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March 2019 © The University of the West Indies OUR MISSION An excellent global university rooted in the Caribbean VISION To advance learning, create knowledge and foster innovation for the positive transformation of the Caribbean and the wider world OUR CORE VALUES Integrity Excellence Gender Justice Diversity Student Centredness ANNUAL REPORT 2017/2018 01 The University of the Indies, West The University of the West Indies CAVE HILL CAMPUS Cave Hill Campus Hill Cave Contents Chairman’s Statement .....................................02 Principal’s Report ...............................................05 Internal Operating Processes ......................34 Teaching, Learning and Student Development ....................................47 Celebrating Student Achievements .........62 70 For Our 70th ................................................70 Research and Publications ............................72 Administrators of the Campus 2017/2018..........................................84 Membership of the Campus Council 2017/2018 .....................85 Financial Summary ............................................86 Campus Events ...................................................89 Saluting Achievement ......................................96 Statistics and Charts ......................................108 Campus Staff .....................................................116 Benefactors ........................................................119 02 ANNUAL REPORT CHAIRMAN’S Cave Hill Campus Hill Cave STATEMENT t gives me great pleasure to present The IUniversity of the West Indies (The UWI) Cave Hill Campus’ Annual Report to Council for the Academic Year 2017/2018. The University of the Indies, West Sir Paul Altman, The Report documents the range of activities held Chairman, The UWI Cave Hill Campus Council. in celebration of The UWI’s 70th Anniversary. These activities showcased both the institution’s scholarship and its contributions to the communities Office 365 which modernises the business in which it is located. The Campus may be justifiably environment of the Campus; the installation of proud of the series of lectures which featured smart projectors in classrooms and teaching presents by several eminent persons, including The spaces across the Campus which have transformed UWI’s former Chancellor Sir George Alleyne on course delivery for lecturers and students. The the Perception and Place of Health in the Caribbean; Report highlights the establishment of the Student and the timely community presentations on matters Enrolment and Retention Unit (SERU) at the of both local and national importance. These beginning of the Academic Year 2017/2018, for the included disaster management, health, the inclusion management and coordination of strategies for the of fisheries and other coastal activities into the recruitment of new students and the retention of Blue Economy and traditional versus natural students through to graduation. It notes the range medicine. The Report notes that these discussions of activities which the SERU has already undertaken were not restricted to the Campus but were in the areas of local, regional and international extended to the parishes of St Andrew, St George, recruitment. St James, St Joseph, St Philip, St Lucy, Christ The Report details the contribution of the Centre Church and Bridgetown. The Report records the for Food Security and Entrepreneurship (CFSE) Campus’ gratitude to Dr Henderson Carter and not only to Barbados but to several countries of the 70th Anniversary Committee which planned the Eastern Caribbean. The Report takes special and implemented the activities during the year. note of CFSE’s initiatives which support the The Report also documents the many achievements region’s economic development. These include made in the first year under the Campus’ Strategic the rehabilitation of the arrowroot industry in St Plan Initiatives. These include: introduction of a Vincent and the Grenadines, the development of Cave Hill app that provides students with a wide the sea island cotton industry; and the conversion of range of important information in a timely manner, leather from the Blackbelly sheep into a range of high and facilitates two-way communication between value products. The Report records the leadership students and staff; the deployment of Microsoft role the CFSE is taking in the development of a new ANNUAL REPORT 2017/2018 03 The University of the Indies, West economic sector based on marine bio-prospecting which is important to the economies of many islands in the Caribbean. The Report makes reference to the significant work of the Impact Justice Project which is now in its fourth year. It noted the training in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and Restorative Practices which continued during the year. This included Campus Hill Cave the training of twenty-five (25) court-connected mediators, and eleven (11) persons in Restorative Practices. In addition, the project had held Train the The Report for the Academic Year 2017/2018, Trainer sessions in Belize, Barbados, and Antigua draws attention to the research and publication and Barbuda and two (2) Community Based Peace of several members of its academic staff. In this Building (CBPB) courses, including a session for regard, the staff of the Institute of Gender and Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Caribbean. Development: Nita Barrow Unit (IGDS: NBU) must An important aspect of this work has been the be congratulated for the Livity Project which was Triple H (Hope, Help, Heal) programme aimed at awarded €400,000 by the European Union. The students’ holistic development, especially in the project addresses marginalisation, discrimination areas of anger management, conflict resolution and and exclusion of persons with disabilities, LGBTI teamwork through sport. Caribbean citizens, women, girls, youth and the elderly in national and regional decision-making The Report recognises the Faculties and processes, through enhancing the capacity and Departments for their concerted efforts to support participation of Civil Society Organisations (CSO). students’ academic achievements, and especially The Campus also congratulates Dr Philmore those initiatives geared to ensure that the new Alleyne, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, who courses and revision of programmes are responsive received the Emerald Literati Award for his article to the needs and aspirations of current and potential Antecedents of Taxpayers’ Intention to Engage in Tax students. The Campus must be congratulated on Evasion: Evidence from Barbados published in the the development of the BSc Preclinical Science Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting. which articulates with the medical programme delivered at the University of Ghana. The strong The Campus expresses its sincere gratitude to the internationalisation programme of the Cave Hill Government of Barbados for the resumption of Campus may also be seen in the contributions the payment of tuition fees for Barbadian nationals of the Confucius Institute to the development of registered at The University of the West Indies. the Minor in Chinese Studies, in the teaching of Current data has indicated that this has already Mandarin in several primary and secondary schools, resulted in a significant increase in the number of and its work with CXC on the planned introduction students enrolled at The UWI Cave Hill Campus. of Mandarin at various levels of the school system The Campus is cognizant that the continued support in the Caribbean. The conversion of the English of students and staff throughout the academic year as a Second Language (ESL) programme into the has contributed to the achievements recorded Centre for English Language (CEL) and its training in this Report. It also extends appreciation to its of tourism personnel from Columbia during the international, corporate and individual donors who academic year, is another indication of the Campus’ have been of critical importance to the sustainability focus on attracting international students. of the Cave Hill Campus. PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2017/2018 05 The University of the Indies, West PRINCIPAL’S REPORT he University of the West Indies Cave Hill Cave Hill Campus Hill Cave T Campus is pleased to present the Report to Council for the Academic Year 2017/2018. It documents both the achievements and the challenges of the period, as well as the support which the Campus has received from students and staff, the Government of Barbados and its international, corporate and individual sponsors and donors. Professor V. Eudine Barriteau, PhD, GCM Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal. During the year under review, the Cave Hill Campus fisheries and the other coastal activities into the joined with its sister campuses in celebrating the Blue Economy, traditional versus natural medicine. 70th Anniversary of The University of the West These discussions were held in the parishes of Indies. The Campus’ year-long celebration began on St Andrew, St George, St James, St Joseph, St Philip, January 28, 2018, with an Inter-faith service at the St Lucy and Christ Church. On March 17, 2018, the St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Jemmott’s Faculty of Medical Sciences held a symposium on Lane, St. Michael. This was followed by a media Nutrition in the auditorium of the well-known Steel launch on February 5, 2018, during which The UWI Shed in Queen’s Park in Bridgetown. Members of was endorsed by several well-known alumni. The the public participated in two 70th Anniversary year concluded
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