ISSUE 7 : OCT ‘07/MAR ‘08 Contents A PUBLICATION OF THE INFORMATION DISCOURSE STUDENT CENTERED AND MARKETING OFFICE, 2 Efficiency and Self Reliance 24 Kalinago Students THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, CAVE HILL CAMPUS. 2 Beckles Knighted 24 Sanella Sandiford NEWS 25 Improved Student Performance We welcome your comments and 3 Year of Lamming feedback which can be directed 3 New School of Thought AWARDS to [email protected] or Chill c/o Marketing Office, 4 BIM is Back 27 Nobel & National UWI, Cave Hill Campus, 5 Funding for Quality Ed Recognition Bridgetown BB11000 27 Donor Accolades Barbados 6 Scholars Query Freedom 28 Teaching Excellence Tel: (246) 417-4057 7 Women Trail Economically 29 Principal’s Awardees 8 Research on Higher Ed CO-EDITORS: ARTS Chelston Lovell PARTNERSHIP Janet Caroo 10 MOU on Culture 30 ‘SOBIE’ Review CONSULTANT EDITOR: 32 Caribbean Cyberculture Korah Belgrave 10 CHSB & GEL 32 Revolution in the Caribbean CONTRIBUTORS PEOPLE Professor Sir Hilary Beckles 33 New Directions in Higher Gayle Alleyne 12 Prof. Ralph Carnegie Education Dale Austin 13 Prof. Eudine Barriteau Gale Hall RESEARCH 14 Rommel Currency Carmel Haynes 34 CERMES Sonia Johnson 15 Omar Phillips Steven R. Leslie 35 Demand for Banking Andrea Lewis MEDICAL RESEARCH Research Katheryn Stewart Sasha Sutherland 16 CSMR 40th Anniversary 35 Youth in ‘Follow Pattern’ Travis Weekes 17 Skin Cancer Mode Aundrea Wharton 17 Researchers Awarded PHOTOGRAPHY: SPORTS Cover Image – David Marshall 18 Cancer Research 36 Sporting Centre of Event 10 Communications Nation Newspaper Library 18 Ectopic Pregnancies Excellence Vice Chancellor’s Office 19 Health and Social change 37 Checkmate Emmerson Haynes Warren Linton (PHOTACC) 19 Chronic Disease Registry 37 Hockey Maxi Baldeo 38 Top Coaches CAMPUS FOCUS DESIGN & LAYOUT: 39 UWI Seize Sagicor Cup Leaf Design Inc. 20 Celebrating Sixty PRINTED BY: 40 New Football Field COT Caribbean Graphics COVER STORY 40 CARICOM Football 22 Twin Focus Tournament CHILL NEWS | 1 CHILL Discourse Growth through Principal Efficiency and Beckles Knighted Self-Reliance he design of a framework to teaching and learning take place. In this develop our institution for our regard we have established a Classroom Tcurrent Strategic Plan 2007-12 Management Committee to ensure that has been underpinned by our need for classrooms adequately meet the needs efficiency and greater self-reliance, even of faculty and students and support the as we sought to transform the Cave Campus’ vision of high quality teaching and Hill Campus into a research oriented learning. The Committee will also develop university. policies on classroom development and use Based on an examination of national and and will draw on international best practice regional strategic plans, we developed and to develop a manual for classroom design presented proposals to Government that are and maintenance. geared to our making significant strides in We completed the construction and the area of sponsored research. We proposed equipping of three new facilities: an funding for sixteen areas and have received E-Commerce Graduate laboratory, the Cable positive initial consideration. and Wireless students’ walk-in Internet Café Under the Professional Masters Degree and a three-story undergraduate teaching Initiative we have rolled out an additional block which provides accommodation for eleven new programmes in tourism and approximately 1,000 students. We have also hospitality management, banking and completed the first phase of the expansion Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University finance, counselling psychology, applied of our bookshop, which allows for increased of the West Indies and Principal of psychology, e-governance for developing storage and reorganisation, and a media Cave Hill Campus, Professor Sir Hilary states, labour studies, cricket studies, centre which is an essential complement to Beckles, received his highest accolade Caribbean integration studies, social work, the 3Ws Oval. last November as he was awarded electronic commerce and public law. In We continued work towards the completion Barbados’ top honour – the Knight of addition, the Cave Hill School of Business of two critically needed facilities: a three- St Andrew. launched a Master’s in International Event story block in the CARICOM Park, intended Sir Hilary, who shared the premier position Management: Sports, and a Doctorate in to house a number of units engaged in on the 2007 Independence Honours List Business regional research, and a graduate studies with business mogul, Sir Kyffin Simpson, We have engaged in intensive planning to teaching block, the latter as part of the was knighted by acting Governor upgrade the School of Clinical Medicine development of the 32 acres of land at