Engagement Opportunities

January is Poverty in America Awareness Month 
 

• 1/27: OKC MLK Day Parade collaborating with BSA, BLSA, and NAACP/ Downtown OKC / 2 p.m.
• 1/31: Lunar New year celebration collaborating with SAC, PIAAA, and SGA / Student Lounge / 6 - 8 p.m.
   

January Holidays: World Braille Day (1/4); Makar Sankranti (1/15); Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day (1/15); World Religion Day (1/21); National Day of Racial Healing (1/16); International Holocaust Remembrance Day (1/27)

February is Black History and Heritage Month 
 

• 2/8: Celebrate Lunar New Year partnering with PIAAA/ tabling outside the Caf/ 12 – 2 p.m.
• 2/8: International and Graduate Student Night partnering with Petree, Meinders, Student Affairs, and Athletics / Freede / 7 - 9 p.m.
• 2/13: Celebrate Black History & Heritage Month partnering with BSA / tabling outside the Caf/ 12 – 2 p.m.
• 2/18: 2024 Miss OKC Indian Oklahoma Powwow Pageant partnering with NAS & NALSA / Freede / 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.
• 2/20: Lessons in Leadership Black History & Heritage Speaker with Clara Luper Legacy Committee partnering with Student Affairs and Alumni Relations / Great Hall / 1 - 2 p.m.

February Holidays: Lunar New Year (2/10); Ash Wednesday (2/14); Nirvana Day (2/15); World Day of Social Justice (2/20)

March is Women’s History Month

• 3/7: OCU & Friends Market - Celebrating International Women's Day with SAC & Career Services / 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m., Great Hall & 5 - 7 p.m., Quad
• 3/12: Women’s History Month Panel & OCU Influential Women Ceremony/ Great Hall / 12 - 2 p.m.
• 3/28: Celebrate Holi collaborating with Student Affairs, ISA, and PIAAA /Quad/ 6 - 8 p.m.

March Holidays: Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month; Purim (3/6); International Women’s Day (3/8); Maha Shivarati (3/8); Ramadan begins (3/10); Holi (3/24); Palm Sunday (3/24); Good Friday (3/29); International Transgender Day of Visibility (3/31); Easter (3/31)

April is Volunteer Month

April Holidays: Arab American Heritage Month; Minority Health Month; Autism Awareness Month; Celebrate Diversity Month; World Autism Awareness Day (4/2); Laylat al-Qadr (4/5); Eid-al-Fitr/End of Ramadan (4/9); Passover begins (4/22); Passover ends (4/30);

May is Asian American Pacific Islander & Jewish American Heritage Month
 

• 5/4: OCU Commencement
• 5/11: OCU Law Commencement

May Holidays: Haitian Heritage Month; Indian Heritage Month; Mental Health Awareness Month; Speech and Hearing Awareness Month; Yom Hashoah (5/5); Declaration of the Bab (5/23); Memorial Day (5/27); Ascension of Baha’ullah (5/29)