Normally we would kick off the month of April with some serious humor.
We would take the occasion to push the envelope of current trends and lay out an all too plausible near future scenario.
Ideally, it might serve to trigger a classic satisfying April Fools double take while surfacing the logical consequences of some of our most cherished unquestioned assumptions.
Sadly, this is not the year to make use of this rhetorical devise, lest it add to the pain we are all experiencing.
Watch this space in the days ahead for some more somber reflections on the impact of the pandemic on University Futures.