Strengthening The Regional Character of the University The University of theWest Indies Annual Report 2009/2010 The University of theWest Indies Annual Report 2009/2010 Strengthening the Regional Character of the University CAVE HILL MONA ST AUGUSTINE OPEN CAMPUS UWI Contents Introduction 4 Strengthening National Engagement Processes 84 CORE STRATEGIC AIMS Leveraging International Partnerships 88 Teaching and Learning 8 Engaging the Alumni 92 Graduate Studies 22 Research and Innovation 34 UWI FACTS & STATS University Council 2009/2010 99 Outreach to Underserved Communities 50 Staff Developments 2009/2010 103 Student Enrolment Statistics MAJOR ENABLERS 2009/2010 113 Transforming the Leadership & Administrative Culture and Processes 60 © 2011 Office of the Vice-Chancellery. Marketing and Branding 68 Published 2011. All rights reserved. The University of the West Indies, Mona, Funding the Enterprise 72 Kingston 7 Jamaica. Editor Cecile Clayton Strengthening Regionality 80 Design by Robert Harris Printed in Jamaica by Pear Tree Press Strengthening Introduction The Regional Character of the University WHILE THE MOOD OF THE UNIVERSITY has unquestion- the late Professor The Hon Rex Nettleford, former ably been impacted negatively by the continuing effects Vice-Chancellor of the University. of the global economic crisis and its consequences of Two of our academics also achieved outstanding recog- decreasing funding by contributing governments, it has nition in the past year. Dr Marcia Roye, an academic in not hindered our determination to press resolutely for- the Biotechnology Centre at Mona was awarded the wards toward achievement of our 2007–2012 strategic 2011 L’Oreal-UNESCO Advanced Fellowship Grant pro- goals. We are determined to remain the pre-eminent vided by the L’Oreal Corporate Foundation to mark the provider of education, research and outreach in the centennial of Marie Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Caribbean and the achievements of some of our excep- This award was open to International Fellows who, by tional students and academics substantiates our claim to their commitment to science and outstanding profes- these positions. During the last few months, two of our sional trajectory in the last 10 years, were identified as students, Ms Krystal Tomlinson and Mr Ricardo Brooks following in the footsteps of Marie Curie. Finally, Profes- of the Mona Campus placed first and fourth, respec- sor Surujpal Teelucksingh of the St Augustine Campus tively, in the Public Speaking section of the World was awarded the prestigious Ansa McAL award for his Debating Competition, held in Cape Town, South Africa research in Diabetes. Last year’s award went to Professor – Ms Tomlinson was first in a competition involving Kathleen Coard of the Pathology Department at Mona some 200 of the leading universities in the world. This and Professor Terrence Forrester, Director of TMRI, was was not a fluke, since, Mr O’Neil Simpson, who was another recent winner. then at Cave Hill, won the world Public Speaking Com- petition in 2005. We are also proud that the winners of It was not only in academics and research that the Uni- this year’s Jamaica and Caribbean Rhodes Scholarships versity distinguished itself, but each of our campuses – were two graduates of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, including the newly established Open Campus – staged Mona Campus. The winner of the Jamaica Rhodes countless conferences and symposia on the broad range Scholarship was Dr David Walcott and the winner of the of issues relevant to Caribbean life today. Several of Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship was Dr Luke Foster. In these were staged by the St Augustine Campus to mark the last three years, UWI graduates have won 5 of the 6 the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Campus in Rhodes Scholarships on offer in the Caribbean and our 2010. The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Eco- University’s total number of Rhodes scholars over the nomic Studies (SALISES) has embarked on a path-break- last five decades exceeds 60, a high number for any ing project entitled 50/50. Consonant with the 50th university in the world. We must remind ourselves that Anniversary of Independence in 2012 of both Jamaica some years ago, the Rhodes Trust in celebrating its and Trinidad and Tobago, SALISES will conduct a com- centenary, named five chairs in honour of its most prehensive review of the last fifty years since independ- outstanding scholars and one was given in the name of ence in those countries and the rest of the Caribbean. 04 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 “It was not only in academics and research that the The goal of the study will be first to critically explore and assess the meaning of independence, its successes, fail- University distinguished ures and contradictions and secondly, to propose con- itself, but each of our cam- crete policy measures for the future direction of the puses including the newly Commonwealth Caribbean, based on assessments made in the first part of the study. Different teams of established Open Campus academics and other relevant persons from the commu- staged countless conferences nity have formed work groups to assess areas such as and symposia on the broad the experience with the Westminster Constitution model, party politics, modes of public administration, range of issues relevant to the success (or lack thereof) of post independence eco- Caribbean life today” nomic models, education, health care, gender equity, popular culture and so on. We hope and expect this work to have a profound influence in guiding policy makers both at the regional and national levels on how we might re-structure and re-position ourselves for the next 50 years. In August 2010, following passage of the requisite legislation, Bermuda signed a Memorandum of Under- standing with the UWI allowing it to become the sixteenth member of the UWI family. Bermudan students will, effective the 2011/2012 academic year, be eligible – like other students of UWI contributing countries who are sponsored by their government – for a subsidy on tuition fees to study at any of the UWI’s four campuses. The 2007–2012 Strategic Plan remains the central platform guiding the directions of the University during the current period. In August each year, the Univer- sity’s administrative and academic lead- ers have conducted intensive reviews of achievements during the previous year and discussed challenges that need to be addressed. This report will now address some highlights of the achievements of the regional University during the past year. EON NIGEL HARRIS VICE-CHANCELLOR Mission, Vision . . . Our Mission The enduring mission of The University of the West Indies is to propel the economic, social, political and cultural development of West Indian society through teaching, research, innovation, advisory and community services and intellectual leadership. Our Vision By 2012, The UWI will be an innovative, internationally competitive, contemporary university, deeply rooted in the Caribbean, committed to creating the best possible future for all its stakeholders. It will be the univer- sity of first choice for the region’s students and talented academics. It will provide a truly supportive environ- ment that rewards excellence and it will be agile enough to thrive in a dynamic global environment. In order to achieve this vision, the UWI has committed itself to building excellence in four areas that, taken together, represent the core activities of the University, namely: teaching and learning; graduate studies; research and innovation; and outreach to underserved communities. 1. Teaching and Learning SINCE THE INTRODUCTION IN 2009 of Teaching certifica- ran two training sessions to improve the competence of tion as a condition of service for all teaching staff (newly its academic and clerical staff in advising undergradu- hired lecturers had to have it and existing staff were ates and assigned all of its students to academic given time to become certified), there has been an advisors in the Banner system. Furthermore, over 80 aggressive programme of workshops and pedagogical programmes have been entered into the Banner system training conducted by the Instructional Development allowing students to carry out their own degree Units (IDU) across all four campuses. The opportunities evaluations on-line and assess their progress to degree for upgrades in certification have been enthusiastically completion. These student advisory arrangements and embraced by the teaching staff with several members regular staff/student Liaison Committee meetings, pursuing the Certificate in University Teaching and ensure that student friendliness is kept as a high attending various workshops offered by the IDU, in such priority. technologies as Moodle. In partnership with Guardian Life of the Caribbean Ltd, Internships and other out-of-classroom learning experi- the University has each year rewarded excellence in ences continued to form part of the students’ exposure teaching with the UWI/Guardian Life ‘Premium’ Teach- and training in a wide cross-section of disciplines. At ing Award at the Mona and St Augustine Campuses. In Mona, the Faculty of Humanities & Education included 2009/2010 the St Augustine Campus, made three modules on Student Debates and Mock Trials in the Lan- awards: to Dr Shivananda Nayak, Lecturer in Clinical guage: Argument foundation course, in an effort to Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences; Dr Charlene enhance students’ analytical and communications skills. Roach, Lecturer in Public Management/Human Resource Management Studies students at St Augustine contin- Management, Faculty of Social Sciences and to Dr Grace ued to benefit from guest and part-time lecturers drawn Sirju-Charran, Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Depart- from the business and professional community and the ment of Life Sciences in the Faculty of Science and Agri- mentorship programme involving executives in the busi- culture. At Mona, Dr Aldrie Henry-Lee, Research Fellow ness community. All the Faculties have put in place a at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social & Economic system of academic counselling for students. For exam- Studies (SALISES) was the sole 2009/2010 awardee. At ple, in the Faculty of Engineering, each full-time aca- Cave Hill, Dr Paul Walcott, lecturer in the Department of demic staff member was assigned students with whom Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics, received monthly contact was expected to be made. The Faculty the Principal’s Award for Excellence for Outstanding of Pure and Applied Sciences at the Cave Hill Campus Accomplishments in Teaching and Research. The process of curriculum reform to improve relevance and enhance quality continued during the year under review. Significant efforts were made by most Faculties to ensure that their offerings were reflective of the needs of the marketplace 8 10 • E N R O LM E N T • TOTAL 43,998 CAVE HILL 8,342 MONA 13,666 ST AUGUSTINE 16,670 N OPEN CAMPUS 5,320 11 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 ICT as an enabler applications such as Symantec Antivirus and the plagia- rism detector, Turnitin, resulting in significant enhance- Teaching and Learning have been enhanced by the ment of service as well as cost savings. growth in the use of instructional technologies including multimedia projection, document visualisers, DVD Single Virtual University Space players, interactive pen tablets and the like. At all the campuses most of the classrooms have such systems In October 2009, the University received a grant installed. amounting to US$140,000 from the Caribbean Devel- opment Bank to provide Technical Assistance for the Nowhere is Information and Communication Technology implementation of the Single Virtual University Space more critical than in the Open Campus, as ICT is at the project. Procare Consulting was commissioned and core of teaching and learning in that environment. The began its engagement in April 2010. A Procare team Open Campus website (http://open.uwi.edu) features held interviews with key senior administrators of the Integrating Learning Management platforms which University including the Vice-Chancellor, Pro Vice-Chan- allow students at one campus to seamlessly access cellors, Principals and Deputy Principals, Deans and courses at another campus – a key element of the Heads of Departments. They also met with Professors, ultimate aim of achieving a single, seamless ICT space Librarians, Administrative staff, IT staff, on and off-cam- across the University. pus graduate/undergraduate students. An Inception A University ICT Working Committee consisting of the IT Report was submitted in June 2010 and is available at Directors/ Campus CIOs and IT Managers which has, http://www.uwi.edu/ictportal/projects/strengtheningre- since January 2009, been meeting on a monthly basis gionality.htm. The strategic analysis section of the final has led to greater collaboration, sharing of information report was submitted in July 2010. A review of the rec- and best practices across the University. Another impor- ommendations in the final report and agreement on a tant step has been a rationalisation of the license agree- plan of action, including identification of finances to ments concluded by each campus for critical software fund implementation are the projected next steps. 