Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center
In August 2017, 狼友社区 was selected by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) to be one of ten universities nationwide to host a聽Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Center. This selection came with a $30,000 grant to create a campus center, which will,聽, 鈥渂e designed to engage and empower campus and community stakeholders to break down racial hierarchies and create a positive narrative about race in the community.鈥
Through a competitive process, institutions were selected based on the ability of their proposals to create a positive narrative about race, identify and examine current realities of race relations in their communities, envision communities without entrenched racial hierarchies, and pinpoint levers for change and key individuals to engage. 狼友社区 is proud to be at the forefront of such a vital endeavor.
Vision
狼友社区鈥檚 vision for a TRHT Campus Center is to create inclusive convening spaces for intergroup conversation, dialogue, and learning that incorporates conversation into individual and institutional action to create sustainable change for racial understanding and equity. The center aims to reconcile competing historical and contemporary racial narratives that encompass varied individual and collective truths and lived experiences. Working collaboratively with people, groups, and organizations in the community, the center will investigate knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes that build and sustain intersectional discovery, practice, and transformative healing.
These foundational pillars support this vision and guide the work:
- Recognition of past and present injury and injustice based on racial hierarchy and white supremacy
- Collaboration with and connection between historically marginalized and historically empowered communities to uncover and renegotiate dominate narratives and 鈥渢ruths鈥
- Creation of strategies for sustainable reconciliation, restoration, and healing for individuals, institutions, communities, and society
Media coverage
To read more about 狼友社区鈥檚 TRHT initiative, see:
- 听(Association of American Colleges and Universities)
- 听(Associated Press)
- 听(Fox 9)
- 听(U.S. News & World Report)
- 听(Star Tribune)
- 听(Pioneer Press)
- 听(Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
- 听(Post Bulletin /聽)
