We know SUS never has anything much worth listening to when they talk about students, which is supposedly the area they should be experts in, so why would anyone take them seriously when they parrot the words of UFV admin scrambling to justify an HR-disaster-level non-communication?

Perhaps, in order to facilitate discussion of the art of rhetoric, this blog post (and its associated messages blasted across our myUFV accounts and emails) could be used in classrooms as an example of a pseudo-exhaustive piece of writing that, in the end, portrays the university as one that appeals to institutions outside itself to justify decisions, rather than having any academic leadership of its own. Lots to work through here!

My #hottake: UFV's admin leadership is not in the game of individual style, it has no flair for the personal, it is trending toward cowardice, matched by a sense of desperation and disorganization. It is shoring up its brand with one tab open each to the Kwantlen, SFU, and UBC front pages, and fending away searching eyes with a not-negligible amount of the rest of its energy. Good luck, all.