12 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Another critical element of the Single Virtual University MSc programmes in Sports Management which are the Space project is the VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) result of partnerships with the world football governing connectivity. In June 2010, phase two (involving cross- body, FIFA, and the International Centre for Sports campus telephone calls using campus extensions) was Studies (CIES) based in Switzerland. completed at Mona, St Augustine and Open Campus. The solution, rolled out to select group of users across The MSc in Marketing and Agribusiness has quickly the University, now allows 24 concurrent voice calls. The become one of the more popular postgraduate pro- Cave Hill Campus was projected to complete phase two grammes in the Faculty of Science and Agriculture by 31st August 2010. Estimated cost savings for cross- and has produced graduates from Trinidad & Tobago, campus calls are as high as US$1,267 per month per Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica and Montserrat. A BSc campus assuming 100% utilisation (24 calls x 22 work- degree programme in Computer Science was also intro- ing days x 8 hours/day x US$0.30/call/minute). duced following separation of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science into two separate Curriculum Reform – the making of Departments – the Department of Mathematics and the ‘ideal’ UWI graduate Statistics and the Department of Computing and Infor- mation Technology – as had been done at the Mona The process of curriculum reform to improve relevance Campus. The creation of these two separate Depart- and enhance quality continued during the year under ments gave the flexibility necessary for each discipline to review. Significant efforts were made by most Faculties respond to the development challenges that face the to ensure that their offerings were reflective of the region. needs of the marketplace. At the Undergraduate level the St Augustine Campus introduced four new pro- At the Cave Hill Campus, Computer Science and Infor- grammes, including two new BA degrees in Geography mation Technology continue to be the most popular and Dance. At the Postgraduate level, however, there majors, which are often combined with Faculty of Social were 16 new programmes including new Diploma and Sciences courses such as Accounting and Management. Archaeology students at Mona get familiar with forensic science 13 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 The Foundation course – Science, Medicine and Tech- regarding the inclusion of the practice of a ‘design nology in Society – had 1,272 students opting for the profile’ throughout different levels of the programme. course in 2009/2010 at Cave Hill, an increase of 8.3% In Electrical & Computer Engineering, a Quality relative to the previous year. Since the Faculty of Pure Assurance exercise, coordinated by the QAU at St & Applied Sciences began offering this course, enrol- Augustine was completed. A major accomplishment ment has steadily increased by an average of 110 during the academic year was preparing for and receiv- students each year. ing CEng accreditation for the BSc degree from the At Mona, the Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK for the introduced several new agriculture programmes at both 2010 to the 2014 intake, subject to a monitoring review the graduate and undergraduate levels. A new MSc pro- in the 2012/2013 academic year. The Mechanical & gramme, ‘Entrepreneurship in Agriculture’ was devel- Manufacturing Engineering Department focussed on oped jointly with the Faculty of Social Sciences and bringing its courses further in line with the requirements approved. The first intake of students, to be hosted by of IMechE, resulting in approvals by the accreditation the Department of Life Sciences, was expected to be body. A member of the Department has been engaged admitted in August 2010. The first UWI Engineering in the development of a contemporary casebook for the programme to be offered outside of the St Augustine teaching of Industrial Engineering, in collaboration with Campus admitted a cohort of 17 students in 2009/2010 the City University of Hong Kong. at Mona in the Department of Physics, with the collaboration of the Faculty of Engineering, St Augustine and the Mona Electronics Unit. Curriculum renewal was a major focus of the Faculty of Engineering, particularly in light of the ongoing process of external accreditation by professional accreditation authorities in the UK. The MSc in Petroleum Engineering was accredited by the UK-based Energy Institute for further Learning for Chartered Engineers (CEng) and has been granted Member of the Energy Institute (MEI) status for intake years 2009–2013. The BSc in Petroleum Geosciences was also accredited for partial Chartered Scien- tists (CSci) status and MEI status for intake years 2009–2013. Both programmes have now earned double accreditation. Minor changes have been made to the Group Field Design project in the MSc in Petroleum Engineering programme as this component of the pro- gramme is an essential requirement identified by both accreditation institutions. A major review of the curriculum for the BSc degree in Chemical and Process Engineering commenced in the second half of academic year 2009/2010. Of significance was the ongoing discussion 14 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 During the 2009/2010 academic year approval for a ment. The response from the student body to these new change of name for the Department of Surveying and offerings has been overwhelming. The Department also Land Information to The Department of Geomatics took steps to place greater emphasis on coursework, Engineering and Land Management was granted. It and gained approval for a regulation mandating stu- was felt that the new name was a better match for the dents to achieve a passing grade in both coursework revamped and expanded offerings of the Department. and exam components as a prerequisite for passing a Internship programmes were introduced for undergrad- number of courses. This increased emphasis on course- uate and postgraduate students, resulting in new job work, which often tests verbal communication, team opportunities for graduates. work and leadership skills was seen as an important step in the development of the “ideal UWI graduate”. In pursuit of the strategic aim to produce deal UWI graduates who are critical thinkers, effective communi- For much of the 2009/10 academic year, the Faculty of cators and better prepared for the workplace, the Law was engaged in resolving the issues raised by the Faculty of Social Sciences attempted to standardise impact of the proposed establishment of Faculties at the approaches taken with respect to personal development Mona and St Augustine Campuses on the sustainability initiatives and to strengthen their role within the curricu- of the legal programme at the Cave Hill Campus. Fol- lum. Accordingly, a comprehensive report was prepared lowing discussions during the year, University Council by the Faculty at Mona, assessing such initiatives. The approved the following: a three-year transition period Social Work Unit in the Department of Sociology, Psy- commencing mid-2010 after which full Faculties of Law chology and Social Work (SPSW) commenced a new would be established at the Mona and St Augustine undergraduate Disability Studies course. Several innova- campuses; agreed numbers of students from Mona and tive experiential techniques, including students simulat- St Augustine would continue to be transferred to the ing a selected disability for a day have been included. Cave Hill Campus to give that Campus a chance to The Faculty at St Augustine introduced six new under- make the readjustment; the continuation of a common graduate courses – Professional Ethics, Advanced Strate- admissions process, continued use of a common curricu- gic Management Simulation, Sociology of the Families, lum and development of strategies during the interim to Sociology of Penal Practice, Introduction to Cognitive ensure that numbers at Cave Hill are sustained beyond Psychology, and History and Systems in Psychology. The the transition years. Faculty also revised the curriculum for the Certificate in Local Government Studies programme to meet market demand. This resulted in the Ministry of Local Govern- ment contracting the Faculty to train 40 of their employees. The new Mona School of Business Masters in Business Management (MBM) which targets recent graduates, places emphasis on the practical dimension of management. It employs experiential learning approaches and provides students with a choice between an entrepreneurial and an internship focus. At the Cave Hill Campus the Department of Man- agement Studies redesigned a number of its under- graduate programmes, with a deliberate shift away from the generic BSc Management towards specialisa- tions such as Entrepreneurship, Finance, International Business, Marketing and Tourism & Hospitality Manage- 15 Several curriculum changes were implemented by the Canada and France participated in the training pro- Institute for Gender and Development Studies gramme. All participants successfully completed the (IGDS) as well. The Mona Unit of the Institute focussed programme, with five obtaining distinctions. The St its efforts on the full implementation of the new BSc in Augustine Unit saw a 50% increase in enrolment in Gender and Development welcoming 12 new students undergraduate programmes, including a new under- (10 females and 2 males), a 100% increase over the graduate course, entitled ‘Women and Work in the previous year. Among the innovations adopted was Global Economy’. restructuring the mode of delivery for first year courses Academic year 2009/2010 was one of consolidation and from on-line to face-to-face. expansion for the Faculty of Medical Sciences. There The Nita Barrow Unit (Cave Hill) continued with its was a change in Deanship at Cave Hill, consequent strategic objective of curricular expansion at the under- upon the retirement of Professor Henry Fraser, University graduate level. During the review period four new Dean and first Dean of the full Faculty of Medical Sci- courses were developed and approved by Academic ences, Cave Hill. Professor Joseph Branday assumed Board. The Unit also staged the 8th Caribbean Institute duties as Dean on August 9, 2010. Thirty-seven of the in Gender and Development. A total of thirty-one indi- 39 students in the first cohort (class of 2013) completed viduals from across the Caribbean and North America, their second year of the new full MB BS programme. As 16 At Cave Hill 37 of the 39 stu- dents in the first cohort (class of 2013) completed their second year of the new full MB BS programme Anatole Wiik, top-performing Medical Sciences exchange student from Finland. Centre (top & bottom) Medical Science students hone their suturing skills. was the case at Mona, the Year 2 courses were devel- Construction of a new Basic Medical Sciences building oped to include multidisciplinary teaching of the Basic commenced and is now almost near completion; the Medical Sciences and active preclinical/clinical integra- Departments of Microbiology was extensively refur- tion through involvement of clinicians in the parallel bished and main areas in the Department of Pathology course, ‘Introduction to Medical Practice’. These stu- significantly upgraded. Clinical training was also dents entered their 3rd year in April. This included a expanded at the Kingston and Mandeville Public Hospi- summer course ‘Understanding Research’ that allowed tals. It is worthy of note that three of the specially almost a third of the students to participate in extern- awarded medals to the graduates of the MB BS Pro- ships in St Lucia and at McGill University and Kings Col- gramme in the review year were won by candidates lege, London, followed by courses in Human Nutrition, from the Faculty at Mona. They were the Overall Clinical Health Services Management and Clinical Haematology. Medal won by Dr David Walcott, the Medicine & Thera- peutics Medal again won by Dr David Walcott and Dr At the Mona Campus, student enrolment in the Faculty Jonathan Ho and the Obstetrics & Gynaecology Medal of Medical Sciences increased by 11% over the previous won by Dr Sonya Reid. Dr David Walcott was also year. In order to ensure the maintenance of quality in named the Jamaica Rhodes Scholar while another Mona the face of the increasing numbers of students, expan- Medical Sciences graduate, Dr Luke Foster, was winner sion and improvement of facilities became critical. of the Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship, 2011. 