Mother Theresa Maxis, IHM Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
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The Mother Theresa Maxis, IHM Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT)
After a competitive process in 2019, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) selected Marywood University as one of 13 institutions to host a Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Center in the second cohort. As a national, community-based initiative, the TRHT effort seeks to address the historical and contemporary effects of race and racism within our communities.Initiated through a partnership with AAC&U and funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the vision of TRHT Centers is to prepare the next generation of leaders to confront racism, affirm human dignity, and to dismantle the belief in a hierarchy of human value. Marywood's Center was officially renamed the Mother Theresa Maxis, IHM Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation on May 9, 2024, and it is located on the second floor of the Learning Commons.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
The Center’s name honors the co-founder of the IHM Congregation, Mother Theresa Maxis, a mixed race woman with a pioneering spirit, who devoted her life, vocation, and work to promoting justice and serving the poor. Her life of justice, service, and faith inspires and flows through the Marywood University mission. Both the Center and Mother Theresa emphasize this model of deep faith and a mission-driven commitment to creating a more equitable and compassionate world through education, awareness, and initiatives on behalf of the common good.
The Center is available to provide information about:
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TRHT resources for faculty, staff, and students
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Organizations devoted to equity and inclusion on-and-off campus
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Potential research opportunities
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Community engagement activities
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Upcoming events
In partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation effort, AAC&U works with higher education institutions across the country to develop self-sustaining, community-integrated TRHT Campus Centers. Organized around the five pillars of the TRHT framework—narrative change, racial healing and relationship building, separation, law, and economy—the Centers seek to educate and prepare the next generation of leaders to confront racism, affirm human dignity, and to dismantle the belief in a hierarchy of human value.
Elevate Your Knowledge
Learn more about the life of Mother Theresa Maxis, co-founder of the IHM Congregation, by reading Paths of Daring Deeds of Hope, the fascinating collection of letters by and about Theresa, edited by the late Sister Margaret Gannon, IHM. The second edition of the book is available on Amazon.
