, Jain)               Full Moon                            National Girls and Women in Sports
                                                                                                                              Magha Puja Day (Buddhist)            Day

                                                                                                                                                                   Geronimo, 1829?-1909, Chiricahua                                                  Amy Tan, 1952-, Chinese American
                                                                                                                                                                   Apache military leader (anniversary of   Toni Morrison, 1931-, African American   author
                                          Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895,                                                                                           death)                                                                            Executive Order 9066 enacted calling
                                          African American orator and journalist                                                                                                                            novelist
                                                                                   Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906, pioneer                                            Julia de Burgos, 1914-1953, Puerto       Luis Muñoz Marín, 1898-1980, Puerto      for the internment of 112,000 people of
                                          Masao Satow, 1908-1977, Japanese         in the Women’s Rights movement                                                  Rican poet and journalist                Rican political leader                   Japanese descent, including 71,000
                                          American civic leader                                                                                                                                                                                      American citizens, 1942

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 World Day of Social Justice              President’s Day Holiday, offices         M-MSS ConnecED Series Discussion,          Third Quarter Moon                   M-MSS Halenbeck Rec Night, 6-9                                                    Purim begins (Jewish)
                                          closed                                   Hybrid TBD                                                                      p.m., HaH

                                          Barbara Jordan, 1936-1996, first
                                          African American congresswoman
                                          from the deep South elected, 1972        Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin), 1876-
                                                                                   1938, Sioux writer and human rights
                                          Cherokee Phoenix, first Indian lan-
                                          guage newspaper published, 1828          activist
 Buffy Saint-Marie, 1941-, Cree singer-                                            Santiago Iglesias, 1872-1939, Spanish      W.E.B. Dubois, 1868-1963, African                                             Haing Ngor, 1951-1996, Cambodian
                                          Malcolm X assassinated in New York       Puerto Rican labor organizer and           American educator, author and poet   Shirley Chisholm become first African
 songwriter and human rights activist                                                                                                                              American congresswoman, 1968             American doctor and actor
                                          City, 1965                               political leader

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                                                                                                                              Actual date of Muslim
                                                                                                                              holidays may vary based                                       For a complete listing of campus events and
                                                                                                                              on appearance of the
                                                                                                                              moon. Jewish holidays                                             activities, check HuskiesConnect at
                                                                                                                              begin at sundown the day                                       https://huskiesconnect.stcloudstate.edu
 Occupation of Wounded Knee by
                                                                                                                              before they are listed.
 American Indian activists, 1973

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                                                    W-Women’s Center, 308-4958
“ We h a v e b e c o m e n o t a m e l t i n g p o t b u t a b e a u t i f u l m o s a i c .
  Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings,
                  different hopes, different dreams.”
                                  – Jimmy carter
MARCH 2022
            Sunday                                   Monday                                 Tuesday                            Wednesday                                 Thursday                                      Friday                               Saturday
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     National Women’s History Month                                               Lailat al Miraj (Islam)
                                                                                  Maha Shivaratri (Hindu)
                                                                                                                         New Moon
                                                                                                                         Nineteen Day Feast begins (Baha’i)
                                                                                  I-Fall Education Abroad Program
                                                                                  Deadline
 For a complete listing of campus events and
                                                                                  Blanche Bruce, 1841-1898, African
     activities, check HuskiesConnect at                                          American legislator during
                                                                                  Reconstruction
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Garrett Morgan, 1877-1963, African
                                                                                                                                                                                                           American inventor
                                                                                                                                                                 Indian Appropriations Act asserting
  https://huskiesconnect.stcloudstate.edu                                         Ralph Ellison, 1914-1994, African
                                                                                  American writer and lecturer
                                                                                                                         Puerto Ricans granted US citizenship,
                                                                                                                         1917                                    right of federal government to man-
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Langston Hughes awarded Spingarn
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Medal as “Black Poet Laureate,” 1960
                                                                                                                                                                 age American Indian affairs, 1871

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                                         Spring Break                             Spring Break                           Spring Break                            First Quarter Moon                        Spring Break
                                                                                  International Women’s Day                                                      Spring Break

 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014,
 Colombian novelist and journalist                                                                                                                               Harriet Tubman, 1820?-1913, “conduc-
 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision,                                                                                      Raul Julia, 1940-1994, Puerto Rican     tor” on the Underground Railroad          Creation of the Bureau of Indian
 1857                                                                                                                    actor                                   (anniversary of death)                    Affairs, 1824

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 Daylight Savings Time begins            Benito Juarez’ Birthday (Mexico)         Pesach-Passover begins (Jewish)                                                St. Patrick’s Day                         Full Moon                              Holi (Hindu)

