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.
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.
Conducted by the National Collaborative for Health Equity, this annual explores how American understand their experiences of disunity in our country, their visions for overcoming these divisions, and strategies for promoting racial healing.
Plenary Discussion: “The Power of Belief,” Gail Christopher, Founder of the Ntianu Center for Healing and Nature, Executive Director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity and Lynn Pasquerella, President of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
Embracing our common humanity and permanently eliminating persistent racial inequities
Reflecting on Those We’ve Lost and a Process for Healing and Transformation
The funding from Lumina Foundation, Trellis Foundation, ETS, and Wiley Education Services will support the establishment of fifteen new TRHT Campus Centers.
With particular attention to the role of higher education, this special issue provides an overview of the wide-ranging TRHT effort to heal racial divides in communities across the country.
On this episode of the Higher Education Anti-Racist Teaching (H.E.A.R.T.) podcast, Lynn Pasquerella (AAC&U) and Frank Tuitt (University of Connecticut) explore the foundations of the TRHT effort, the vision for implementing the TRHT framework at UConn, and the potential impact it can have for antiracist teaching in higher education.
On this episode of the Higher Education Anti-Racist Teaching (H.E.A.R.T.) podcast, Tia Brown McNair (AAC&U) and Jeffrey Hines (UConn Health) draw on key ideas from the TRHT framework to shed light on how racial equity work is not solely the responsibility of a few, but rather, the responsibility of all community members.
Support Truth, Community Healing & Transformation on Campus
To support AAC&U's TCHT effort in advancing quality and equity in higher education, we invite members of our community to donate to the Truth, Community Healing, & Transformation fund today.