17 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Quality Assurance reporting link between the QAU and the Board for Graduate Studies and Research in recognition of the The Office of the Board for Undergraduate Studies interest and statutory obligations of both UWI Academic (OBUS) which has been charged in the UWI 2007–2012 Boards (BUS and BGSR) in the work of quality assurance. Strategic Plan with transforming the teaching and learn- This paper was subsequently approved by the Board for ing component continued its review of University regu- Graduate Studies and Research (BGSR) and the Finance lations during academic year 2009/2010. It deliberated and General Purposes Committee (F&GPC). upon a paper on Revision of General Regulations for Quality assurance was one of the areas of collaboration Undergraduate Students and revised examination regu- on which priority was placed in the development of rela- lations to include the conduct of electronic examina- tions between the University of the West Indies and the tions. It also continued the effort to implement a new University of Guyana. The QAU, under the leadership of anti-plagiarism policy and to refine the GPA regulations. the SPO, Cave Hill, with support from the Head of the St Other policy matters considered included an analysis of Augustine IDU, led in providing advice and training to the current status of co-curricular credits and further staff from the University of Guyana as that Institution foundation course reform. As an example, it spear- sought to establish a quality assurance system. headed the transformation of the Caribbean Civilisation foundation course which is now fully on-line and avail- able through podcasting to all students. An electronic Accreditation examination system, Examsoft, was introduced which The Office of the Board for Undergraduate Studies lent facilitates a more flexible and speedier assessment its support to the Vice-Chancellor’s efforts to engage process. Progress was also made in the reform national accrediting agencies in the three countries of other foundation courses. OBUS continued its work hosting residential campuses in the concept of collabo- in the area of programme approval and was involved in rating in the regional accreditation of the UWI since the monitoring of plans for the expansion of pro- hopes of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) taking grammes in Law and Dentistry. action to establish a regional accreditation agency had During the reporting period, The Quality Assurance Unit faded. Accordingly, a paper entitled ‘A Proposal for a (QAU) organised nine quality reviews and twelve evalua- Policy on Institutional Accreditation’ was submitted to tions. For the first time, the Unit conducted a University- the Board and approved and all four campuses began wide review of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social the process of seeking national accreditation from the and Economic Studies. OBUS continued to provide sup- Accreditation Council of Trinidad & Tobago, the Barba- port for the work of the Academic Quality Assurance dos Accreditation Council and the University Council of Committees (AQACs) on each campus, including the Jamaica, respectively. The programmes delivered by the newly-formed Committee of the Open Campus. Under Open Campus would naturally be subsumed within the the leadership of the Quality Assurance Officer for the registration process of the campus countries. Open Campus, a paper on ‘Quality Assurance for the Open Campus: The Way Forward’ was considered by University Libraries the Board. The QA Officer, Open Campus and the Sen- To facilitate the University’s strategic goals of producing ior Programme Officer (SPO), Graduate Studies, collabo- graduates who are information literate, I.T. skilled and rated in professional development workshops for Open creative thinkers, the University Libraries continued the Campus staff. process of transformation into a modern, hybrid organi- During the year, the Board approved a paper ‘Reorienta- sation that offers a wide range of information resources tion of the Formal Reporting Relations of the Quality (both electronic and print) and services anywhere, Assurance Unit’ which sought to provide a formal anytime. 18 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 At the Cave Hill Campus, the Main Library increased its the portal that would serve as the single point of search collections to accommodate new courses, the creation and discovery for all of UWI library information of the Faculty of Medicine, the expansion of the post- resources. The ILS Aleph 500 software was also graduate community and the acquisition of 17 e-books upgraded from version 17 to version 20 in preparation in the Law Library. At Mona, despite dwindling financial for the actual implementation of Primo, scheduled for resources, the Main Library successfully prepared for the January 2011. new law programme by acquiring relevant titles and A repository of digitised collections, including audio legal databases including Westlaw, Lexis Nexis, Total files, is being developed as an access platform and Research System and Carilaw. Similarly, the St Augus- archiving facility for the research output of the Univer- tine Campus Libraries began the expansion of its law sity. At present there are 22 collections in development collection with the acquisition of a variety of e-books in the repository, with content available for access from and reference texts in preparation for the establishment the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Agriculture, of a full law degree programme. Humanities and Education and the Institute of Gender and Development Studies. The Open Campus has also Information technology continued to be at the forefront begun to digitise its collections and has uploaded of the University Libraries’ efforts at the transformation materials into the repository. of information services as the technical infrastructure was upgraded across the campuses. The year in review In pursuit of the strategic aim of producing information saw the University Libraries drawing closer to achieving literate graduates, the Libraries strengthened their thrust its goal of providing users with a single point of access in the area of information literacy training. There were to all types of resources in the libraries of all four cam- significant increases in the numbers of training sessions puses. In February 2010, a single search of the three with some being embedded in course offerings across catalogues of the physical campuses became possible the campuses. At the Mona Library, in an effort to pro- with the implementation of MetaLib, an additional com- vide more time for hands-on training in the foundation ponent of the integrated library system (ILS) that was courses, training videos used were uploaded to Our Vir- jointly acquired and installed at the three campuses in tual Learning Environment for use prior to and after the 2007. An agreement was signed in April 2010 for the training sessions. A Strategic Plan for further develop- Open Campus catalogues to be included in the ILS and ment and streamlining of Information Literacy training in May 2010, the University Librarian signed the agree- was articulated at the St Augustine Campus in view of ment for the acquisition and implementation of Primo, the burgeoning requests. ¶ 19 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 20 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 new faci l i t ies [ now open ] POST GRADUATE BLOCK – CAVE HILL Dedicated graduate facilities located in the 22-acre Paradise Park, fully equipped with Lecture Theatre, Lecture Rooms, Conference Room, Student Lounge, Reading Room and Computer Lab. MEDICAL SCIENCES LAB & TEACHING COMPLEX – CAVE HILL The 3-storey Faculty of Medical Sciences Laboratory and Teaching Complex, consisting of a Lecture Theatre, a Teaching Laboratory, a Multipurpose Lab, Wet Lab, Preparation Room, Research Lab and offices, was opened in October 2009. FACULTY OF LAW – MONA The Campus invested in a modern, state-of the-art building to house the Law Faculty, as well as the human and other resources that are required to outfit a world class Law Faculty. The four-storey, 46,018.4 sq ft building was financed from a loan from the National Housing Trust. 21 2. Graduate Studies THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES is committed to Department of Liberal Arts at St Augustine; developing new graduate programmes in areas that are • A Masters in Agri-Food Safety and Quality Assur- particularly relevant to national and regional develop- ance in the Department of Food Production at St ment needs, and for which there is significant market Augustine; demand. New programmes approved by the Board for • A Masters in International Finance in the Arthur Lok Graduate Studies and Research during 2009/2010 Jack Graduate School of Business at St Augustine; included: • MPhil and PhD programmes in Geoinformatics in • A Masters in Sports and Exercise Medicine in the the Department of Surveying and Land Information Faculty of Medical Sciences at Mona; at St Augustine; • A Diploma in Family Medicine in the Faculty of • MPhil and PhD programmes in Urban and Regional Medical Sciences at Mona; Planning in the Department of Surveying and Land • A Masters in Business and Management in the Information at St Augustine; Mona School of Business at Mona; • MPhil and PhD programmes in Horticulture in the • A Masters in Agricultural Entrepreneurship in the Department of Food Production at St Augustine; Department of Life Sciences and the Department of • MPhil and PhD programmes in Manufacturing Engi- Management Studies at Mona; neering and in Production Engineering and Man- • A Masters in Leadership in Technical Vocational agement in the Department of Mechanical and Education and Training (TVET) and Workforce Manufacturing Engineering at St Augustine; Development (EFD) in the School of Education at • A Masters in Building and Construction Manage- Mona; ment in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Cave Hill; • A Postgraduate Diploma and Masters in Sports • A Masters in Tourism and Hospitality Management Management in the Department of Management in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Cave Hill; Studies at St Augustine; • A Masters in Logistics and Supply Chain Manage- • A restructured programme for a Masters in Coastal ment in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Cave Hill; Zone Engineering and Management in the Depart- • A Masters in Transport Economics in the Faculty of ment of Civil and Environmental Engineering at St Social Sciences at Cave Hill; and Augustine; • A Master of Education in Instructional Technology • A Masters in English Language (TESOL) in the at the Open Campus. The School for Graduate Studies and Research seeks to ensure that research carried out at the University of the West Indies is not only of high quality but also has significant national and regional relevance and impact 22 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Quality Assurance the Office of Student Services at Cave Hill; and Electrical and Computer Engineering and French at St Augustine. An important role of the School for Graduate Studies An important initiative which began during the report- and Research is to provide Quality Assurance with ing period was a comprehensive evaluation of all Schools, respect to graduate and research programmes at the Centres and Institutes at UWI. A Quality Assurance Eval- UWI. The Work Programme of the Senior Programme uation Instrument has been developed, and meetings Officer with responsibility for Graduate Studies and with Schools, Centres and Institutes commenced in Research increased significantly in the 2009/2010 aca- November 2010. The outcome will be a Status Report demic year. Quality Assurance Reviews were conducted on all Schools, Centres and Institutes at UWI, which will for: The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Eco- be completed within the 2010/2011 academic year. Dur- nomic Studies; The English Language Section of the ing the reporting period, governance arrangements for Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, the Quality Assurance Unit were changed. The Unit is Computer Sciences and the Office of Student Services at now a semi-autonomous entity, formally reporting to Mona; Clinical Medicine, Literatures in English, the both the Board for Undergraduate Studies and the Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences and Board for Graduate Studies and Research. Graduate Enrolment and Graduation Graduate enrolment grew by 24% to a total of 9,918 students in 2009/2010 over the previous academic year; 73% of these were part-time and 27% full-time. Enrolment in research degrees (MPhil and PhD) as a percentage of total graduate enrolment declined slightly to 19% from 20% for the University as a whole, the 2009/2010 figure being 22% at Cave Hill, 19% at Mona and 18% at St Augus- tine. Thirty-seven percent of the research students were full-time and 63% part-time. There was a 10% increase in the number of higher degree graduates for 2009 over the previous academic year. This increasing trend was particularly evident for research degrees, with 28% more students graduating in 2009 than in the previous academic year. The increase in research students graduating was particularly strong at the Mona campus. The Open Campus began teach- ing its first Masters programmes in January, 2010. There was an initial intake of 73 students into a Mas- ters in Literacy Instruction, 42 into a Masters in Audit and Continuing Education and four into the post- graduate Diploma programmes in these subjects. 