                                                                                                                                                                 Bayard Rustin, 1912-1987, African                                                William Tucker, 1619-1727(?), first
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  African child born in the colonies
                                                                                                                                                                 American civil rights activist and                                               Mario Molina, 1943-, Mexican chemist
                                                                                                                                                                 pacifist                                                                         and Nobel Prize winner

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 Vernal Equinox                          Naw Ruz - New Year (Baha’i)              Emancipation Day (Puerto Rico)                                                                                           Third Quarter Moon                     Khordad Sal - Birth of Prophet
 Ostara (Wicca)                          Norooz - New Year (Persian/                                                                                                                                                                              Zaranthushtra (Zoroastrian)
                                         Zoroastrian)
                                         World Day to Eliminate Racial
                                         Discrimination

 Ramona Banuelos, 1925-, first Mexican   Robert Smalls, 1839-1915, African                                                                                       Dorothy Height, 1912-2010, civil rights                                          Eleanor Roosevelt resigns from DAR
 American woman US treasurer             American Civil War hero and legislator                                                                                  pioneer                                                                          when it bans Marion Anderson from
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  singing in Constitution Hall, 1939

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                                                                                  M-MSS ConnecED Series Discussion,                                              Cesar Chavez Day (California)                                                    Actual date of Muslim
                                                                                  Hybrid TBD                                                                                                                                                      holidays may vary based
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  on appearance of the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  moon. Jewish holidays
                                                                                                                                                                 Cesar Chavez, 1927-1993, Mexican                                                 begin at sundown the day
                                                                                                                                                                 American co-founder of United Farm
                                                                                                                                                                 Workers of America                                                               before they are listed.
 Anna Mae Aquash, 1945-1976,                                                      Robert Duncanson, 1821-1872, African                                           Octavio Paz, 1931-1998, Mexican
                                         American Negro Labor Congress            American landscape artist
 Mi’kmaq activist with AIM               organized, 1925                                                                                                         poet, writer and essayist

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“The only limit to the height of your
achievements is the reach of your dreams and
  your willingness to work hard for them.”
             – Michelle Obama
APRIL 2022
             Sunday                                Monday                                     Tuesday                                 Wednesday                                Thursday                                 Friday                                   Saturday
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 Actual date of Muslim                                                            Chicanx History Month                                                                                                      New Moon                                 Ramayana begins (Hindu)
 holidays may vary based                                                     For a complete listing of events, call (320) 308-3003                                                                           Hindi New Year (Hindu)
                                                                                                                                                                                                             I-Alnwick Fall Education Abroad
 on appearance of the                                                                                                                                                                                        Program Deadline
 moon. Jewish holidays
 begin at sundown the day                      For a complete listing of campus events and activities, check
 before they are listed.                       HuskiesConnect at https://huskiesconnect.stcloudstate.edu                                                                                                     Clara Hale, 1905-1993, African           Ronald Takaki, 1939-2009, Japanese
                                                                                                                                                                                                             American founder of Hale House           American author and scholar

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 Ramadan begins (Islam)                                                                                                                                                 M-MSS Halenbeck Rec Night, 6-9       Yom Hashoah - Holocaust                  First Quarter Moon
                                                                                                                                                                        p.m., HaH                            Remembrance Day (Jewish)

                                                                                                                                                                                                             Dennis Chávez, 1888-1962, Mexican        Dolores Huerta, 1930-, Mexican American
                                       Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, African                                                                                                                                      American senator from New Mexico,
                                       American poet                                                                                                                                                                                                  co-founder of United Farm Workers of
                                                                                   Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915,                                                                                          elected 1936                             America
                                       Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.                  African American educator, author and                                                                                     Robert Kiyosaki, 1947-, Japanese         Paul Robeson, 1898-1976, African
                                       assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.,1968         activist                                                                                                                  American entrepreneur and author         American actor, singer and political activist

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 Palm Sunday (Christian)               Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed             Workshop day for faculty, no classes,                                                Baisakhi—Sikh New Year               Good Friday (Christian)                  Full Moon
 Ramanavami (Hindu)                                                                offices open                                                                         Mahavir Jayanti (Jain)                                                        Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu)
                                                                                   Last day to withdraw for full term                                                   Maundy Thursday (Christian)
                                                                                   courses

 Mary Ovington, 1865-1951, African
 American co-founder of the National
 Association for the Advancement of                                                                                                                                                                          A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1982, African
 Colored People                        Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed                                                                                                                                       American labor leader and civil rights   José de Diego, 1866-1918, Puerto
                                                                                                                                                                                                             activist                                 Rican poet and nationalist

