"How can higher education, with its local communities, prepare
graduates to address the legacies of
racism and the opportunities for racial
reconciliation in the United States?"
This question is organizing AACU's initiative sponsored by the Ford
Foundation. Through this initiative -- Racial Legacies and Learning: An
American Dialogue -- AAC&U is working with colleges, universities, and
community organizations across the country to organize dialogues and
seminars that address the legacies and challenges of race in our past,
present and future.
The project began with participation in a national Campus Week of Dialogue on Race in April, 1998, continued with campus-community study-dialouges on project campuses in the Spring and Fall of 1998, and culminated with a televised Town Hall meeting involving over 300 campuses and co-sponsored with PBS Adult Learning Service in January, 1999.
Racial Legacies and Learning is the latest project
of AAC&U's multi-project initiative, American
Commitments: Diversity, Democracy and Liberal Learning.
Resources for Creating Campus-Community
Partnerships
and Study-Dialogues
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