SLU Graduation Weekend

We have a new graduate in our family. Julia graduated on Sunday. BS in Psychology (Honors). I'll have much more about graduation weekend but first I have to say that I'm very pleased that President Dan Sullivan's remarks to the Seniors were picked up by AP. President Sullivan made scathing remarks about the findings of the so-called "Spellings Commission".

"Almost every day we read in the newspaper of efforts by Spellings to dumb down the education for life we seek to provide at St. Lawrence and substitute something that is woefully inferior," Sullivan stated.

He added that the report of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education (the "Spellings Commission") was "meant to be a bold outline for how higher education in America should be reformed to meet the needs of students and the nation in the 21st century. Instead, it is in its major thrusts, in my view, a national embarrassment."

The text of the entire speech can be found here.