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Media advisory: Advisory group releases Native imagery report

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — An advisory committee that facilitated communitywide discussions of the use of Native imagery on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus is sharing its findings with the public. The report from the Critical Conversations on Native Imagery Advisory Committee relates the initial findings, ideas and concepts from participants during a series of campus events.

Created by Chancellor Robert J. Jones, the Chancellor’s Critical Conversation series discussed perspectives on Native imagery in three facilitated conversations in April and May and in a public meeting in May.

The document is available online at go.illinois.edu/nativeimageryreport2018.

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