Webinar

Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers: Preparing the Next Generation of Leaders to Confront Racism

An increasing aversion to difference and the growing number of racial incidents have left colleges and universities with the challenge of how to affect change and to heal from the legacies and harms of racism.

March 6, 2019

An increasing aversion to difference and the growing number of racial incidents have left colleges and universities with the challenge of how to affect change and to heal from the legacies and harms of racism. This webinar discussed the efforts of the first ten Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers in addressing the historical and contemporary effects of racism to bring about transformative and sustainable change for our students, in our communities, and across our country.

Representatives from the TRHT Campus Centers at Austin Community College, Hamline University, Rutgers University–Newark, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shared how they are implementing specific strategies to achieve the goals of the TRHT effort on their campuses and in their local communities through authentic partnerships, understanding the narrative on race at their respective campuses, racial healing circles, and professional development.

AAC&U’s goal is to partner with at least 150 higher education institutions to host TRHT Campus Centers that seek to prepare the next generation of strategic leaders and thinkers to dismantle the belief in the hierarchy of human value that has fueled systemic and structural racism. We cannot ignore our history. We must learn from it to transform our future.

Moderator

  • Tia Brown McNair

    Tia Brown McNair

    Vice President, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success, Association of American Colleges and Universities

Presenters

  • David Everett

    David Everett

    Associate Vice President for Inclusive Excellence, Hamline University
  • Stephanie Hawley

    Stephanie Hawley

    Associate Vice President, Office of Equity and Inclusion, Austin Community College
  • Kaiwipuni Lipe

    Kaiwipuni Lipe

    Native Hawaiian Affairs Program Officer, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Sharon Stroye

    Sharon Stroye

    Director of Public Engagement for the School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University– Newark