24 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Stakeholder Needs and the Research Ethics workshop held at Mona; the develop- University’s Research Agenda ment of a Research Ethics Research Proposal for submis- sion to the Wellcome Trust; meetings hosted by the The School for Graduate Studies and Research seeks to Seismic Research Centre to develop research proposals ensure that research carried out at the University of the on the establishment of an Early Warning Tsunami West Indies is not only of high quality but also has sig- system for the Caribbean; and workshops to develop nificant national and regional relevance and impact. The the University of the West Indies Online Researcher School organised and hosted its first ‘Colloquium on Database (UWORD). Stakeholder Needs’ as a component of Cave Hill’s first Research Day, which was held in January, 2010. The Regional Services objective was to give Public Sector stakeholders an opportunity to indicate what they consider to be their At the request of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency priority research needs, to identify areas of commonality, Management Agency (CDEMA), the School facilitated to develop projects around these areas, and to identify the participation of UWI staff in CARICOM missions in mechanisms, including funding, for their implementa- response to the disastrous earthquake in Haiti. Under tion. A total of 54 persons from twelve Ministries and the UWI-UG Collaboration Agreement, the School sup- six countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British ported UWI staff in the delivery of courses at the Univer- Virgin Islands, Grenada, Montserrat and St Vincent and sity of Guyana and facilitated research trips of University the Grenadines) participated in the Colloquium, and of Guyana staff to UWI campuses during implementa- clearly welcomed the opportunity for the University to tion of their PhD programmes at the UWI. Following a listen and respond to their concerns and priorities. request from the Prime Minister of Guyana, the School supported a visit of Seismic Research Centre staff to Inter-Campus Collaboration Guyana to investigate unidentified geological phenom- ena in the Sawariwau District, South Rupununi. The In its 2007–2012 Strategic Plan, the University identified School participated in the OECS Higher Education 15 focal areas of key relevance to national and regional Conference held in St Lucia, in the Caribbean Regional development for particular emphasis and attention. Uni- Review Meeting of the implementation of the Mauritius versity-wide institutional frameworks with the potential Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small to coordinate capacity across the campuses and achieve Island States held in Grenada, and in the design of an effective critical mass already exist for some of these EU Funding Programme for Sustainable Development in areas (e.g. Tropical Medicine, Social and Economic Policy the Caribbean and Pacific Regions held in Brussels. and Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction) but do not Memoranda of Understanding for the delivery of joint exist for others. An important initiative which began in Graduate programmes were developed and signed with the reporting period was the formal establishment of Anton de Kom University of Suriname, with Belize UWI Working Groups in key areas without a current University, and with the University of Guyana. institutional framework. Each Working Group consists of about three persons from each campus and has a International Partnerships Leader who serves on a rotational basis. A UWI Renew- able Energy Group, a UWI Climate Change Group and a During the reporting period, the School implemented UWI Agriculture and Food Security Group were estab- collaborative research projects with: the University of lished during the reporting period, and additional Belize, the University of Guyana, Anton de Kom Univer- Groups are currently being formed. Additional cross- sity of Suriname, Oxford University, the University of campus activities facilitated during the reporting period Technology, the University of Mauritius, the University of included: meetings and workshops for persons involved the South Pacific, the University of Warwick, the College in the EDULINK Financial Sustainability Project; a of the Bahamas, Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, 25 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 26 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 • P R O G R AMM E S • UNDER GRADUATE GRADUATE ONLINE TOTAL GRADUATE (TAUGHT) (RESEARCH) 41 338 231 202 799 27 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar of Senegal, Erasmus Mundus Cooperation Programme with institu- University of Dar es Salaam of Tanzania, University of tions in the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Germany and Kwaza Zulu-Natal of South Africa, the University of Portugal. Amsterdam, Centre D’etude Des Relations Entre L’Union Europeene Et L’Amerique Latine in Belgium, Universite Policies and Procedures Antilles Guyane in Guadeloupe, Universidad Iberoameri- cana in the Dominican Republic, Ministerio de Ceincia, During the reporting period, the following policy papers Tecnologia y Medio Ambiente in Cuba, the University of were prepared for approval by the relevant University the Netherlands Antilles, the University of Exeter in the Boards: ‘The University of the West Indies: Policy and UK, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK, Procedures on Research Ethics’; ‘The University of the the University of Costa Rica, the University of Mexico, West Indies Policy on Graduate Student Plagiarism’; and the University of Queensland in Australia and the ‘Procedures for Transitioning from Post-Graduate Diplo- University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. mas to Masters Programmes at the University of the West Indies’. The University’s new ‘Policy on Tuition Fees The School facilitated the activities of the UWI as Secre- and Economic Costs for Research Students’ was piloted tariat for the University Consortium of Small Island through its application to one international student at States whose members include the University of Malta, Mona and one international student at Cave Hill. The the University of the South Pacific, the University of policy promotes full or partial waiver of economic costs Mauritius, the University of the Virgin Islands and the and tuition fees for research students on a competitive University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in addition to basis, in order to facilitate the recruitment of excellent the University of the West Indies. The School also man- students from a wider catchment area, both within the aged the UWI Student and Staff Exchanges under the Caribbean and internationally. Senior Assistant Registrar, Kenneth Walters (left) and Professor Alan Cobley (centre) advising student at Graduate Studies Fair, Cave Hill 28 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Geomatics Engineering & Land Management The Department implemented its revised curricula in both its postgraduate programmes: the MSc Geoinformatics and MSc Urban and Regional Planning. Proposals for two new research programmes have been approved for immediate offering: MPhil/PhD Geoinfor- matics and MPhil/PhD Urban and Regional Planning. The Department produced two PhD graduates in academic year 2009/2010. During this period ten students graduated with the MSc Geoinformatics; five with MSc Urban and Regional Planning; one with MPhil Surveying and Land Information and two with PhD Surveying and Land Information. Dr Amarnath Chinchamee is the first Land Surveying PhD graduate from Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management. IP Protection and Technology Office of Sponsored Research at the Mona Campus, was Transfer invited by the Director-General of UNESCO in May of 2010 to serve in her personal capacity on the prestigious In collaboration with the Legal Unit, the Business Devel- International Bioethics Committee (IBC) which is com- opment Offices and the Office of Sponsored Research prised of 34 ethicists world-wide. The IBC is currently (Mona), the School continued to oversee the application focussing on three issues: cloning and its ethical implica- process for IP protection and patent registration at UWI. tions; human vulnerability and personal integrity and The School maintained the subscription for UWI to be a Traditional Medicine and its ethical implications. Ms client of the Florida-based Company, UTEK Knowledge Brown had served as Jamaica’s Representative to the Express, which has Technology Transfer offices and a Inter-Governmental Bioethics Committee of which she customer base in thirty countries. An Intellectual became Vice Chair in 2009. This was the very first time Property audit at the University of the West Indies, anyone from the Anglo-phone Caribbean had been conducted by the World Intellectual Property Organisa- named to this Committee. tion was coordinated by the School. In collaboration with the UWI’s Legal Unit, the School funded a visit by The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Eco- the legal firm WilmerHale of the USA to all campuses of nomic Studies (SALISES) which has a presence on the UWI to conduct seminars on the International Protection three campus countries, has as its mission, “to under- of UWI patents. take high-quality research and graduate teaching in the areas of social and economic development policy, gover- Ms Cheryl Brown, Attorney-at-Law and Manager of the nance and public policy with special reference to small 29 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 developing countries” and a major thrust of its vision is States: going beyond survival”. The President of the to become “an internationally renowned institution for Republic of Trinidad & Tobago, Professor George M. development policy analysis”. The work carried out in Richards, opened the Conference and hosted a cocktail 2009/2010 was in keeping with the mission and vision reception in honour of conference participants. The Sir of the SALISES as well as with the core objectives of the Arthur Lewis Distinguished Lecturer was Professor University’s Strategic Plan 2007–2012. Robert Barro, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Harvard University. He delivered a lecture on “Macro- SALISES is a graduate institution with two options: a economic Effects from Government Purchases and largely taught MSc and a dissertation driven MPhil/PhD. Taxes”. There was a record 111 papers presented, some In 2009/2010 twelve new students were admitted to of which are currently being reviewed for publication by the MPhil/PhD programmes – the largest number since the Commonwealth Secretariat as well as Social and the programme began. Three students were awarded Economic Studies. Participants came from many coun- PhD degrees and one student submitted his MPhil thesis tries: Barbados, Jamaica, Germany, UK, USA, Spain, for examination during the year. Those remaining in the France, Fiji, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Italy, Canada, Switzer- programme continued to make strides through making land, New Zealand, Netherland Antilles and Aruba. seminar presentations; attending conferences and pre- senting papers and upgrading from the MPhil to the An extremely important initiative of the Institute was the PhD. Twenty students entered the Mona based MSc pro- conception