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 Easter Sunday (Christian)                                                                                                                                              Ridvan begins (Baha’i)               Earth Day                                Third Quarter Moon
                                                                                                                                                                        M-MSS Academic & Leadership          Pay Equity Day
                                                                                                                                                                        Awards and Graduation Celebration,
                                                                                                                                                                        4:30 p.m., AMC

                                                                                                                                George Takei, 1937-, Japanese
                                                                                                                                American actor and activist
                                                                                                                                Nelson Mandela gives “I am Prepared                                                                                   Granville Woods, 1856-1910, African
                                                                                                                                to Die” speech at Rivonia Trial, 1964                                                                                 American inventor

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                                                                                                                                                                                                             Last day of classes                      New Moon
                                                                                                                                                                                                             Laylat al Qadr (Islam)

                                                                                                                                First democratic election following                                          Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington,
                                       Ella Fitzgerald, 1917-1996, African                                                      apartheid held in South Africa, 1994                                         1899-1974, African American jazz
                                       American jazz singer                                                                                                                                                  musician

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“Respect for the rights of others means peace.”
               – Benito Juarez
MAY 2022
             Sunday                                  Monday                                   Tuesday                                 Wednesday                                Thursday                                    Friday                                   Saturday
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 May Day                                  Final exams                              Final exams                                  Final exams                            Final exams                              Spring Commencement
 Beltane (Wicca)                          Ramadan ends (Islam)                                                                                                         Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Jewish)
                                          Ridvan ends (Baha’i)                                                                                                         Cinco de Mayo (Mexico)

                                                                                                                                                                       Martin R. Delaney, 1812-1885, African
                                                                                                                                                                       American editor, author, abolitionist,
                                                                                                                                                                       physician                                Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
                                                                                   Septima Clark, 1898-1987, African                                                   Anniversary of SCSU Hunger Strike,       passed marking the first major restric-
                                                                                   American teacher and civil rights activist   Beginning of the Freedom Rides,1961    1995                                     tion on immigration to the US

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 First Quarter Moon                                                                                                             Deadline for reporting grades
 Mother’s Day
                                                                                  Ellen Ochoa, 1958-, first Mexican
                                                                                  American astronaut
                                                                                Pinckney Pinchback, 1837-1921, African
                                                                                American civil war officer and politician
                                          Kiyoshi Kuromiya, 1943-2000, Japanese Nelson Mandela inaugurated as
 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, 1753-1811,    American social justice               president of South Africa, 1994                                                                                                 Stevie Wonder, 1950-, African American
 Mexican political and military leader    activist                                                                                                                                                              musician and songwriter

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 Full Moon                                Summer Session 1 classes begin                                                        Lag B’Omer (Jewish)                                                                                                       World Day for Cultural Diversity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Armed Forces Day

                                                                                                                                Agusto Sandino, 1893-1934, leader of
                                                                                                                                Nicaraguan uprising against US
                                                                                                                                Marines in 1930, giving name to
                                                                                                                                Sandinistas                                                                                                               Lázaro Cárdenas, 1895-1970, Mexican
                                                                                                                                Mary McLeod Bethune, 1875-1955,        Malcolm X, 1925-1965, African                                                      president who instituted worker and
                                                                                   Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954           African American educatior             American civil rights leader                                                       agrarian reform

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 Third Quarter Moon                                                                Declaration of the Báb (Baha’i)              African Liberation Day                                                                                                    Ascension of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)

                                                                                                                                                                       Susette LaFlesche Tibbles, 1854?-
                                                                                   Ines Mexia, 1870-1938, Mexican American                                             1903, Omaha activist (anniversary of
 Granville Woods, African American                                                 botanical explorer                                                                  death)
 inventor, awarded patent for transmis-                                            James Thorpe, 1888-1953, American Indian
 sion of message by electricity, 1885                                              Olympic athlete and medal winner
                                                                                                                                                                       Indian Removal Act, 1830

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                                          Memorial Day, no classes, offices                                                                                                                                                                               Actual date of Muslim
                                          closed
                                          New Moon
                                                                                                                                       American Indian Awareness Month                                                                                    holidays may vary based
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          on appearance of the
                                                                                                                                    Asian Pacific American Heritage Month                                                                                 moon. Jewish holidays
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          begin at sundown the day
                                          National Association for the                                                                                                                                                                                    before they are listed.
Chien-Shiung Wu, 1912-1997,               Advancement of Colored People
Chinese American physicist                (NAACP) founded, 1910

