Tunnel of Awareness is an immersive experience that brings awareness to contemporary social justice topics impacting the TTU community and our local and global communities. It aspires to develop engaged citizens and leaders in the TTU community, region, and world who serve as engaged representatives for social change.
About The Tunnel
The Tunnel is a campus grassroots diversity program that originated in 1993 at Western Illinois University. Using the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California as a model, the Tunnel strives to give people a way to experience oppression in a hands-on way. By engaging the emotions of the participants, it allows for the accounts expressed in the program to be truly effective. People may have never been placed in these types of situations, and they obtain a sense of what it may feel like to experience discrimination or oppression. While the Tunnel may evoke strong emotions, it can be an effective tool used to teach people about how it really feels to be in various situations. After the incredible response and positive feedback we received over the last several years, the Tunnel has now become an annual event.
Resources
Campus Offices
- Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center
- Military Veterans Programs
- Office for Student Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct (Title IX)
- Raider Education
- Raider Relief
- Risk Intervention & Safety Education (RISE)
- Student Disabilities Services
- Women's Studies Program
- Requesting Accommodations at Colleges/Universities
Campus Clubs and Organizations
Have a club or organization you would like to add? Email Anna Burton at anna.burton@ttu.edu.
General Civil Rights Organizations
- Association of People with Disabilities
- Alliance for Full Acceptance
- American Indian Movement
- Anti-Defamation League
- Consortium of Higher Education LGBT
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Day of Silence Project
- Diversity Inc.
- Gay-Straight Alliance Network
- Genocide, Holocaust & Democide
- Human Rights Campaign
- Human Rights Watch
- In These Times
- Interfaith Youth Core
- Love Is Respect
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Slavery Footprint
- Social Justice Training Institute
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Students and Teachers Against Racism
- Teaching Tolerance
- The Leadership Conference of Civil Rights
- UD Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights
- UD Department of Justice
- US Department of Education
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Voices of Hope, Lubbock Rape Crisis Center
- Women's Protective Services of Lubbock
- 1 is 2 Many
Contact Us
Do you have questions? Would you like more information about supporting Tunnel of Awareness at Texas Tech University? Please email the Director for Student Leadership Development, Anna Burton at Anna.Burton@ttu.edu.
University Student Housing
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Address
Wiggins Complex, 3211 18th St., Box 41141, Lubbock, TX 79409 -
Phone
(806) 742-2661 | Fax: (806) 742-2696 -
Email
housing@ttu.edu