and partial elaboration of the 50/50 research gramme and thirteen students were admitted into the agenda, which is a series of seminars, conferences and MSc Developmental Statistics programme at St Augus- activities based on research clusters. The aim is to criti- tine. Eleven students were awarded the MSc degree. cally engage across a range of disciplines with the meaning of independence as the fiftieth anniversary of A major activity of the Institute during the 2009/2010 Commonwealth Caribbean independence in 2012 academic year was the Quality Assurance Review (QAR). approaches and to project the possibilities for the region The SALISES prepared its self assessment report which in the next fifty years. was submitted to the Review Team led by Professor Percy Hintzen of the University of California at Berkeley. The SALISES research programme continued apace The QAR, which was held across all three residential resulting in the publication of articles in regional and campuses from February to March, involved consulta- international journals, book chapters and technical tion with faculty, students, as well as internal and reports. These covered areas all related to the Caribbean external stakeholders. The QAR team visited all three such as social risk management, sport policy, climate campuses over the period February-March, 2010 and change, tourism, crime and violence, Caribbean produc- submitted its final report in May 2010. Implementation tive development policies, migration, cross-border equity of the recommendations of the QAR team would begin flows; stock market efficiency; the effects of community in earnest during the 2010/2011 academic year. violence in the Caribbean; Caribbean early childhood; labour market and skill formation; repositioning the The Institute continued its scholarly and professional manufacturing sector in Barbados; growth and develop- and outreach activity, which resulted in the publication ment strategy in the Caribbean; entrepreneurship and of journal articles, technical reports and its three jour- gender; Caribbean integration; global finance and nals (Social and Economic Studies, Journal of Eastern Caribbean youth. Caribbean Studies and the Caribbean Dialogue), the conduct of consulting and executive training pro- The Institute conducted surveys in Grand Riviere grammes. It also continued its public outreach activity. (Trinidad) and Georgetown (Guyana) as part of the Besides the Quality Assurance Review, the Institute suc- IDRC/SSHRC-funded CAN$2 million programme on cessfully staged the 11th annual SALISES conference on climate change. Some of the Institute’s teaching and the theme “Turmoil and Turbulence in Small Developing research activity were geared toward service to the 30 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 UWI-12 countries. The IDRC/SSHRC-funded project on deals with topics of national, regional and interna- climate change pays special attention to the island of tional interest like “Proposed Constitutional Reform Bequia in St Vincent and the Grenadines and to the in Trinidad & Tobago: One Step Forward or Two Barrier Reef in Belize while the UN ECLAC project on Steps Backward?”, “The Uff Commission: to be or climate change land tourism specifically addresses some not to be?”, “Whither Air Jamaica? Meeting the of these countries. One of the published articles looks Challenges of the Aviation Industry in the specifically at social risk management in St Lucia. Caribbean”, “The UNC Internal Elections: implica- tions for national politics” and “The 2010 General The Institute hosted a series of public lectures and Elections in Trinidad & Tobago: analysis and events which included: aftermath”; 1. Workforce Productivity in Jamaica; 7. The Caribbean Public Policy Lecture on “Migration 2. A Role for the IMF in the Caribbean; and Challenges to Caribbean Leadership” delivered 3. Civil Society in Jamaica: Resignation or Resurrec- by Dr Rosina Wiltshire. tion? (Including the Minister of National Security of 8. A Policy Forum on “Domestic Violence: From Jamaica) Research to Policy”. 4. The annual Child Research Conference 9. A public discussion on the “Barbados Green Paper 5. Conference with Duke University on ‘States of on Immigration” as part of its contribution to Freedom; Freedom of States’. Research Day activities; 6. The SALISES Forum, a public education series which 10. Regular staff seminars on a range of topics. ¶ Dr Hamid Ghany (at podium) speaking at the opening session of the 11th annual SALISES Conference at the St Augustine Campus 31 32 refurbished faci l i t ies [ now open ] BOOKSHOP – CAVE HILL The recently refurbished and extended campus Bookshop is centrally located, and serves as a resource centre for students, faculty and staff. CRICKET HIGH PERFORMANCE CENTRE – CAVE HILL Sagicor West Indies Cricket High Performance Centre. The high performance programme is a unique educa- tional and training experience which strategically works with elite athletes to enable them to fully integrate their sporting, lifestyle and career aspirations. BIODIVERSITY CENTRE – MONA A Biodiversity Centre funded by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica was established at the Port Royal Marine Laboratory. The Centre opens up new opportunities for graduate research and outreach activities. 33 3. Research and Innovation AS THE PREMIER UNIVERSITY serving the Anglophone Energy Technologies in Hamburg, Germany in 2010; Caribbean region, the UWI has a clear responsibility to and the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Science and engage in research and innovations that positively Technology Society Forum in Japan, September 2009. impact the lives of the West Indian people. The Strategic With the Business Development Office at Cave Hill, the Plan sets as one of its objectives for the University of the School co-sponsored an Intellectual Property workshop West Indies to become internationally recognised as a facilitated by the World Intellectual Property Organisa- centre of excellence in knowledge creation and innova- tion in November 2009. The Pro Vice-Chancellor tion. Accordingly, this has been pursued as a high prior- (Research) chaired the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for ity across the institution during 2009/2010. Excellence Selection Committee, and the Principal’s Awards for Excellence Selection Committee at Cave Hill. Researcher Development and Recognition The Principals of the Cave Hill, Mona and St Augustine Campuses each operate an incentive system to recog- The School for Graduate Studies and Research facili- nise and reward excellence in research by academics tated the participation of UWI staff in a number of activ- annually. During the review year some 40 faculty ities aimed at developing research skills and capacity: a members at the Mona Campus were recognised for workshop on Ethics in Research in Maryland in October, outstanding performances at the annual Awards 2009; Graduate Supervision workshops organised in Ceremony in recognition of outstanding Researchers collaboration with the Instructional Development Unit at held on January 29, 2010. St Augustine and facilitated by Professor Gina Wisker, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge; The Confer- Research Funding ence of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engi- neers, India, December 2009; a Conference on Fluid The School for Graduate Studies and Research contin- Dynamics, Analysis and Numerics in North Carolina, ued to oversee the provision and use of UWI Postgradu- June 2010; the Conference of the International Council ate Research Funds and Research and Publication Funds, for Small Businesses in Ohio, July 2010; an international as well as UWI Graduate Scholarship Funds, across the Forum on Renewable Energy in Leon, Mexico in October campuses of the University of the West Indies. The 2009; an international Conference on Innovation in School continued to fund and manage the services of Disaster Risk Assessment in Washington, June 2010; an the Community of Science (COS) Network, and to use international Conference on Developing Renewable this and other information sources to send out Calls for As the premier university serving the Anglophone Caribbean region, the UWI has a clear responsibility to engage in research and innova- tions that positively impact the lives of the West Indian people 34 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 36 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 • R E S E A R C H • International Partnerships Caribbean-based research projects with 39 Universities in 31 countries Regional Partnerships 7 current research projects with the University of Guyana 4with Anton de Kom University (Suriname) 4with the University of Belize EU-funded Partnership Projects Total value €14.2 million 37 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Proposals across the campuses. It also coordinated and emphasis was placed on younger faculty accessing avail- assisted the development and submission of research able fellowships and grant funding to jump-start their proposals of UWI staff to large donor agency funding research careers; on them assuming leadership roles in programmes which treat the University as a single insti- their respective units; and on recognising and rewarding tutional applicant and which have a limit to the number star performers. Approximately 67% of the all new of proposals that can be submitted by any one applicant Mona research fellowships and grants awarded during institution for research support, under any given Call for the 2009/2010 academic year went to faculty within the Proposals. Projects valued at a total of about US$20 31–39 years age group. million were submitted for consideration for funding during the reporting period. Research Achievements Each of the four campuses embarked on special initia- The thrust towards increasing research output to tives aimed at sourcing funds to finance research, given enhance the international standing of the University that the contributing governments have limited continued during the year under review. The University resources to allocate to research and development. continued to make significant gains towards its goal of Nevertheless the Government of Trinidad and Tobago growing and sustaining a culture of research and inno- provided $7.01 million in direct support for research vation aligned to the specific developmental needs of at the St Augustine Campus, where a total of $2.657 the region, despite the constraints faced by its academ- million was allocated to the Research and Publications ics, limited funding for research and insufficient Fund during the year. Of this sum, $1.832 million was numbers of full-time research students. provided for academic staff and $0.825 million for postgraduate student research. These funds were The Faculty of Medical Sciences, particularly at the earmarked for research projects in such areas as health, Mona Campus, has contributed significantly to the the environment, governance and finance. In addition, world literature in Medical Sciences and to health care the campus lobbied for and received significant support policy in the region. During the review year the Faculty from international organisations and funding agencies published 236 peer-reviewed papers. The following is a for research based projects. sample: • McCaw-Binns A, Ashley D, Samms-Vaughan M, Protected Time to facilitate Impact of the Jamaican birth cohort study on Research Active Staff maternal, child and adolescent health policy and practice. