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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Guide

This guide provides information and resources for the college's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging celebrations.

Bryant & Stratton College Celebrates Developmental Disability Awareness Month in March 2024

Bryant & Stratton College Celebrates Women’s History Month & National Developmental Disability Awareness Month in March 2023

Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. The movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women’s History Week celebrations the following year.

In 1980, a consortium of women’s groups and historians—led by the National Women’s History Project (now the National Women's History Alliance)—successfully lobbied for national recognition. In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th 1980 as National Women’s History Week."-National Women's History Museum.

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