ISSUE 5 : OCT 2006/MARCH 2007 Contents A PUBLICATION OF THE PUBLIC INFORMATION AND MARKETING DISCOURSE STUDENT CENTERED OFFICE, THE UNIVERSITY OF THE 4 Focus on postgrads 25 HIV/AIDS WEST INDIES, CAVE HILL CAMPUS. & research... 26 Counselling Cover Photo: Sir Everton 26 Security Weekes welcomes Cricket World NEWS 27 Journal Cup to the 3Ws Oval, named in 5 Scotia donation honour of the famous cricket 27 VINSA triumvirate Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Clyde 5 Regional Integration 28 Matriculation Walcott and Sir Everton (known as “Little 6 UWI/FCIB 29 Co-Curricular Credits Evee” in his playing days). The 3Ws began their Test career in 1948, the same year the 7 Chancellor’s Visit University of the West Indies started. 7 UWI STAT AWARDS 8 Deputy PM We welcome your comments and 30 3 Chemistry PhDs feedback which can be directed 9 Student Feedback 32 Principal’s Awardees to [email protected] 9 Debating Team 34 Dale Destin or Chill c/o Marketing Office, Cave Hill Campus, Bridgetown BB11000 10 Reviving Physics Barbados RESEARCH Tel: (246) 417-4057 CAMPUS FOCUS 36 Prof. Alvin Thompson CO-EDITORS: 12 Graduation 2006 37 Videogames Chelston Lovell 13 CHSB Janet Caroo 38 Dr. Victor Simpson 14 Sister Dinah 39 Beate Pelka CONSULTANT EDITOR: 16 New Arts Centre Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald 40 Medical Symposium CONTRIBUTORS: TRIBUTE Professor Hilary Beckles COMMUNITY OUTREACH Bernard Babb 18 Sir Clyde Walcott 42 Decent Work Steven R. Leslie Dale Austin 43 Colloquium on Negritude Travis Weekes COVER STORY Guild Council Gale Hall 20 World Cup Cricket SPORTS at 3Ws Oval 45 Cave Hill Triumphant PHOTOGRAPHY: Cover Image – David Marshall 46 World Cup Prediction Event 10 Communications PEOPLE Nation Newspaper Library 22 Prof. Educational Media Services Department Simmons-McDonald DESIGN & LAYOUT: 24 O’Neil Simpson Leaf Design Inc. PRINTED BY: COT Caribbean Graphics CHILL NEWS | 3 CHILL Discourse FOCUSING ON POSTGRADS AND RESEARCH s we embark on our Strategic In order to conduct this type of research, we Plan for 2007-2012, Graduate will have to be in a position to attract a A Studies and Research will form a sufficiently large pool of well-qualified central focus at the Cave Hill Campus. students who would be able to dedicate This strategic approach is critical if we, as a themselves to full-time research. To achieve University and the Campus, are to maintain this, the Campus will be seeking to adopt the our historic pre-eminence in tertiary education approach of other universities that provide since, internationally, universities are judged their graduate research students with financial by the quality of their research and the assistance in the form of scholarships and graduate programmes they provide. An even grants. To this end, we are engaging the more important factor driving this strategic government and the private sector in focus for the next five years is the vital discussion with respect to setting out a new importance of the role that the University’s strategy that will enhance the Faculties’ image research and graduate education must play in as centres of excellence for postgraduate assisting our region to achieve national and studies and research. This initiative will have regional development goals. implications for funding but is necessary to prepare the Campus for its 21st century role The Cave Hill Campus has always offered as a research enterprise. graduate degrees at the masters and doctoral levels but within the last year, in response to In the near future, all the current graduate the expressed needs of the private and public degrees will be encompassed under the sectors, we have increased our offerings umbrella Cave Hill Graduate School which will through the introduction of a number of deliver three different types of programmes. taught professional masters. These taught These are the professional taught degrees masters programmes in International Trade funded by students’ fees; taught Policy, Banking and Finance, Counselling programmes, such as the Masters in Project Psychology, E-Commerce, Social Work, Management and Evaluation or in Education Tourism and Hospitality Management, and which the Government deems as critical to Cricket Studies, to name a few, are intended national development and which it therefore Professor Hilary Beckles , Pro-Vice-Chancellor & to ensure that Barbados and the region have can be expected to support directly or Principal Cave Hill campus a cadre of professionals who are highly through grants from international agencies; competent in their respective fields. We are now turning our attention at Cave Hill, We are now turning our attention at Cave Hill, in greater in greater measure to research, which will measure to research, which will address issues of social address issues of social and economic development and which will support sound and economic development and which will support sound policy decision-making. This approach builds on the long tradition that we have established policy decision-making. for engaging in research and