Vision
Inspired by our university mission, the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Center Alliance at Loyola Marymount University will transform our campus culture through humanization, dialogue, and belongingness.
Goals
- Serve as a hub to coordinate cross-campus efforts to address instances of impact or harm using a restorative framework:
- Develop a collective understanding among all constituents of the need to prioritize proactive relationship-building as a foundation for making generative conflict possible.
- Leverage the dual appointment of the TRHT Alliance director as University Ombuds to educate the campus community about how to address conflict in supported ways that strengthen relationships and improve campus climate.
- Continue to build capacity among faculty, staff, and students to develop related skills and competencies.
- More transparently articulate connections between the TRHT framework and our University’s mission:
- Express the relationship between our commitment to educating the whole person and the power of self-reflective storytelling to deepen empathy and understanding.
- Foster interfaith work as one fruitful pathway toward increasing a sense of belonging among all community members.
- Deepen and sustain relationships grounded in mutuality and reciprocity, informed by the TRHT framework:
- Reckon with the historical role of the Catholic Church in promoting colonialism, slavery, and other racist practices, especially the harm inflicted upon the indigenous peoples of the land our campus occupies.
- Nurture partnerships with entities on campus whose work aligns with the TRHT framework.
- Nurture partnerships with community-based organizations whose work aligns with the TRHT framework.