1st Edition
Strengthening Campus Communities Through the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Framework
This edited volume encourages and informs the transformational steps needed for a better, more equitable future for all. These efforts, being led by higher education institutions, complement existing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and are part of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s national Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation™ effort.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities is partnering with higher education institutions to develop TRHT Campus Centers dedicated to erasing barriers to equal treatment and opportunity on campuses, in communities, and throughout the nation at large. The narratives in this book include case study essay contributions from current TRHT Campus Centers that offer practical examples for translating the TRHT Framework into replicable strategies to inform constructive change. Contributions are drawn from a breadth of institution types including community colleges, liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, minority-serving institutions, faith-based institutions, regional comprehensives, and large research universities.
Timely, powerful, and well-supplied with practical strategies, this book is an ideal guide for any college educator interested in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; student leadership development; and models for institutional, structural, and systemic change.
1. Progress and Lessons Learned from Seven Years of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation™ Movement
PART I TRHT Framework: Visioning Work
2. A Campus Narrative of a Research-Informed Visioning Process: Duke University
3. When is the Right Time?: Middlesex Community College
4. Envisioning TRHT Work in the Deep South: Millsaps College
5. TRHT as a Visioning Tool for Standing up: Pepperdine University’s Office for Community
Belonging—Pepperdine University
6. Anticipating the Success of the First-Year TRHT Initiatives: Rutgers University–Camden
7. Visioning in the Midst of Transition: State University of New York at Oswego
PART II TRHT Framework: Narrative Change
8. Building Institutional Engagement to Support the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation
Framework: Adelphi University
9. Teaching a More Complete Narrative of our Past: Agnes Scott College
10. Narrative Change at the Citadel: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
11. Inclusive History and Images Project: Loyola Marymount University
PART III TRHT Framework: Racial Healing and Relationship Building
12. Racial Healing for the Healers: Rutgers University–Newark
13. Doing the Work of Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation: Spelman College
14. Translating the TRHT Framework into Replicable Strategies to Inform Transformational Change: UC Irvine’s Deconstructing Diversity Initiative—University of California, Irvine
PART IV TRHT Framework: Law
15. A Citadel Circle in Response to Mass Shootings and Gun Violence: The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
16. St. Petersburg Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Center: Racial Reckoning in 2020—St. Petersburg Higher Education for Race Equity
PART V TRHT Framework: Economy
17. Addressing Equity Across the State’s Educational Systems: Missouri College and Career Attainment Network
18. Campus-Wide Events to Explore Economy and Separation Pillar: Suffolk University
PART VI TRHT Framework: Separation
19. The First Peoples Project of the Alamo Colleges District: San Antonio’s Historic and Enduring Presence of Native Americans in the Global South—Alamo Community Colleges District
20. The Center for Culture, Equity, and Empowerment: Confronting the History of Marginalization in Higher Education—George Mason University
21. Co- Creating a Restorative Campus Culture: The Evolution of Loyola Marymount University’s TRHT Alliance—Loyola Marymount University
22. Disrupting Separation by Planting the Seeds of Narrative Change: Marymount University
23. It Takes a Spark to Build a Fire: Middlesex Community College
24. Race on Campus: A Faculty and Professional Learning Community Case Study—Suffolk University
25. Empowering Youth and Centering Indigenous Voices to Address Separation and Support
Healing: University of California, Irvine
26. An Expansive Approach to Defining and Capturing Meaningful TRHT Outcomes
27. From Framework to Praxis: Developing the TRHT-Focused Campus Climate Assessment Toolkit
Biography
Tia Brown McNair is Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Centers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, USA.
"Strengthening Campus Communities Through the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Framework is an invaluable resource for those seeking to promote racial justice and racial healing, both on campuses and in communities. The activities described in this book can inspire and guide those leading change. AAC&U deserves kudos for this project."
Michael Wenger, Senior Fellow, American Association of Colleges & Universities
“TRHT Campus Centers draw on the catalytic power of young, committed leaders who know that racial equity and justice will evolve through human connection, visionary courage and people of diverse backgrounds working side-by-side in common cause. Aided by professors and mentors, students across the country demonstrate that racial healing advances knowledge and empathy. The stories shared in this volume reaffirm my confidence that the next generation is picking up the baton of racial equity work with extraordinarily capable hands.”
La June Montgomery Tabron, President & CEO, W. K. Kellogg Foundation
“This volume gives readers hope. All across the US, young people and educators are building a movement for racial healing to transform our nation. The stories told here offer practical insights and inspiration for us all to follow.”
Heather McGhee, Author of the NYT bestselling book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
