<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">
Please share as you see fit. Thanks, Linda</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div id="x_appendonsend"></div>
<hr tabindex="-1" style="display:inline-block; width:98%">
<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> Yun, Nina Nan <nina.yun@ku.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 1, 2023 10:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> English Department <english@ku.edu>; Center for Undergraduate Research <cur@ku.edu>; Sociology Department <socdept@ku.edu>; KU Pols <kupols@ku.edu>; Geology <geology@ku.edu>; KU Geography Department <kugeog@ku.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Registration now open for the Alternative Futures for Kansas Workshop: A Civic Imagination</font>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div lang="EN-US" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="x_x_WordSection1">
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
The Center for Public Partnerships and Research is excited to share this opportunity for the Alternative Futures for Kansas Workshop with all students and staff in your department. The workshop is free, but registration is required. Please see more event information
in the attached or below press release. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact!</p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
</p>
<div>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Nina Yun (she/her)</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Communications Coordinator</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="color: black;">Center for Public Partnerships and Research | The University of Kansas</span><span style=""></span></p>
</div>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style=""><a href="https://cppr.ku.edu/" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA4293e26f-33fc-321e-abb2-1c231776e9bf" class="OWAAutoLink"><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">cppr.ku.edu</span></a></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
</p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="624" height="125" id="x_x_Picture_x0020_1" style="width:6.5in; height:1.302in" data-outlook-trace="F:2|T:2" src="cid:image001.png@01DA0CAE.B46176A0"></span></b><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></b></span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Registration now open for CPPR’s Alternative Futures for Kansas: A Civic Imagination Workshop</span></b></span><span class="x_x_eop"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></b></span><span class="x_x_eop"></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
</p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
What if we hit peak water on a global scale? What would happen if tuition and fees at public colleges were eliminated? How would an additional increase in mortgage rates affect prospective and current homeowners?</p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Center for Public Partnerships and Research (CPPR) is hosting the
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://cppr.ku.edu/alternative-futures-kansas" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA0d22fc34-c414-0205-e7ff-d9d835b79667" class="OWAAutoLink"><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Alternative
Futures for Kansas: A Civic Imagination Workshop</span></span></a></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> on Nov. 15. to engage in questions like these with one of the leading practitioners and
teachers of futures thinking, Jake Dunagan, Governance Lab director at the </span>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iftf.org%2Fabout-iftf%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cpols-l%40lists.ku.edu%7C4ec9adfbe5504138209d08dbdb174eec%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638344665397744337%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=of8q%2Bq2sJh%2Fe5heiWCqOHZL4Mn79Q6tLd06ntmhqrEQ%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.iftf.org/about-iftf/" shash="MkmOs8MZydk+/EfRj4xfC+OtZYUmKlWkg4VRuhhM1fc0e/0AguGJpiHJBaojHux30tyT+1M/Yiro0/lbQHUSh+q9t2gUPDcDaP2NPHRW1PBKw1PmV6MZEdEuurkdxguenSsgf8x8KzKkIuEXq3RcMcr6j0z2SEnGe2RtBNGCr6Q=" data-auth="Verified" originalsrc="https://www.iftf.org/about-iftf/" shash="yAHCsZj/MMVmY8y3W6vpRZE6OvoGt34cT9SAHJOYmQOWGN9quCNQRJtwsMWSdQ3Bc0zkAnyWu5LKxJbIRGvxalM/arxNPJH8cHgAzz8QWUZgm0uctYW1xZPAqj4ylC3QLE5hlK5ruIHpzyEamWkCwArP1UGWbq8FwviwGk2ye1g=" id="OWA462bd93e-6659-8cc7-b2e7-5a33b4811627" class="OWAAutoLink"><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Institute
for the Future</span></span></a></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.</span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
Futures Thinking turns “what if” questions into a creative and proactive discipline that can help us identify opportunities and engage in the possibilities of events that can completely reshape our lives. The Alternative Futures Workshop participants will learn
how to investigate the future by developing strategic foresight skills and how to share critical feedback.
<span class="x_x_normaltextrun">Dunagan will guide participants in futures thinking by exploring multidisciplinary tools and strategies. And
</span><a href="https://lifespan.ku.edu/people/john-sebelius" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWAf105f01f-6572-2800-b7c4-a793220b7cc3" class="OWAAutoLink"><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">KU Life Span
Artist-in-Residence John Sebelius</span></span></a><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"> will help participants in creating future artifacts to support each scenario session with tangible elements that can ground and inspire an expansive exchange of ideas.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_eop"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“Kansas has big questions to tackle, and no one sector or person has all the answers. The Civic Imagination Workshop provides a space for us to come together and
think through alternative scenarios and see where we can take action today,” said Jackie Counts, executive director of CPPR. “We believe in the wisdom of the collective—in the students and community members of Lawrence— and their impact on future generations.”</span></span><span class="x_x_eop"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_eop"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Alternative Futures for Kansas: A Civic Imagination Workshop is co-sponsored by the University of Kansas: Achievement & Assessment Institute, Common Book, Hall
Center for the Humanities, J. Wayne & Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction, and the Lawrence Arts Center.</span></span><span class="x_x_eop"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_eop"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The in-person workshop
</span></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 15 from 9AM to NOON at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. The event is open to the public, but registration
will be limited to 100 people. For more details and registration information, visit
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://cppr.ku.edu/alternative-futures-kansas" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA9f5dd0fa-0f71-f9b3-343c-8afac10aebbd" class="OWAAutoLink"><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">cppr.ku.edu/alternative-futures</span></span></a></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"> </span></span><span class="x_x_eop"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"> </span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="x_x_paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;margin:0in; vertical-align:baseline">
<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For previous coverage of CPPR’s approach to foresight, visit
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://aai.ku.edu/how-aais-center-public-partnerships-research-draws-futures-thinking-their-work" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA7223e858-cf40-684f-5ed0-6b0f923bb4c1" class="OWAAutoLink"><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">aai.ku.edu/how-cppr-futures-thinking.</span></span></a><span class="x_x_eop"> </span></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>