Initiative
AAC&U is partnering with higher education institutions to develop Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation™ (TRHT) Campus Centers to prepare the next generation of leaders to break down systemic racism and dismantle belief in a hierarchy of human value
The goal of AAC&U’s TRHT Campus Centers effort is to partner with higher education institutions to develop at least 150 self-sustaining, community-integrated Centers. AAC&U is currently collaborating with seventy-two institutions that are serving as host locations and are implementing visionary action plans with the shared goal of erasing barriers to equal treatment and opportunity on campuses, in our communities, and for our nation. The effort is centered around the pillars of the TRHT Framework: narrative change, racial healing and relationship building, separation, law, and economy.
More information about the TRHT Framework can be found here.
Launched by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation™ (TRHT) effort seeks to help communities embrace racial healing and eliminate conscious and unconscious beliefs in a hierarchy of human value.
The TRHT effort promotes inclusive and community-based healing activities and policy designs that seek to change community narratives and broaden the understanding of diverse experiences among people.
More information about the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s TRHT effort can be found here.
AAC&U TRHT/TCHT campus centers work with communities to embrace racial healing and uproot conscious and unconscious beliefs in the hierarchy of human value. Campus Centers were created as part of AAC&U's partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) effort.
The TRHT effort prioritizes inclusive, community-based healing activities and policy designs that seek to change collective community narratives and broaden the understanding that Americans have of their diverse experiences.
A web-based toolkit that complements existing campus climate assessment tools and offers reflection-based and action-oriented guidance, strategies, and tools informed by the TRHT approach to support institutional transformation efforts.
Framed by a personal narrative detailing Dr. Gail C. Christopher's commitment to help our nation to jettison the false belief in a racial hierarchy, Rx Racial Healing: A Guide to Embracing Our Humanity provides individuals an overview of the methodology, tools, and resources to facilitate and engage in the Rx Racial Healing approach for transformational change in colleges, organizations, and communities.
We Hold These Truths describes the work of Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers at colleges and universities across the country to dismantle the tools that perpetuate oppression and entrenched racial hierarchies. By creating positive narratives about race, identifying and examining current realities of race relations in communities, pinpointing levers for change, and engaging key individuals, the narratives included in this volume illustrate the power of what can be accomplished when you have a vision for change.
Questions?
If you have questions or would like additional information about the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers, please email Cierra Szalony at cszalony@aacu.org.