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2010 Jan; The UWI has developed a Policy on Differential Work 24(1):3–11. Loads geared to ensuring that research-active staff members are given smaller teaching loads than those • Tang Y, Huang S, Dunkley-Thompson J, Steel-Dun- who are less research-active while also providing a can JC, Ryland EG, St John MA, Hazra R, Christie career path for staff members whose strength is teach- CD, Feeney ME. Correlates of spontaneous viral ing rather than research. This policy is now being opera- control among long-term survivors of perinatal HIV- tionalised across the University. Related Policy and 1 infection expressing human leukocyte antigen- Procedures currently being developed will facilitate the B57. AIDS. 2010 Jun 19;24(10):1425–35. temporary assignment of academic staff to Research • Crandon IW, Cawich SO, McLennon N, Harding HE, Institutes and Centres for specific periods to provide Gordon-Strachan G.: Trans-Sphenoidal Resection of them with dedicated research time and a research- Pituitary Tumours: Therapeutic Outcomes with the oriented environment. At the Mona Campus specific Sub-Labial Paraseptal Approach. Int J Neurosurg. efforts were made to increase the developmental oppor- 2009;6(2). tunities available to young faculty. For example, greater The Faculty at Mona was able to attract research grants 38 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 totalling US$2,607.881.00. At St Augustine the Faculty received research grants totalling US$334,538.41 while at the Cave Hill Campus the Faculty of Medical Sciences was approved as a Cardio- vascular Centre of Excellence by the Consortium for Southeastern Hyper- tension Control (COSHEHC). The research efforts of the Faculty at Mona were boosted during aca- demic year 2009/2010 by the estab- lishment of multidisciplinary Tumour Boards and a web-based renal reg- istry. Restructuring and resumption of the Invitro Fertilisation and Embryo Transfer programme for infertile couples added lustre to the Faculty’s offerings as did the Depart- ment of Microbiology’s receipt of certification under the WHO External Quality Assess- ment Programme. Across the University, academic staff members continue to serve the international scholarly community through refereeing services and requests for guest editorships of journals and conference proceedings. The Climate Change research group in the Departments of Physics were called upon to help the region monitor and pre- pare for adverse weather changes and strengthen the regional negotiating positions at the 2009 Copenhagen Conference on Global Climate Change. The Department of Life Sciences at Mona was called upon to help Jamaica deal with invasive species, espe- cially the Lion Fish, which threatened to obliterate the country’s fish stock. The conservation work being done in the Department has attracted large sums of renewed and new funding as its global significance continues to be recognised and highly valued. In this regard there were several collaborative visits from the USA to the Department. UWI Mona was called upon to help Jamaica deal with invasive species, especially the Lion Fish, which threatened to obliterate the country’s fish stock. 39 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Clinic, Vanderbilt University, and University of Washing- ton. Three more will be built and delivered to Johns Hopkins University, University of Southern California, and Stanford University. At St Augustine, the Faculty of Science and Agriculture completed research projects in the following areas: • VLSI implementation of various Digital Signal processing algorithms. • Water potabilisation, in collaboration with Massey University, New Zealand. • Development of the Caribbean’s first Fuel Cell Materials Research Lab. • Modification, analysis and testing of a Solar Timber Dryer for adoption by industry. Marine Biology students taking an inventory of reef life • Usability study of computer-oriented workplaces in British Gas, Trinidad & Tobago. Cardiac Surgery Simulator: This UWI innovation has • Development of a Caribbean-wide Healthcare continued to improve and generate impressive interest Management system based on cellular phone and orders for units from a consortium of major cardiac technology. surgery schools in the USA (such as University of North • Initiatives towards sustainable agriculture, including Carolina (Chapel Hill), Rochester University, Massachu- soil and environmental factors and postharvest setts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School), Mayo handling. Cardiac Surgery Simulator at Mona (Right) Cardiac Surgery Simulator being demonstrated 40 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Graduate students at the Dame Nita Barrow Unit (Cave Hill) of the Ms Tonya Haynes making her presentation at the Graduate Symposium “New Institute of Gender & Development Studies Perspectives: (Re)-Thinking Gender, Culture and Sexuality in the Caribbean” Institute of Gender and on April 26 & 27, 2010 attended by over seventy educa- Development Studies tion professionals and policy makers, representing four- teen CARICOM countries. The workshop ended with recommendations for the drafting of an Education In keeping with the thrust of the UWI Institute of Gen- Policy to be tabled at an upcoming meeting of the der and Development Studies (IGDS) to be responsive to CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development development needs and issues in the Caribbean it (COHSOD) for consideration. The proposed policy takes undertook during the review period several research and into account micro-level as well as broader macro-level outreach initiatives aimed at strengthening and expand- structural issues which contribute to gender differentials ing the breadth and scope of its local, regional and in the education systems of CARICOM states. international research agenda. These initiatives include research on youth issues, migration and its relation to The ongoing Caribbean Women Catalysts for Change gender and environment in the Caribbean, gender and project is now in its third phase, to date having pro- sexuality, reproductive health, transformational leader- duced two publications. Justice Desiree Bernard, who is ship, implications of trade and the European Partnership the subject of the third book, has already been inter- Agreement and gender, climate change and disaster risk viewed by most of the authors and the book is slated management. for publication in 2011. The Regional Coordinating Unit of the Institute contin- The IGDS continues to be sought after as an Institute of ued to participate in regional research which impacted excellence in research by both state and non-state on policy-making throughout the Caribbean. A key actors, who both seek the Institute’s expertise on issues example of this was the conclusion of ‘The Gender Dif- related to gender and development. It is one of the ferentials at the Secondary and Tertiary Levels of the agencies which have come to be depended upon for its Educational System in the Anglophone Caribbean’ proj- advisory services by a number of national, regional and ect, which culminated in a two-day regional workshop international organisations. 41 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Summary of External Research Adolescent HIV/AIDS valued at US$573,809; Funding • Europe AID: One project on the Development of CSME Public Education Projects valued at The School for Graduate Studies and Research has now €412,000. established a fully operational University-wide system for coordinating, facilitating and enhancing the quality The Tropical Medicine Research of research proposals being prepared across the Univer- sity for submission to external funding programmes Institute which treat the University as a single institutional appli- A major research arm of the University is the Tropical cant and which have a limit to the number of applica- Medicine Research Institute (TMRI) which was formed in tions that can be submitted by any one applicant 1999 by merging two existing research units, the Tropi- institution. This system, coupled with the increasing cal Metabolism Research Unit and the Sickle Cell Unit on emphasis on working with external Partner Universities, the Mona Campus and creating an Epidemiology is significantly increasing UWI’s competitiveness for Research Unit from the staff members in the TMRU who external research grants, resulting in a 9% increase in worked in that discipline. A year later, the Institute income from this source in the 2009/2010 fiscal year. expanded into Barbados by incorporating the Chronic The major funding agencies and programmes from Diseases Research Centre, another epidemiology unit on which the UWI was awarded grants in 2009/2010 were the Cave Hill Campus. Currently under active considera- the EU-EDULINK programme, the EU-ACP Science and tion, funds permitting, are plans to add an Energy Technology programme, the EU FP7 programme, DFID, Metabolism Research Unit at Mona and at St Augustine. IDRC, IDB, the Global Health Fund and Europe Aid. While the University provides a resource base for the Some of the larger grants won from these sources and TMRI as a line item in its budget (supporting approxi- implemented by Consortia in which UWI was either mately 30 academic staff, real estate and utilities’ costs Lead or Partner in 2009/2010 include: across all Units), all research activity is expected to be • EDULINK: Two projects on Conservation and grant funded. Senior investigators at the TMRI have a Sustainable Development valued at €483,361 and track record of acquiring funds from international €629,693, and one project on Financial Sustainabil- sources, chief ones being the National institutes of ity of TLIs valued at €521,393; Health (USA), the Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research • ACP S&T: One project on Urban Planning and Council (UK) and the European Union. More recently, Management valued at €1,084,963 and one on significant local grants have been obtained primarily at Watershed Management valued at €1,121,811; Mona in Jamaica. During academic year 2009/2010 • EU FP7: One project on the management of Coral expenditure from grants was US$573,250.44. Reef Ecosystems valued at €8,581,206, and one on Strengthening Caribbean and European Collabora- Academic Activity tion in Science and Technology valued at The Institute is active in training at undergraduate and €1,767,654; postgraduate levels. The TMRI faculty teaches both • DFID: One project on Monitoring the Soufriere undergraduate and graduate medical students in the Volcano in Montserrat valued at €9,000,000; areas of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Family Medicine, • DRC: One project on Climate Change and Coastal Paediatrics, Immunology, Clinical Nutrition and Haema- Communities valued at US$925,898; tology. MSc degree programmes in Nutrition and Epi- • DB: One project on Regional Non-Communicable demiology are offered and the Institute operates a Diseases valued at €800,000; structured postdoctoral programme which aims to • Global Health Fund: One project on Perinatal and develop independent academic researchers. There are 42 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Senior Medical Technologist explains some of the processes in the TMRU chemistry lab three Faculty of Medical Sciences fellowships tenable on • Sickle Cell Disease – Natural History; Clinical Trials; the Mona Campus and three TMRI institutional fellow- Interventions for improved care ships. The Institute responds to regional research and • Epidemiology and Genetic Risks for Prostate Cancer training needs while encouraging individual creativity • Chronic Disease Epidemiology to inform Public and initiative. Health. Research output in the form of peer reviewed papers In addition, the Institute provides technical advice at sev- was approximately 3.0 per academic member of staff in eral levels: to Caribbean Ministries of Health and Educa- 2009/2010. Major areas of ongoing research include: tion; CARICOM Ministers of Health; the Pan American Health Organisation; the International Atomic Energy • Human Nutrition and Metabolism Agency; the Wellcome Trust and the UK Medical • Protein, amino acid metabolism in severe Research Council. With regard to quality assurance and malnutrition benchmarking, the TMRI is appraised quinquennially by • Energy Metabolism in transitional populations an external team supported by the UK Medical Research • Child Development – Impact of early life experi- Council. Policy oversight is provided by the Board for ences and interventions Graduate Studies and Research • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease • Hypertension and insulin resistance Tangible results of TMRI Research: • Genetic underpinnings of disease susceptibility and severity Programmes in the Child Development Research • Hypertension Group located within the Epidemiology Research Unit, • Diabetes are directed at solving many of the important issues that 43 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 act as barriers to increasing the value of human capital Human Nutrition and Metabolism programme. Research in poor and middle income societies. Cross-Unit collabo- based knowledge arising especially from the older pro- ration with the TMRU and more recently the Sickle Cell gramme on metabolism in childhood malnutrition has Unit, have brought the skills of this group to bear on informed the WHO Manual on the treatment of malnu- mental development and cognition of paediatric trition, a clinical guide that is used globally. The informa- patients with sickle cell disease. This programme delivers tion from the newer energy balance sub-programme research-based advice to the Government of Jamaica as has only recently become mature enough to guide or well as international agencies such as the World Bank; inform the design of interventions. much of the information is ready for uptake into policy Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Pro- and programmes. gramme, also undertaken by the TMRU, is focussed on Human Nutrition and Metabolism