Strengthening Campus Communities Through the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Framework

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