Coda: Perpetuum Mobile

‘The university becoming’ – what a perplexing idea; and yet what a brave idea, especially at this time. After all, becoming is both real and imaginative; both fact and value; both a description and a hope. Becoming suggests a journey on the way to realizing an entity’s true being, becoming itself fully, realising its full potential. There is the university, changing before our eyes, and despite the travails that it has been encountering, somehow it is finding the resources, the will, and the space in the world to become itself; to achieve what always lay within itself. There are the facts of the matter and there is value, much value, that we impute to the university now becoming itself.