In Observance of Juneteenth
Posted: June 17, 2026
ATSU faculty, staff, and students,
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
To learn more about Juneteenth, please visit the ATSU Diversity Calendar.*
In observance of this significant milestone in our nation’s history, ATSU offices and patient care centers in Kirksville, Missouri; Mesa, Arizona; Santa Maria, California; and St. Louis, Missouri, will be closed on Friday, June 19, 2026. Facility access will be limited. The Kirksville Thompson Campus Center will also be closed.
To view library hours at each location, please click here.
*Click on the blue calendar tile and select Juneteenth.
Yours in service,
Craig M. Phelps, DO, ’84
Chancellor