Join us for this exhibition at the Student Art Gallery located in the lobby of Central Illinois Regional Airport (CIRA).Free and open to the public during gallery hours. Gallery information and hours are available online: https://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/events-activities/airport-gallery/.For questions or accommodations, please contact the Wonsook Kim School of Art office.*Exhibition Reception: Wednesday, October 22, 2025, from 5-6 p.m. at the gallery.*Reception date/time may be subject to change without notice.

September 29, October 1, 6, 8 (Mondays and Wednesdays) 1:30-3:30 pmAttend in person at ISU’s Alumni Center, 1101 N. Main St., Normal            ORWatch Online via ZoomFEES:$35 for Senior Professional members (includes all four sessions)$45 for non-members (includes all four sessions)For in-person participation, pricing is per person.For Zoom participation, pricing is one registration per household.Price includes:Four 2-hour sessions (one Academy of Seniors class).$15 single-session option available for in-person attendance (pay at door).Register online at seniorprofessionals.illinoisstate.edu or call (309) 438-2160.Zoom participants will receive a Zoom link a week prior to the start of the class(es) and again on the day of each session.Learn the dynamics of persuasion, including important source, receiver and message components while also exploring the effects of persuasive communication on receivers’ attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviors.Based on Dr. Hunts’s new book, co- authored with colleague Keven R. Meyer, Hunt will address new media, engaged citizenship and deconstructing messages in a post-truth world to deepen attendees’ understanding of persuasion.Themes will include the application of contemporary persuasion theory and research to the post-truth era, the influence of new media on persuasive communication and how to use persuasion to become civically engaged and advance the common good.Stephen Hunt, Professor, School of Communication, ISU

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will present to a master class from 2-3 p.m. in the Circus Room of the Bone Student Center on Monday, October 6. This event is open to all students.Later the same day at 7 p.m., Goodwin will speak at Illinois Wesleyan University’s Shirk Center Basketball Arena as part of the Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series, with a presentation titled, “Leadership in Turbulent Times; Advice for Today from Our Best Presidents.” The moderated program, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by audience Q&A. Registration is appreciated for planning purposes, but not required (Registration Link).Goodwin’s career as a historian launched when she was selected as a White House Fellow at age 24, an opportunity that led her to work personally with President Lyndon Johnson both in the White House and later on his memoirs. Her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, became a national bestseller and achieved critical acclaim.Since then, Goodwin has authored numerous critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling books, including the Carnegie Medal winner The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism; and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, in part the basis for Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-winning film Lincoln. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II earned her the Pulitzer Prize, and one of her most recent works, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, became an instant bestseller and is being developed as a feature film.The Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series is named after Bloomington native Adlai E. Stevenson II, former Illinois governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. This event brings innovative and enlightening speakers to Bloomington-Normal campuses to foster community and conversation around the appreciation of learning. The lecture series is co-hosted by Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University.