Programme car- detailed phenotyping at body composition, cardiovascu- ried out within the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit lar and insulin resistance levels, and targeted exploration (TMRU) addresses two practical problems: (i) improving of epigenetic underpinnings of such phenotypes. The the clinical care for patients recovering from severe main programme has utilised the extensive phenotyping childhood malnutrition, and (ii) prevention and manage- at the level of intermediary metabolism in children with ment of weight gain and obesity at individual and popu- severe childhood malnutrition to form hypotheses relat- lation levels. The metabolism programme spans both ing to emergence of obesity or resistance to weight gain the TMRU and the Sickle Cell Unit and a significant and cardiovascular risk in adult survivors of kwashiorkor segment of that latter Unit’s future work falls within the and marasmus. The intuitive ecologic analogy at popula- tion level, i.e., chronically undernourished versus ade- quately nourished populations, is also being used to mount comparative studies of epigenetics, metabolism, physiology and body composition of Africans living in Africa (Ghana and South Africa) with those descending from forced migrants now living in Jamaica. Genetics Programme. The contribution of DNA sequence variation to health and disease is the focus of the TMRU Genetics Programme. Virtually all pro- grammes carried out in the Institute can benefit from a significant component of such a genetic strategy. The limitation of the programme, given its non-disease limited orientation is therefore, capacity. The very small TMRU Genetics team has focussed its principal research activities on the identification and, ultimately, the char- acterisation of inherited determinants of phenotypic variation between individuals. Research in the Genetics Programme comprises sub-programmes in sickle cell anaemia, human nutrition, and car- diovascular disease. These sub-programmes are interdisciplinary and engage investigators from different Units (ERU, CDRC, SCU & TMRU) within the Institute. 44 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 SCU carries out its research, its programme con- sisting of observational cohort studies, refining phenotypic expressions with the aims of facilitat- ing genetic research, and providing data to inform public health and clinical interventions. This pro- gramme of Clinical Research has placed the Unit in a leadership position within the Caribbean, the United States and Canada, and recently, Brazil has made formal approaches for partnership to improve care in that country. Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (CNCD) Programme. The Chronic Diseases Programme is expressed primarily in the two TMRI Epidemiology Units, the Chronic Disease Research Centre at Senior Nurse attending to one of her charges on the TMRU Ward UWI Cave Hill and the Epidemiology Research Unit at UWI Mona. Both pursue robust programmes on Sickle Cell Programme. This very special programme is epidemiology of chronic diseases with a view to popula- rooted in the provision of high quality, evidence-based tion prevention and disease management. It is impor- clinical care for thousands of patients with sickle cell dis- tant to emphasize the international importance of this ease. Through its incorporation of research findings into programme on CNCDs in developing countries. One clinical care guidelines, the Unit has come to be interna- indication of the importance is the recent multimillion tionally regarded as generating best practice for clinical pound resourcing that the MRC UK has recently placed care of patients with sickle cell disease. Within the con- into the consortium known as the Global Action against text of this substantial ambulatory care undertaking, the Chronic Disease (GACD) in developing countries. The Technologist engaged in cord blood screening 45 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 TMRI’s work in chronic diseases is aligned with the pro- economic and social costs associated with these gramme priorities of reducing CNCDs in developing diseases in order to guide cost-effective healthcare countries. interventions. Inflammation and Wound Healing Programme. This TMRI Contribution to UN Resolution on CNCDs. is a CDRC programme that spans Units (TMRU and SCU) Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (CNCDs) are and disease foci as it seeks to evaluate the contribution widely recognised as a threat to the development of the of molecular mechanisms to disease aetiology. The spe- Caribbean region, with half or greater shares of national cific foci include models for inflammation and wound health budgets devoted to treatment of these preventa- healing in diabetes, in recovery from cardiopulmonary ble diseases. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) surgery, and in haemolytic conditions. These investiga- Heads of Government asserted in their Nassau Declara- tions into disease mechanism have real promise for tion of 2001 that “The health of the region is the informing changes in clinical practice in diabetes, sickle wealth of the region”. CARICOM has since led interna- cell disease and cardiac surgery. tional efforts to recognise the impact of CNCDs on national development, culminating in endorsement of CDRC Capacity-Building. Finally, a new core pro- their initiative by the United Nations General Assembly gramme has been added to reflect the capacity-building on May 14 2010. A United Nations Conference with which the CDRC has undertaken in the past five years, participation by Heads of State and Governments both infrastructural and in human resource training, at focussed on systematic efforts to curb CNCDs across the national and regional levels. 192 member countries of the UN is planned for Septem- Sickle Cell Disease Clinical Services. The Sickle Cell ber 2011. The UN Endorsement arose from work carried Unit (SCU) is the only comprehensive type clinical facility out by the ‘Caribbean Commission on Health and for the care of persons with sickle cell disease in Development’ in 2005 headed by Sir George Alleyne, a Jamaica. Sickle Cell Clinics are held Mondays to Fridays former director of the Pan-American Health Organisa- at the SCU building located at Ring Road, University of tion (PAHO) and current Chancellor of The UWI. The the West Indies, Mona as well as on the last Tuesdays Commission drew heavily on data provided by the and Wednesdays of each month at St Elizabeth (Black CDRC and ERU units of the TMRI on incidence and River Hospital) and St James (Cornwall Regional Hospi- prevalence of hypertension, stroke, AMI and diabetic tal) respectively. foot amputation in Caribbean populations. A subse- quent CARICOM Summit in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 2007, further underlined the deter- mination of the Caribbean region to slow the chronic disease pandemic with the “Declaration of Port-of- Spain: Uniting to stop the epidemic of chronic dis- eases”. The expertise of the TMRI was again recognised and utilised at the civil society-led conference titled “Healthy Caribbean 2008 – A Wellness Revolution” that arose directly from the Summit, when the CDRC pro- duced a Technical Report of the conference, available at www.healthycaribbean.org. The CDRC focuses primarily on research to i) establish robust systems for monitoring the burden of chronic non-communicable diseases, and ii) develop evidence-based strategies for reducing the burden of these diseases, as well as iii) estimate the Professor Clive Landis (CDRC) showing new equipment to visitors to the Cave Hill Campus 46 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 The SCU operates an ambulatory clinic and a day-care ward where complications such as acute painful crises, acute febrile illness and acute anaemia are managed. Over 90% of patients with acute painful crises are man- aged as outpatients and this model of aggressive acute day-care has acted as a model for SCD Centres else- where. There has been a continual increase in the num- ber of patients attending the clinic (patient load) and RECIPIENTS OF THE the number of visits per patient (clinic load). The clinic VICE-CHANCELLOR’S load has increased ~10-fold, from 3,668 visits in AWARD FOR 1973–75 to 55,686 visits in 2005–2010. EXCELLENCE 2009/2010 Neonatal Screening DR DAVE CHADEE, Senior Neonatal screening was first performed on 100,000 Lecturer in Parasitology, consecutive normal deliveries at the Victoria Jubilee Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Agricul- Hospital (VJH) between 25 June 1973 and 27 December ture, St Augustine Campus for 1981 for enrolment into the Jamaica Sickle Cell Cohort accomplishments in Research Study (JSCCS). This resulted in the detection of 550 children with all sickle genotypes of which 315 were PROFESSOR CLIVE LANDIS, homozygous sickle cell disease. A control group of 250 Professor in Cardiovascular Research, Chronic Disease age and gender matched normal children were also Research Centre, Cave Hill recruited. Data from this cohort has facilitated the Campus, for accomplishments description of the evolution of SCD from birth and has in Research led to improvements in the care of individuals with SCD PROFESSOR MAUREEN in Jamaica and worldwide. The cord blood screening SAMMS-VAUGHN, Professor program was re-established at the VJH in 1995, at the of Child Health, Child Devel- University Hospital in 1997 and at the Spanish Town opment and Behaviour, Hospital in 1998 and is maintained by the Sickle Cell Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health Unit. Annually more than 15,000 births are screened, for outstanding Public Service which represent ~ 40% of births in Jamaica. For the period 2006 to 2008, 889 persons were detected with DR KUSHA HARAKSINGH, sickle cell disease of which 550 were the severe variant, Senior Lecturer, Department of HbSS. Of these, 395 have been enrolled in the SCU History, Faculty of Humanities Clinic for clinical care. For these children, mortality to and Education, St Augustine for outstanding contribution to age 10 years has decreased from 17.6% to 1.8% during Public Service the period. The reintroduction of neonatal screening has allowed for early diagnosis and simple prophylactic PROFESSOR JOHN AGARD, measures such as infection prevention (penicillin prophy- Professor of Tropical Ecology and Head of the Department of laxis), immunisations and parental education in early Life Sciences, Faculty of Sci- diagnosis of acute splenic sequestration, thus decreasing ence & Agriculture, St Augus- childhood deaths because of SCD. ¶ tine for all-round excellence in Research and Public Service 47 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 48 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 sports faci l i t ies [ now open ] USAIN BOLT TRACK – MONA The UWI/Usain Bolt Regupol Track at the ‘Mona Bowl’. German track manufacturers BSW donated this track to The Hon Usain Bolt; and Bolt, who trains at the Bowl, formally handed the track over to the Mona Campus on April 30, 2010. NEW ALL-WEATHER HOCKEY FIELD – CAVE HILL New all-weather Hockey field. Top-rated sand-filled artificial hockey turf fitted with lights to allow night matches, was developed at the Cave Hill Campus during the 2009/2010 academic year. FIFA STANDARD FOOTBALL FIELD – CAVE HILL The FIFA Certified artificial grass football field developed at Paradise Park, 22 acres of property adjacent to the Cave Hill Campus donated by the Government of Barbados. 49 4. Outreach to Underserved Communities THE 2007–2012 STRATEGIC PLAN has as a core strategic Despite severe short-falls in promised contributions from focus the creation of an Open Campus to enable the the governments and the continuing economic crisis University to expand the scope, enhance the appeal and throughout the region, student numbers at the Open improve the efficiency of its service to the individuals, Campus have held firm in the past year. Continuing communities and countries that it serves by providing education programmes catered to almost 20,000 per- more flexible and convenient access for persons from all sons, the vast majority, as always, being in Trinidad the contributing countries wishing to pursue higher although somewhat less than in the previous year education or continuing personal development pro- (approx. 