Welcome to the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Center (TRHT) at ACC, a partnership with our community to build cross-racial relationships that lead to racial healing and an exploration of ways to transform the college and community for greater inclusion and equity.
ACC is one of ten universities nationwide to be named a campus center in a multi-year initiative to educate, prepare, and inspire the next generation of leaders to break down racial hierarchies. Together, we are changing the racial narrative in Central Texas.
Truth
To create and distribute new complex and complete narratives that can influence people’s perspectives, perceptions, and behaviors about and toward one another.
Racial Healing
To heal a societal racial divide requires recognition of the need to acknowledge the wrongs of the past while addressing the consequences of those wrongs.
Transformation
To embrace racial healing and uproot the conscious and unconscious belief in a hierarchy of human value that limits equal access to education, employment, housing, and health care.
Vision, Mission & Goals
Eliminate racial disparities and disproportionality in disciplinary outcomes across P-16 institutions.
Eliminate racial disparities and disproportionality in academic outcomes across P-16 institutions.
Eliminate racial disparities and disproportionality in regional criminal justice outcomes.
The Truth Racial Healing and Transformation Center will focus on eliminating system-inflicted trauma and its long-term deleterious impacts on the community.
Austin Community College (ACC) envisions a community where race, ethnicity, and other human differences are no longer predictors of success and well-being in any sector of the community. This includes the elimination of barriers (policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages) that reinforce differential outcomes by race.