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Letter of Remembrance for Linda Chisholm from The Rt Revd Andrew Dietsche

There are sixty Anglican colleges and universities in India where the rights of “religious and linguistic minorities to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice” has been protected by the constitution since Independence. Post the 2014 general elections, however, these minority colleges have come increasingly under assault. The Revd Dr Valson Thampu, former president of the pre-eminent Saint Stephen’s College in Delhi, which Mahatma Gandhi made home when he visited Delhi in the early years of India’s struggle for freedom, has been an outspoken advocate for the independence of minority colleges. CUAC's General Secretary Canon Callaway noted, "Valson was chaplain, besides being Vice Principal and Head, Dept. of English, at Saint Stephen’s College in 1997 at CUAC’s first Triennial, which he organized, attended and chaired. Despite daily pillorying in the press, I find him a powerfully focused leader of calm conviction. Now retired to his native Kerala, his prophetic voice remains clarion."

When a premier college is filling a major vacancy, they always say they will have a far-reaching search.

On February 16 & 17 2018 at Bishop Heber College, in the state of Tiruchirappalli, India, Dr. D. Paul Dhayabaran, Principal, Bishop Heber College welcomed member participants and invited guests to the India Chapter meeting of Colleges and Universities of Anglican Communion (CUAC).

At the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes in San Antonio, Texas the organization’s Board of Directors announced it has called Joseph R. Swimmer as the Consortium’s new Executive Director.