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“ We m a y h a v e d i f f e re n t re l i g i o n s ,
   different languages, different
colored skin, but we all belong to
o n e h u m a n r a c e . We a l l s h a re t h e
           same basic values.”
                – Kofi Annan
JUNE 2022
               Sunday                               Monday                                    Tuesday                          Wednesday                                    Thursday                                 Friday                                 Saturday
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  Actual date of Muslim
  holidays may vary based
  on appearance of the                          LGBT Pride
  moon. Jewish holidays                           Month
  begin at sundown the day
  before they are listed.                                                                                                                                                                                  Charles R. Drew, 1904-1950, African
                                                                                                                                                                                                           American physician who pioneered
                                                                                                                                                                    Indian Citizenship Act, 1924           blood research                         Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989

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  Pentecost (Christian)                                                           First Quarter Moon

  			 Alfred Kazin, 1915-1998, Jewish
  		  American writer

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  Trinity Sunday (Christian)                                                      Full Moon                                                                         Guru Arjan Martyrdom (Sikh)
                                                                                  Flag Day

                                        Luis Alvarez, 1911-1988, Mexican                                                                                                                                   James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938,
                                        American physicist and winner of the                                                                                                                               African American writer, teacher and
                                        Nobel Prize                                                                                                                                                        civil rights activist
  Anne Frank, 1929-1945,                Medgar Evers, African American civil                                                                                                                               Susan LaFlesche Picotte, 1865-1915,
  diarist and writer                    rights leader, assassinated, 1963                                                                                                                                  Omaha physician

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  Juneteenth—commemoration of the       Juneteenth holiday observed, no           Litha-Yule (Wicca)                                                                Last day of Summer Session 1 classes                                          Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876
  news of the Emancipation              classes, offices closed                   First Nations Day (Canadian Native
  Proclamation reaching Texas in 1865   Third Quarter Moon                        People)
  Father’s Day

                                                                                  Joseph H. Rainey, 1832-1887, first                                                Wilma Rudolph, 1940-1994, African
  Eric Schweig, 1967-, Canadian Inuit                                             African American elected to US House                                              American Olympic athlete and medal     Ellison Onizuka, 1946-1986, Japanese
  actor/carver                                                                    of Representatives, 1870                                                          winner                                 American astronaut

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                                        Summer Session 2 classes begin            New Moon                               Deadline for reporting Summer Session
                                                                                                                         1 grades

                                        Anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion,                                                                                     Mee Moua, 1969-, first Hmong-
                                        1969                                                                             Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael),           American woman to be elected to a
                                        Grace Lee Boggs, 1915-, Chinese                                                  1941-1998, African American civil rights   state legislature (Minnesota).
                                        American activist and author                                                     leader

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          St. Cloud State University
CI-Campus Involvement, 308-2205                  L-LGBT Resource Center, 308-5166                                                                                                                                                 Admissions Office 1-877-654-7278
C-Career Center, 308-2152                        M-Multicultural Student Services, 308-3003
                                                 W-Women’s Center, 308-4958
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above
 the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the
            b ro a d e r c o n c e r n s o f a l l h u m a n i t y. ”
                – D r. M a r t i n L u t h e r K i n g J r.
JULY 2022
             Sunday                                   Monday                                    Tuesday                       Wednesday                                 Thursday                                      Friday                            Saturday
 Actual date of Muslim
 					1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        2
 holidays may vary based
 on appearance of the
 moon. Jewish holidays
 begin at sundown the day                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Medgar Evers, 1925-1963, African
 before they are listed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       American civil rights activist
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Thurgood Marshall, 1908-1993, African
		                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             American civil rights leaders and US
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Supreme Court Justice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Amistad Mutiny, 1839

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                                         Independence Day, no classes, offices                                          First Quarter Moon                                                                 Waqf al Arafa (Islam)               Eid al Adha-Sacrifice Day (Islam)
                                         closed

                                                                                                                                                                Judy Chu, 1953-, first Chinese
                                                                                                                                                                American woman elected to US
                                                                                                                                                                Congress
                                         Edmonia Lewis, 1845-?, African                                                                                         Michelle Kwan, 1980-, Asian American                                           June Jordan, 1936-2002, Caribbean
                                         American and Ojibwe sculptor                                                   Louise Erdrich, 1954-, Ojibwe writer    figure skater                                                                  American writer and activist

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                                                                                                                        Full Moon
                                                                                                                        Asalha Puja Day (Buddhist)

                                                                                                                                                                Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904-1991,
                                                                                                                                                                Jewish American writer                                                         Ida B. Wells-Barnet, 1862-1931, African
 Nicolás Guillén, 1902-1989, African                                                                                                                            Susana Martinez, 1959, first Latina gov-                                       American journalist and civil rights
 Cuban poet                                                                                                                                                     ernor (New Mexico) in U.S.                                                     activist

