This is quite an interesting interview with Phillip Steenkamp, who has been President of Royal Roads University since 2018, on the current state of the small west coast institution here in Canada. Royal Roads was established to do what so many are recommending: there's no Senate, no tenure, and "a very focused mandate to serve the needs of the labour market and only offer applied and professional programs." So how has it fared? "We have to be very adaptive, very responsive, very nimble." I think the article tries to put the best light on it, but the university has remained small and is struggling. It has retrenched with voluntary retirements and a 10 percent workforce cut. "We've moved from seven schools to three. We've merged the two professional program faculties into a single Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies." They're making more money from research, and they are launching satellite campuses in places like the Emirates. "We've had a Netflix series filmed here. We do about 60 weddings a year."
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