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Michelle Strange, Bellevue College, United StatesConsuelo Grier, Bellevue College, United States
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Bellevue College, a mid-size institution near Seattle, Washington, established restorative practices across the campus to advance equity, trust, healing, and accountability for its staff, faculty, and students through the Office of Community Care & Institutional Transformation (OCCIT). Responding to issues of institutional trauma, community harm, oppression, and mistrust, OCCIT created a Director of Restorative Practices position to support the college’s efforts in shifting the campus culture and climate while re-defining and re-enforcing its values through a restorative lens. OCCIT strategically integrated restorative practices across the college through proactive, responsive, and education-based initiatives. Data collected from participants of the restorative initiatives showed greater cross-campus community engagement and increased knowledge of restorative tools to navigate harm and address conflict. With the persistence of oppressive dynamics nationally, interpersonally, and within higher education, restorative practices offer a strategic path for transforming campus culture and climate.
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Conference: ACSS2025Stream: Ethnicity
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Strange M., & Grier C. (2025) A Case for Restorative Practices as Strategic Transformation Efforts in Higher Education ISSN: 2186-2303 – The Asian Conference on the Social Sciences 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 553-563) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2025.46
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-2303.2025.46
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