Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation™ (TRHT) Campus Center Videos

The Citadel’s TRHT Campus Center has been conducting archival research dating back to the antebellum period on the histories of racially minoritized members of the campus community, including the first cadets from Cuba and China in the early 20th century. This video captures how the act of lifting up the histories and voices from the past helps those in the campus community today to see themselves in the institution’s story. These efforts are changing the institutional narrative of where they came from, who they are today, and where they are headed together.

To elevate and apply the TRHT Framework as a driver of sustained transformation, Duke University's TRHT Campus Center offers a multidimensional engagement program comprised of activities, collaborations, and partnerships involving diverse stakeholder groups on campus, in Durham, and beyond. Focusing on their racial healing and relationship building efforts, this video showcases their approaches to and research on Rx Racial Healing® Circles.

Middlesex Community College’s TRHT Campus Center is actively engaging with the campus community to address equity and opportunity gaps among students by identifying systems, policies, and practices that may enforce separation. This video highlights key examples of how the college is moving this work forward, such as by joining national support networks, decolonizing curricula through its Faculty Fellows Program, and facilitating Rx Racial Healing® Circles.

A focus of the visioning work of Otterbein University’s TRHT Campus Center is examining and challenging the inequities and false belief in a racial hierarchy that exist within educational systems. Through the cultivation of strong partnerships with K-12 school districts in Central Ohio, they have engaged educators and middle school, high school, and college students in a variety of efforts and activities. This video showcases examples of how they have implemented their vision along with pieces of advice and lessons learned from their work.

Rutgers University – Newark’s TRHT Campus Center is addressing structural inequality and barriers to economic opportunities through its partnership with the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP) Program. Students from the program are involved in the Center’s racial healing programs, including becoming trained facilitators of Rx Racial Healing® Circles. This video captures the narratives of some NJ-STEP participants and shares how they have utilized these opportunities and resources to give back to their community.

Stetson University College of Law, as part of the SPHERE Consortium and the Florida Law Schools’ Consortium for Racial Justice, is engaging students in education and research on racial equity. In particular, the SPHERE Consortium’s Racial Justice Fellows Program is a joint effort among the four participating institutions that offers students an opportunity to learn about shaping policy and systems. This video explores the connections between law and racial justice as well as features the Fellows’ legislative advocacy efforts.

The University of Cincinnati’s TRHT Campus Center showcases its visioning work through its involvement with the Cincinnati Coalition for TRHT, a collective of cross-sector organizations working to dismantle structural racism and cultivate racial equity in the Greater Cincinnati region. This video highlights the Equity Champions Program, which is a leadership program for community members to learn about racial inequity within the history of Cincinnati and to work on advocacy projects that promote healing and advance systems-level change.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa TRHT Campus Center reflects on Hawaiʻi’s pre-colonial history; how people valued connection and took care of each other to collectively care for the land around them, and how those values can be carried forward to today. This video shares this history and how the practice of moʻokūʻauhau – genealogy, the many lineages that shape us – is a foundational step towards dismantling the belief in a false hierarchy of human value that has disconnected us from ourselves, each other, our ancestors, and our natural environment, as moʻokūʻauhau is an invitation to seek reconnection with one another.