Curriculum

The institute curriculum will support existing and potential TRHT Campus Center teams in developing, refining, and refreshing transformative action plans to advance the five components of the TRHT framework: narrative change, racial healing and relationship building, separation, law, and economy. Together, these five areas encompass the individual, communal, and systemic structures that perpetuate the false belief in a hierarchy of human value. This work will culminate in an opportunity for discussion and feedback from mentors, participants, evaluators, and the AAC&U TRHT team.

Institutions chosen to participate will:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive action plan to:
  • Create positive narrative change about race in the community
  • Promote racial healing activities on campus and in the community
  • Eradicate structural barriers to equal treatment and opportunity within the economic, legal, educational, and residential components of the community
• Examine the contemporary realities of the impacts of difference and bias in their communities, as well as the local history that has led to these realities
• Envision what their communities will look, feel, and be like when the false belief in a hierarchy of human value no longer exists, believing instead in our common humanity
• Learn to pinpoint critical levers for change and to engage key stakeholders

The institute schedule features:

• Team time to work on action plans
• Individual team consultations with institute mentors, evaluation consultants, and AAC&U TRHT team leaders
• Rx Racial Healing® Circles to engage participants in building trust and understanding among diverse groups
• Plenary sessions, concurrent workshops, and interactions with other campus teams