CARW has established the following goals and means to attaining these goals as a focus for our existence.

Goals: -To aid white people in exploring their own racial identity. -To help white individuals to feel more comfortable speaking in a group about race, racism and privilege. -To learn about the historical construction of race, and to explore and challenge these dominant systems of understanding and categorizing difference. -To facilitate the continual and infinite process of white people identifying, challenging, confronting, and taking responsibility for their own racism and privilege. -To become stronger as individuals, and as a group, in confronting racism in interpersonal situations as well as in institutions. -To facilitate an open and productive dialogue about race, racism, and privilege in Grinnell, Iowa, and beyond. -To build a coalition with multi-cultural groups to combat racism and privilege and to raise consciousness on campus.

Means: -CARW will meet on a bi-weekly basis in a safe but challenging space to focus both on individual issues and campus-wide issues pertaining to racism and privilege. -CARW will plan campus events including films, speakers, panels, open forums, which focus on the goals of educating, raising awareness, and creating meaningful dialogue about race, racism, and privilege. -CARW members will work to educate themselves and those around them about racism and privilege that is often hidden to white people. -CARW hopes to co-sponsor events and actions with other groups, departments or individuals with similar or related goals.