for offering and the research masters or doctoral Research and has allocated additional staff consultancy services to the public and private programmes, which will address issues of especially for the administration of graduate sectors in Barbados and the OECS. The national importance or generally add to the programmes. Once again, we acknowledge Faculties of Pure and Applied Sciences, knowledge base of the region, and therefore the generous grant by the Government of Humanities and Education, Social Sciences will need to be supported through funding Barbados of 33 acres of lands at Black Rock and Law as well as the School of Clinical from national and regional governments. which will allow the Campus to establish the Medicine and Research are currently reviewing Graduate School on this new site In preparation for this new thrust, the their research agendas against the Barbados whilst accommodating the continuing Campus has already separated the graduate Strategic Plan 2005-2025 and, where undergraduate expansion on the older Cave registration process from that of the possible, will develop research teams that Hill Campus lands. would concentrate on priority issues as undergraduates, has appointed a Senior outlined in the plan. Assistant Registrar for Graduate Studies and 4| CHILL NEWS CHILL News Scotia gives $1million THE ENDOWMENT FUND of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus is $1 million richer, thanks to Scotia Bank. Top executives of the bank made the presentation to Cave Hill Principal, Professor Hilary Beckles, during Scotia’s 50th anniversary celebrations at the Lion Castle Polo club in August. L-R : Pat Minicucci, Scotia Bank’s Toronto based Senior Vice President with responsibility for the Caribbean; Stephen Cozier, Scotia’s The $1m donation represents a five-year commitment to the endowment Managing Director in Barbados presented the cheque to Cave Hill fund, and Professor Beckles said such donations would go towards Principal, Hilary Beckles infrastructural development at the campus. Professor Beckles lauded the bank for its contribution and for its service to “Corporate social responsibility is integral to how we do business and the the country and the region for more than 50 years. occasion of our 50th anniversary offers us the opportunity to demonstrate “The university is in need of this kind of support . we are seeking to that this is not something we just talk about,” said Scotia’s Managing build an institution that will serve the country well and further enhance the Director Stephen Cozier. learning society,” said Beckles. Indicating that it was not the bank's first contribution to the academic The principal further said that the UWI was committed to the vision of institution, Cozier said Scotia had been associated with the UWI for many having a graduate in every household by 2020 and donations from the years, through the undergraduate scholarship programme and the Sir corporate sector were playing an important role in helping to realise the Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies. vision. Students told of key role in regional integration Student Associations at Cave Hill have been told they have an “When we place ourselves in the important role to play in accelerating development and integration global context it is clear we must within the region. move with greater urgency towards Minister of National Mobilisation and Social Development in St. Vincent sub-regional and regional and the Grenadines Michael Brown, who delivered the keynote address at integration,” he said. “In order to VINSA’s Week Lecture on October 2006, stressed the importance of civil properly grasp the complexities of Hon. Michael Brown, Minister of society in aiding governance and the need for students and their our present circumstances it is National Mobilisation, St Vincent & the Grenadines leadership to have a larger voice in shaping government policy and necessary that our analysis be charting new directions for the future. dialectical rather than mechanistic. We must understand our context as one of interconnectedness in a He suggested that the need for this involvement had grown more acute constantly changing, fluid situation even though there is constancy in with the urgent demands of the region to integrate and the pivotal role every situation.” that students could play in animating this process, even as the demands of globalisation was ratcheting up the pressure on small Caribbean According to the Minister, Caribbean peoples are in several concentric economies to project themselves more assertively into the global circles of operation: the national context as well as other spheres of marketplace. operation that include the sub-region – the OECS – CARICOM, hemispheric and global, and each of these circles impinge on our societies Minister Browne framed one of the key challenges that students had to in various ways and with varying levels of intensity. answer as how to improve the articulation between their academic studies and the objective demands and needs of their societies.