Dear Members of the Campus Community,

I am delighted to let you know that Tuesday, May 1, we are holding a charrette to offer our campus and community the opportunity to provide feedback on the findings from our Conversation on Native Imagery. If you aren’t familiar with charrettes, they are meetings in which all stakeholders in a project attempt to resolve conflicts and map solutions.

The Critical Conversation on Native Imagery Charrette will be from 3-6pm in the South Lounge of the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, and is designed to generate insights, concerns and ideas for moving forward. No formal program will be presented and participants can spend as little or as much time as they want to review the ideas that were generated in the Conversation and offer input, comments and questions as we chart a path forward.

The Charrette is open to the public, and light refreshments will be served. A video of the speakers from the April 10th Critical Conversation will be shown at 3pm, 4pm, and 5pm.

The Chancellor’s Critical Conversations series is designed to explore difficult issues and answer challenging questions together, as a university community. The goal of each event is to challenge beliefs, opinions and viewpoints through careful listening and the thoughtful expression of different voices, perspectives and ideas.

I hope you can join us.

Best regards,

Robert J. Jones
Chancellor