University of the West Indies
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| University of the West Indies | |
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| Motto | Oriens Ex Occidente Lux (Latin) |
| Motto in English | A Light Rising From The West |
| Established | 1948 |
| Type | Public |
| Chancellor | Sir George Alleyne |
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof. E. Nigel Harris |
| Academic staff | 1,000+ |
| Students | 36,000+ (across 3 campuses) |
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| Mascot | The Pelican |
| Affiliations | Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) |
| Website | www.uwi.edu |
The University of the West Indies is a public university system serving 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos. Each of these countries is either a member of the Commonwealth of Nations or a British Overseas Territory. The aim of the university is to help "unlock the potential for economic and cultural growth" in the West Indies, thus allowing for improved regional autonomy. The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London.
Since the University's inception, students and faculty have been recognized in fields ranging from the arts and sciences, to business, politics, and sports. Notable alumni and faculty include two Nobel Laureates, sixty-one Rhodes Scholars, 18 current or former Caribbean Heads of Government, and an Olympic medalist. The university's cricket team previously participated in West Indian domestic cricket, but now participates as part of a Combined Campuses and Colleges team.
The university consists of three physical campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados and the Open Campus. There are satellite campuses in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago and Montego Bay, Jamaica, and a Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management in Nassau, Bahamas. The other contributing countries are served by the Open Campus which has a physical presence and Heads of Sites in each of the 18 countries.
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History [edit]
The university was founded in 1948, on the recommendations of the Asquith Commission, and in a special relationship with the University of London, as the University College of the West Indies (UCWI), and seated at Mona, about five miles from Kingston, Jamaica. The university was based at a camp used by evacuated Gibraltarians during the war.[1] The Asquith Commission had been established in 1943 to review the provision of higher education in the British colonies.
The University College achieved independent university status in 1962. The St Augustine Campus in Trinidad, formerly the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA), was established in 1960, followed by the Cave Hill Campus in Barbados in 1963. Before the establishment of the Open Campus, University Centres, headed by a Resident Tutor, were established in each of the other thirteen contributing territories.
Each of the physical campuses has faculties common to all of the campuses, such as Humanities & Education and Social Sciences. Cave Hill and Mona have the Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences while St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, houses the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Agriculture under the Faculty of Agriculture and Sciences. Cave Hill, Barbados, has a full Faculty of Law, so that undergraduates in Mona and St. Augustine who complete first year on their respective campuses must go on to Cave Hill. Both Mona, Jamaica, and St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, have the Faculty of Medicine. In 2008 Cave Hill accepted the first students at their Faculty of Medicine. Previously, they only accommodated students in the final two years in the medical program at their School of Medicine which was located at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. St. Augustine also has the Faculty of Engineering.
In 1950, HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the last surviving granddaughter of Queen Victoria, became the first Chancellor of the University College of the West Indies.
Sir William Arthur Lewis was the first Vice-Chancellor under the UWI’s independent Charter. A native of St Lucia, he served as the first West Indian Principal of the UCWI from 1958 to 1960 and as Vice-Chancellor from 1960 to 1963. He was succeeded by Sir Philip Sherlock (a Jamaican and one of the UWI’s founding fathers) who served as Vice-Chancellor from 1963 to 1969. Sir Roy Marshall, a Barbadian, was the next Vice-Chancellor, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was succeeded by Dr Aston Zachariah Preston, a Jamaican, who died in office on June 24, 1986 having served from 1974. The fifth Vice-Chancellor was Sir Alister McIntyre, who served from 1988 to 1998, followed by alumnus and Professor Emeritus Rex Nettleford who served from 1998 to 2004. The current Vice-Chancellor is Professor E. Nigel Harris.
Current enrolment across the four campuses is 56,000.
Professors Emeriti include Sir George Alleyne, Mervyn C. Alleyne, Sir Fitzroy Richard Augier, Compton D. Bourne, Wilfred R. Chan, Daphne R. Douglas, Sir John Simon Rawson Golding, Douglas Gordon Hawkins Hall, Keith Laurence, Woodville Marshall, Mervyn Morris, Sir Kenneth Stewart, and Dr Micheal Carter.
Notable faculty and administrators [edit]
Dr Albert Belville Lockhart: Consultant and Ophthalmologist, Recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit, co-inventor of Canasol[2]
Professor Manley Elisha West: Professor of Pharmacology, Recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit, co-inventor of Canasol[2]
Notable alumni [edit]
UWI Graduates who are, or have been, Heads of Government or in the Government:
The Most Hon. Percival J. Patterson: Former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
Dr. the Rt. Hon. Sir Kennedy A. Simmonds: Former Prime Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis
The Rt. Hon. Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford: Former Prime Minister of Barbados
The Hon. Dr. Orlando Smith: Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands
Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves: Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
The Hon. Patrick Manning: Former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
The Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur: Former Prime Minister of Barbados
Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell: Prime Minister of Grenada
Dr. the Hon. Kenny Anthony: Prime Minister of St. Lucia
The Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas: Prime Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis
The Hon. David Thompson: Former Prime Minister of Barbados
The Hon. Dean Barrow: Prime Minister of Belize
The Hon. Joseph Walcott Parry: Premier of Nevis
The Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar: Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
The Hon. Andrew Holness: Former Prime Minister of Jamaica
The Hon. Minister of Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, Herbert Volney
The Hon. Minister of National Security/ Football executive, Jack Warner
UWI Graduates in other fields:
- Fae A. Ellington, Jamaican media personality and lecturer
- Shafimana Ueitele, Namibian lawyer
- Kris Rampersad, Journalist, Author, Cultural Advocate.
- David Barry Gaspar, Professor of History at Duke University
- Edward L. Cox, Associate Professor of History at Rice University
- Judge L. Dolliver M. Nelson, Member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- The Hon. Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize for Literature.
- J. Michael Dash, Professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
- Christine Emmons, PhD., Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center
Appointments 6 March 2012 – : H.R.H. Prince Harry of Wales- Honorary Fellow of the University of the West Indies
See also [edit]
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Kris Rampersad - Author, Through the Political Glass Ceiling, Finding A Place.
References [edit]
- ^ Brown, |Suzanne Francis (2006). Mona Past and Present: The History and Heritage of the Mona Campus, University of the West Indies p.10-11. University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 9789766401597.
- ^ a b M E West and J Homi. "Cannabis as a medicine." Br. J. Anaesth. (1996) 76(1): 167 doi:10.1093/bja/76.1.167-a
External links [edit]
- University of the West Indies Official Web Site
Campus websites [edit]
- Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
- Cave Hill School of Business
- Mona Campus, Jamaica
- St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
- Western Jamaica Campus
- Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago
- Open Campus
Other links [edit]
- Aerial view of Mona Campus
- List of Programmes offered through UWI
- The Cavite Chorale, One of the singing groups of the University of the West Indies
- UWI Student Mailing list
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