K-State TRHT Campus Center

The Action Plan for a More Inclusive K-State called on the university to implement a Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) framework modeled after a national program developed by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

Kansas State University (KSU) TRHT Campus Center has the following goals:

Tell Kansas State University inclusive history
Healing and Relationship Building
Enhace Community Well-being

Tell K-State inclusive history

Healing and Relationship Building

Enhance Community Well-Being

Overview

Vision Statement

Kansas State University (KSU) envisions a TRHT Campus Center that advocates for underserved populations, strives to eliminate hatred and prejudice, and amplifies historically silenced or ignored voices. As a result of historical injustices and systemic oppression, it is critical Kansas State University cultivate places of belonging while removing barriers to equitable access to a college education where students, staff, faculty, and community members can grow intellectually, socially, economically, and civically. KSU commits itself to building affirming environments and learning communities that value our backgrounds and intersectionalities and contribute to the inherent dignity and growth of all.

Read the action plan (pdf)

Goals

Goal #1: Tell the inclusive historical story of Kansas State University that fully integrates marginalized members into the primary historical narrative of our campus and the local community. Kansas State University’s history should address the complex experiences of all community members. Kansas State University’s story will include the appropriate historical context of marginalized people's experiences and share the contemporary relevance of those experiences.
Goal #2: Utilize existing assets to strategically implement community healing spaces at K-State as a first step of building coalitions towards institutional and individual healing from sustained trauma caused by the fallacy of racial and human hierarchy.
Goal #3: Develop conditions that enhance the community’s well-being capacity by creating holistic programs that remove barriers to access and prioritize equity for students, faculty, staff and the Manhattan community.

View action steps and outputs in our Action Plan (pdf)

Committee Members

Corey Williamson, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Office; Project Lead
Tamara Bauer, Staley School of Leadership
Christopher Bowman, Morrison Family Center for Student Well-Being
Tyrone Carter, Housing and Dining
Kimathi Choma, College of Arts and Sciences
Kevin Cook, Division of Academic Success and Student Affairs
Tanya Gonzalez, Provost Office
Brandon Haddock, Spectrum Center
McKenna Johnson, Student Leader/Mortar Board
Rana Johnson, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Office
Julie Kehr, Housing and Dining
Kerri Keller, Career Center
Thomas Lane, Division of Academic Success and Student Affairs
Ryan Leimkuehler, Hale Library
Zanete Malan, Housing and Dining
Jason Maseberg Tomlinson, Student Access Center
Jessica Ramirez, Graduate Student Leader
Leah Roane, Student Leader
Del'Sha Roberts, Staley School of Leadership
Cia Verschelden, Manhattan Community Member

News Archive

Kansas TRHT Campus Center Collaborative, February 13, 2024

K-State selected as Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Center, November 18, 2022

K-State selected to participate in Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Summer Institute, May 2, 2022

New duties for two Division of Student Life directors, July 7, 2021

Diversity Action Plan update: Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Plan, April 28, 2021