“And this is the urgency, this is the core of the movement beginning to take hold nationwide in postsecondary education: trauma-informed higher education means seeing that trauma, adversity, and violence already exist as consequential forces in the lives of students as well as in the culture and practices that constitute higher education. Inadequate recognition of this prevalence undermines educational reform because it fails to see in whole or in part the fundamental mechanisms that either support or dysregulate cognition, relationships, and behaviors. Incorporating awareness of trauma and adversity also reveals strategies that contribute to academic resilience vital to authentic equity and inclusion in higher education and the health and well-being of our national workforce, citizenry, and community.”

-Tietjen “Naming the Urgency”