Black General, Sir Fred Gollop, during a three- and Research (SCMR) to Faculty status on its Rock. We also began the construction of a hour ceremony at Government House on 40th anniversary and to meet its admission new Administration building that will bring Independence Day. target of fifty MB BS students in September under one roof all major administrative units 2008. We have developed our curriculum in at the Campus including senior management The lavish proceedings, telecast live, consultation with the Faculties of Medicine offices. were witnessed by parliamentarians, at Mona and St. Augustine, negotiating The Campus owes an immense debt of members of the diplomatic corps and the with the Government of Barbados for a site gratitude to all our partners whose business community and other specially in close proximity to the Queen Elizabeth extraordinary generosity, unwavering invited guests. Hospital to house the clinical laboratories commitment and prudent guidance have and library, designed the civil works at the enabled us to embark on a path of growth, Sir Hilary was honoured “in recognition Cave Hill site, along with the identification transformation and increased self-reliance. of his distinguished service in the field of and recruiting of teaching and administrative Without this support the Campus would education, in particular at university level, staff. not have been able to achieve its significant and his dedication to the furtherance of Our focus on efficiency involved assessing goals nor contemplate the plans for its the arts and sports, in particular cricket”. and addressing the environment in which future development. 2 | CHILL NEWS CHILL News Year of Lamming Students at the University of the West creative writing. These will run until June EBCCI director, Professor Gladstone Yearwood, Indies (UWI) are grabbing the priceless and be repeated between January and June, says Lamming’s presence will serve as “an opportunity to have their writing skills 2009. inspiration” to students enrolled in the centre’s honed by one of the Caribbean’s finest He will also be available, by appointment, to Bachelor’s in Fine Arts programme as they literary luminaries. staff and students for consultation two to embark on their careers in the arts. Iconic personality and internationally- three times a week. “The Errol Barrow Centre for Creative acclaimed Barbadian, George Lamming, took UWI has saluted Lamming with the designation Imagination is honoured to have the celebrated up the position of writer-in-residence at the of 2008 as the ‘Year of George Lamming’ at writer George Lamming in residence. His Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination the Cave Hill Campus as well as the renaming presence is important for the centre because (EBCCI) at Cave Hill Campus in February. of the pedagogical centre at the Errol Barrow he brings tremendous intellect, great creative The celebrated writer re-enters the world of Centre as The George Lamming Pedagogical achievement and personal knowledge of and academia to bring his wealth of experience as Centre. The Campus will further honour the involvement in Caribbean arts and aesthetics. a Caribbean intellectual, literary artist, teacher, celebrated writer when it hosts the UWI Lamming is a national treasure and his residence poet, novelist, broadcaster and critic to bear George Lamming International Symposium will help the Centre to strengthen its work in on a new generation of Caribbean talent later in the academic year. During his tenure, the arts and develop its programme in creative seeking to follow in his illustrious footsteps. As this brilliant scholar will also deliver three writing,” said Yearwood, adding that Barbados’ the Distinguished Honorary Fellow in Creative public lectures, and conduct relevant work as wider arts community would also benefit from Writing at the EBCCI, Lamming has been patron and consultant editor of BIM: Arts for Lamming’s visit through the Fiction Writing delivering weekly, three-hour seminars on the 21st Century. Master’s Class. George Lamming is one of the latest recipients of CARICOM’s most Lamming has received numerous accolades, fellowships and awards prestigious award – the Order to the Caribbean Community (OCC). including the ‘Somerset Maugham Award for literature’, a ‘Guggenheim Born in Alkins Road, Carrington Village, in June 1927, Lamming has led Fellowship’, the ‘Brachaman Award’ from Yale University, the ‘Martin Luther a distinguished career as a Caribbean intellectual, literary artist, teacher, King Award’, the ‘Casa de Las Americas Award’ and the ‘Henry Sylvester poet, novelist, broadcaster and critic. He published his first and most highly Williams Award, Trinidad’, for ‘Outstanding Achievement in the Pan African acclaimed novel, ‘In the Castle