James Monroe goes multicultural

Some time ago, purportedly Liberian Saint Regis suddenly adjusted its faculty roster to include African individuals. Previously, only South African Leonard van der Walt represented all of Africa. If you recall, the sudden inclusion of many new faces was done with the help of an image editing program, used to install the heads of new faculty on a couple of old faculty bodies, in particular that of SRU founder Richard J. Hoyer and musician Dennis Chandler.

It appears that Saint Regis has been renamed "James Monroe," perhaps in response to the pressures of the (accredited) Regis University's law suit. What about SRU will change during the course of this transformation? Well here's something encouraging: the SRU/JMU home page clipart had shown fair-skinned people in a head shot of a woman in a mortarboard, a group shot of seven people, and an image of a hand reaching for a book on a shelf. Now there's an increased sensitivity to diversity: the home page features no caucasians this time, but rather a pair of photos of attractive individuals with darker skin tones. Are they Liberians? I haven't a clue. Does this herald an increased awareness of matters African? I haven't a clue.

Did the http://AdvancedU.org/forum discussion forum disappear because dozens of posts by the Chief Provost and Dean of Behavioral Sciences of the Saint Regis (whoops, I mean James Monroe) University School of Behavioral Sciences concerning pedophilia, imprisoned faculty, and the regionally accredited university that is suing SRU were too harmful to the prospects of the defendant in the law suit? I haven't a clue.

Will the "more than 150,000 applications a year" supposedly processed by SRU now flow to JMU? I haven't a clue.

Will the recent chatter about SRU's (err... JMU's) impending reaccreditation start afresh, or just fall into the river? I haven't a clue.

I do notice that SRU (dang, I keep making the same mistake!) no longer offers the correct Liberian Embassy phone number and not-the-embassy web site on its accreditation page. Also, whatever happened to that pretty certificate certifying that NBOE operates SRU? I haven't a clue.