Pravda on the North Saskatchewan

Colloquy continues its tradition of publishing happy talk and avoiding any sort of substantive coverage of the many challenges faced by this institution with an end of the year post by President Samarasekera.  In it, she talks up the Rhodes Scholarship won by Megan Engel (a nice accomplishment for Megan, but not really something for which the University can or should claim credit); the dodgeball record (no comment; I've addressed this previously); and the establishment of the India-Canada centre of excellence (a reasonable thing to tout, though symptomatic of the reflexive drive towards internationalization of the University while neglecting our basic missions of providing quality education to Alberta residents and maintaining our status as a preeminent research institution).  It's hard to imagine that anyone involved in Colloquy ever really believed the hype about serving as a forum for discussion and debate of important issues.