I&E Institute Learning Opportunities
Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT)
Date and Time
Thursday, January 29, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Location
City Campus in Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences (CHS) building Rm# 290
Description
As part of the 2026 National Day of Racial Healing (January 20), the Inclusion and Equity Institute at GVSU invites interested faculty and staff to join its second cohort of TRHT participants. Through TRHT, participants build relationships, trust, and collective power. Those relationships lay the groundwork for powerful systemic change, supporting participants to re-envision and reshape their institution’s policies and practices.
Space in this cohort is limited to 30 participants. There is no fee to participate and copies of Rx Racial Healing will be provided to all who register, in advance of the first session. Meetings will take place on the City Campus on the following dates/times:
- Thursday, January 29th: 4-5:30PM
- Thursday, February 19th: 4-5:30PM
- Thursday, March 26th: 4-5:30PM
We hope you will join us! Participants from past cohorts universally described the experience as energizing, transformative, and a constructive avenue toward building sustainable change.
Learning Outcomes - Participants will be able to:
- Read and discuss Dr. Gail C. Christopher's Rx Racial Healing: A Guide to Embracing Our Humanity, which outlines the TRHT process
- Participate in a series of conversations that are designed to bring people together in safe spaces to build authentic relationships grounded in appreciation, respect, and trust that extend across and within racial groups
- Identity specific action steps that participants can take to heal racial divides and transform Grand Valley into a less segregated, more equitable, diverse, and inclusive institution
Presenters:
- Dr. Janelle Grant Ashbaugh (She/Her/Hers) Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations, College of Education and Community Innovation
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Dr. Melanie Shell-Weiss (She/Her/Hers) Interim Dean of University Libraries and Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies
This event has been tagged as inclusion.
Contact
Inclusion & Equity Institute
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 616-331-4111