Perhaps the best part of being Dean is standing on the stage to congratulate our graduates as they wrap up their most recent educational journey. Someone who doesn’t understand the meaning of these events might imagine that shaking two thousand hands in eight different congregations (what some schools call “commencements”, “convocations” or simply “graduations”) might […]

Today, we got to celebrate the arrival of our newly designed Buchanan Courtyards, which will have a transformative effect on our use of the complex that’s at the centre of the Faculty of Arts. Below is a loose version of my speaking points on this occasion. It was great to see students, faculty, emeriti faculty, […]