Pullias Lecture Closeup: Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers
When Tia Brown McNair, Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success, Association of American Colleges and Universities and Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Lipe, Native Hawaiian Affairs Program Officer, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, deliver the 42nd Pullias Lecture at USC on September 15, 2020 (register now), the topic will be “Advancing Racial Equity through Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers.” So, what exactly is a TRHT Campus Center?
The program is supported through funding from Newman’s Own Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. AAC&U partners with higher education institutions to develop these centers that prepare the next generation of strategic leaders and thinkers to break down racial hierarchies and dismantle the belief in the hierarchy of human value. The process prioritizes inclusive, community-based healing activities and policy design that seek to change collective community narratives and broaden the understanding that Americans have for their diverse experiences.
AAC&U convened the inaugural TRHT Campus Centers Institute in January of 2018. There, more than one hundred faculty, staff, and students from the first ten Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Centers participated in a five-day professional development program focused on preparing TRHT Campus Center action plans. AAC&U recently announced the addition of 13 more institutions that will host TRHT Campus Centers, bringing the total up to 23. The goal of this effort is the development of at least 150 self-sustaining, community-integrated TRHT Campus Centers.
The TRHT Campus Centers have developed and are implementing visionary action plans with the aim of moving the needle on the transformative goal of erasing structural barriers to equal treatment and opportunity on campuses, in communities, and across our nation around the pillars of the TRHT Framework: narrative change, racial healing and relationship building, separation, law, and economy.
“With a focus on love instead of fear, TRHT has an opportunity to do something really powerful,” notes McNair in an AAC&U video. AAC&U plans to continue partnering with higher education institutions across the country to prepare the next generation of leaders to dismantle the belief in the hierarchy of human value and confront racism in our society.
Attend the 42nd Pullias Lecture on March 12, 2020 at USC for unique insight into how Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers can advance racial equity in higher education.
Agenda for Pullias Lecture:
Advancing Racial Equity through Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers
Thursday, March 12th,2020
11am Check in at USC Town & Gown
11:30am Welcome from Dean Gallagher
11:34am Welcome by Adrianna Kezar and Introduction of Julia Bogany
11:36am Land acknowledgment by Julia Bogany, Gabrielino Tongva Tribe
11:40am Introduction of speakers from Adrianna Kezar
11:45am-12:45pm talk
11:50am – Tia McNair discussion background and framework of project
12:00pm – Video
12:05pm – Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Lipe to describe Hawaii campus and their work in project
12:15pm – Discussion of 3 lessons learned across the projects with reflects on Hawaii campus in particular
12:30pm – Closing
12:30pm -12:45pm Questions
12:45pm -1:30pm Lunch
2:00pm – End
You can also watch these AAC&U videos to learn about TRHT Campus Centers…