Constitution and Citizenship Day

SANS Technology Institute recognizes Constitution and Citizenship Day on or around September 17 each fall. Constitution Day commemorates the September 17, 1787 signing of the United States Constitution.  Federal observance of this day began in 1940 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a joint resolution to celebrate all who had “attained the status of citizenship” in America.

In 2004, a new act of congress augmented observance to include commemoration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution and mandated that all publicly funded institutions of higher education provide some form of educational programming to mark the occasion.