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                                         Nelson Mandela Day                                                             Third Quarter Moon

                                         Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013, elected
                                         president in South Africa’s first multira-                                     Carlos Santana, 1947-, Mexican singer
 Luis Muños Rivera, 1859-1916, Puerto    cial elections, 1994
 Rican political leader and journalist                                                                                  and songwriter

 24    Bella Abzug, 1920-1998, Jewish
       American women’s rights
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       advocator and legislator                                                                                                                                 New Moon
       Simon Bolivar, 1783-1830, South
       American leader for indepen-
       dence of Spanish colonies

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                                                                                      Americans with Disabilities Act
                                                                                      passed, 1990

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CI-Campus Involvement, 308-2205                     L-LGBT Resource Center, 308-5166                                                                                                                                                  Admissions Office 1-877-654-7278
C-Career Center, 308-2152                           M-Multicultural Student Services, 308-3003
                                                    W-Women’s Center, 308-4958
Multicultural Student Services                                                                                                LGBT Resource Center
                                                                                                                              Atwood Memorial Center 142 • 320-308-5166
St. Cloud State University                                                                                                    E-mail: lgbt@stcloudstate.edu
                                                                                                                              www.stcloudstate.edu/lgbt
720 Fourth Avenue South                                                                                                       The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center at St. Cloud State
St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301-4498                                                                                               University is dedicated to providing an inclusive and educational environment for
                                                                                                                              the SCSU campus community and the greater St. Cloud area. The center strives to
                                                                                                                              promote full inclusion of LGBT+ folk and allies at SCSU as well as work to
Multicultural Student Services                                                                                                intersectionally dismantle prejudice, discrimination, and oppression towards and
                                                                                                                              within the LGBT+ community.
E-mail: MSS@stcloudstate.edu
www.stcloudstate.edu/mss
       The Dr. Richard R. Green House                                                                                         Women’s Center
       827 4th Avenue South • (320) 308-5392                                                                                  Atwood Memorial Center 218 • 320-308-4958
       Houses the Multicultural Student Services tutoring program and Athletes for                                            E-mail: womenscenter@stcloudstate.edu
       Success in the Classroom program and is a place for intercultural                                                      www.stcloudstate.edu/womenscenter
       understanding and growth for all SCSU students and the St. Cloud                                                       The Women’s Center offers a comprehensive array of services and programming to
       community.                                                                                                             address a diverse student body and the unique needs of women and gender issues
                                                                                                                              on campus. Advocating for women, educating the campus community and
       Multicultural Activities Center                                                                                        advancing gender equity and safety are at the core of our work
       141 Atwood Memorial Center • (320) 308-3003
       Planning and organizing of co-curricular and social programs such as Rec
       Nights, Hmong Night, African Night, Black History Month, Somali Night                                                  Office of Admissions
       and Chicanx History Month.                                                                                             Administrative Sevices 115 • 1-877-654-7278
       Multicultural Academic Support Center                                                                                  E-mail: SCSU4U@stcloudstate.edu
       221 Centennial Hall • (320) 308-3952                                                                                   www.stcloudstate.ed
       Provides workshops, career and academic guidance, a quiet study area,
       computer lab and a mentoring program.
                                                                                                                              We hope that you will enjoy the 29th edition of the Multicultural Student Services
American Indian Center                                                                                                        Academic Diversity Calendar. Every effort is made to provide accurate information to
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E-mail: AIC@stcloudstate.edu                                                                                                  please contact our office. From all the staff at Multicultural Student Services we wish
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Provides academic support and opportunities for the intellectual, emotional, social
and cultural development of American Indian students and a gathering place for
those interested in learning more about the culture.

Center for International Studies
Lawrence Hall 101 • 320-308-4287
E-mail: international@stcloudstate.edu
www.stcloudstate.edu/internationalstudies
Explore the benefits of studying and living abroad through a variety of both major-
specific programs and many others that accept all majors. Education Abroad                                                    Special thanks to the staff of SCSU Printing Services for their assistance in the production of this calendar. Photos were provided by
                                                                                                                              friends of MSS and University Communications. Information for this calendar was collected through many different resources and
programs are available throughout the world for both short-term and semester-long                                             every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. If there are corrections to be made in next year’s calendar, please contact
opportunities.                                                                                                                Multicultural Student Services.

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assistance, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or status as a U.S. veteran. The Title IX coordinator at SCSU is Chocoletta Simpson. For additional
information, contact the Office for Institutional Equity & Access, (320) 308-5123, Admin. Services Bldg. Rm 121. Contact the sponsoring department/agency listed above.
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