12,000) and with a considerable increase in grammes. The Open Campus came into being in 2008 Jamaica (over 5,000). This is in part attributable to the and the institutional machinery necessary for its exis- relocation and transformation of two Open Campus tence within the University has been put in place. Yet, sites which were dilapidated and had previously much remains to be done to find efficient ways of col- attracted only a few students. The degree programmes laborating with the other campuses in achieving the recruited a little fewer than 5,000 students, of whom fundamental goal of increasing access and bringing the almost 3,000 were based in the three campus countries. varied benefits of a university to all the underserved The number of students attending the Social Welfare populations of the region. Training Centre at Mona also showed a welcome increase, from 78 students in the previous year to 102 in The separate existence of the Campus was proclaimed 2009/2010. in no uncertain manner by the installation of the Princi- New programmes developed and offered by the Open pal and the Campus’ first graduation ceremony, both of Campus during the review year included: which took place in St Lucia in October, 2009. A total of 157 graduands attended the graduation ceremony from • a full BSc Accounting degree 12 territories. In attendance also, were the Governors • Pre-University Certificates in Entrepreneurship, General of Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, Health & Family Life Education and Criminology. Grenada and host country St Lucia; Ministers of Educa- • a Diploma in Accounting and a Diploma in tion (St Lucia and Montserrat), a Deputy Prime Minister Advanced Bookkeeping, franchised from the (St Kitts & Nevis) and the Minister of Home Affairs and UK-based International Association of Bookkeepers, Internal Security (St Lucia) were also present. with 205 students at 11 sites. The 2007–2012 Strategic Plan has as a core strategic focus the creation of an Open Campus to enable the University to expand the scope, enhance the appeal and improve the efficiency of its service to the individuals, communities and countries that it serves . . . 50 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Student co-curricular activity Ms Stacey Fevriere of the St Lucia Site represented the Open Campus at the 2010 Summer Institute for future global leaders at the University of the Virgin Islands. Alumni Sites continued to provide support to the local UWI alumni chapters and also to play a more proactive role in promoting the importance of the UWI Alumni Associ- ation as a partner in the development of the Open Campus and the UWI in general. In 2009/2010, chap- ters in Cayman and St Lucia were revitalised through the effort of the respective Heads of Sites. The Cayman Orientation session at the start of a new semester, UWI Dominica site chapter hosted a Caribbean Independence Fiesta which featured food and music from across the Caribbean. A large number of short courses developed at different One welcome development has been the involvement sites, including English Language Proficiency Enhance- of alumni in participating in the Sites’ annual orientation ment (Antigua); a Workforce Development programme sessions as well as Open Days and general fund raisers (Barbados); Introduction to Counselling and Group Tech- for the individual Site. The Bahamas and Dominican niques for HIV Caregivers (Belize); Computer Literacy Chapters have consistently hosted successful fundraising (Cayman Islands); Early Childhood Care and Education, events. and Criminology (Dominica), Events Planning and Man- agement, Care of the Elderly (Montserrat), Certificate in Upgrading facilities Information Management (St Kitts and Nevis), Supervi- sory Management, Financial Management (St Lucia). • Dominica installed two 1,000 gallon water tanks and a pump to ensure that students were not dis- In addition, the Social Welfare Training Centre (SWTC) advantaged by fairly frequent water stoppages in worked on developing a BSc degree programme in the area of the Site. Youth Work, an initiative that will contribute to the Commonwealth’s goal to professionalise Youth Work. The Caribbean Child Development Centre (CCDC) con- tinued development work on its course on Child Rights for online delivery across the Caribbean. Local Student Guilds Working closely with the new Assistant Registrar for Student Services, Ms Daniella Hickling, the Heads of Sites have been encouraging students to organise them- selves into formal student guild branches. In the year under review several more branches were formally launched and an over-arching Open Campus Guild structure was created. Orientation session at the Western Jamaica Campus, Montego Bay 52 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 munity as well as the needs of the trainees in the Early Childhood programmes offered by the Open Campus Trinidad and Tobago. • The Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Institute computer laboratory was launched on December 10, 2009 by Professor Emeritus the Hon. Rex Nettleford. Outreach Activities and Research Projects The Site Head of Grenada, Dr Curtis Jacobs, was awarded the project to digitise the national archives of Grenada in collaboration with the Grenada national The Hon Andrew Holness, Minister of Education, Prof Simmonds-McDonald, Prin- cipal; Mr Derrick Thompson; Mrs Gillian Glean-Walker, and Mrs Maurine Powell, library and the University of Manchester. at the official opening of the refurbished Mandeville OC site. The Women and Development Unit (WAND) • St Lucia created a small space to house its special followed up earlier work with organisations in Latin collections of the works of Roderick Walcott and America (PARTICIPA Corporation, a Chilean NGO; the Pat Ismond in the Library. Venezuelan Institute for Social and Political Studies, • The ECCE unit in Trinidad moved into spacious and INVESP, and Foundation of the Americas, FOCAL; a attractive accommodations at Austin Street in St Canadian NGO and the Organisation of American Augustine and a new model school, Alpha East, States) to monitor compliance with government com- was opened up on the premises to serve the com- mitments through the creation of an Evaluation Index of The annual Open Day at the Jamaica Eastern OC site attracted potential students of all ages. 53 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 • Open Campus Country Sites (OCCS) staff and students in fifteen countries were involved in the Situational Analysis on Sexuality Education in the Caribbean – a project co-ordinated by the UWI Consulting Company with funds from UNICEF. • All Sites also participated in an internal study led by Dr Glenford Howe entitled: Human Resource Devel- opment Needs Assessment of CARICOM countries, for the purpose of informing the Open Campus programme development agenda. • WAND was involved in a project, Quantifying and Analysing Gender Violence Data in Nevis, funded by MATCH International, Canada. Professor Verene Shepherd, Director of the IGDS, delivering the annual Dame Eugenia Charles Memorial Lecture at the UWI Open Campus, Dominica • WAND also led a Community-based Disaster Man- agement Project for Catadupa Primary and Junior Government Compliance with the approved mandates High and Catadupa Basic Schools in Jamaica. of the Summits of the Americas. Information related to Spearheaded by the Principal of the Primary and the thematic areas, namely, access to public information Junior High School and a select group of teachers, and strengthening the participation of civil society in the project was guided by Ms Audrey Mullings, systems of democratic governance in Barbados was Disaster Risk Management specialist, who also gathered for posting on PARTICIPA’s website. conducted the training sessions. Externally funded research initiated or undertaken by the units of the Open Campus included: Dissemination of knowledge and ideas relevant to the region was facilitated by a number of conferences • The Consortium for Social Development and organised within the Campus, namely: Research (CSDR) and the Office of the Principal in collaboration with European Profiles, a research • The Sage Has Come of Age – Responding to the organisation based in Greece, were successful in sad loss of Professor the Hon Rex Nettleford, who bidding for two projects in December 2009: had been the first Director of Studies of the Trade • Development of Caribbean Single Market and Union Education Institute (TUEI/HLSTUEI) the Insti- Economy (CSME) Public Educational Products tute organised a symposium in his honour. The title and Assessment of the Impact of Previous “The Sage Has Come of Age” was taken with per- Products (€ 412,000). mission from Professor Sir Hilary Beckles’ tribute to • CSME, Rural Communities Readiness Study Professor Nettleford. With the support of Principal, (€ 65,200). Professor Gordon Shirley, the symposium was • The Saint Lucia site partnered with the CCDC, hosted in collaboration with the UWI Mona the CSDR, the Ministry of Education and Culture Campus on April 7–8th, 2010. and UNESCO, to facilitate a research project on • The second research teleconference hosted by the “The Impact of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimina- Consortium for Social Development and Research tion on Children’s Learning Outcomes and School- (CSDR) was held on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Related Experiences”. Research was carried out in through the Open Learning Centre facilities. Open Saint Lucia and Guyana, and the local administra- Campus sites in attendance were Belize, British Vir- tion of the project was monitored by the Head of gin Islands, Dominica, and Montego Bay and Mona Site, Mrs Veronica Simon. sites in Jamaica. 54 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 • WAND continued its support for reflection on the held on July 14, 2010. The workshop examined the position of women in theological matters and issue of “Productivity and Economic Development: helped to organise a “Theologising Women” Con- Assessing the Concept of Time Management ference” on March 26, 2010 in collaboration with among Jamaican Workers”. the Hillcrest Retreat Centre of the Anglican Church The CCDC also organised training workshops: in associ- under the theme, “Theologising Women through ation with The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and the Creative Arts.” Economic Studies (SALISES) and with support from the The Campus organised a number of fund-raising and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Envi- consciousness-raising activities in response to the devas- ronmental Foundation of Jamaica, the CCDC hosted tating earthquake in Haiti. Four scholarships were two one day workshops for teachers. Each day the two awarded to Haitian students through the OAS, to pur- topics covered were Child Rights and Research Method- sue studies online in the Pre-University Department. ologies. On May 20, 2010, 64 secondary school teach- ers attended, while on June 10, 80 primary school The Campus’ routine training and outreach activities teachers attended. The CCDC was responsible for the continued, for instance: training components, which were carried out by associ- The Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education ate Heather Gallimore (Child Rights) and consultant Lisa Institute (HLSTUEI) organised a number of public activi- Stone (Research Methodologies). ties in Jamaica and elsewhere: The Open Campus’ commitment to cultural dissemina- • A workshop in collaboration with the Friedrich tion was expressed in various ways, including: Ebert Stiftung, “Exploring Labour issues in the • Performances of Derek Walcott’s play “Pantomime” global economy” September 24–25, 2009, in by the Barbados based group Dramaworks in Jamaica. St Lucia and in Trinidad and Tobago in January • A week of activities led by HLSTUEI and the OC 2010. Cayman Islands, November 23–27, 2009, which • The St Lucian Open Campus involvement in Nobel included a workshop on “Gender, Power & Laureate’s week in January. Caribbean Development” facilitated by Professor Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland and Ms Marva • The Malliouhana Poetry Festival sponsored by the A. Phillips. The final event was a public lecture Open Campus in Anguilla in April. which addressed the topic “The Development of • The Alliouagana Festival in Montserrat in Caribbean Political Systems” and was presented by November. Professor Emeritus George Eaton, York University, • A song-writing workshop at the Saint Lucia site in Canada. April, in collaboration with the Cultural Develop- • A workshop on “Natural Disaster & the Workers: ment Foundation and the 1st National Bank Saint Preparation, Impact and Responses” on June 17, in Lucia Limited. This workshop, conducted by Dr Kingston. Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool, targeted calypsonians • A Professional Development Initiative “Protocols and other songwriters as well as music teachers and Professional Conduct in the Workplace”. from secondary and primary schools. It also • In collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung included a component for persons who serve as conducted a workshop in Mandeville on June 10 judges for calypso competitions. and 11, 2010 entitled “Caribbean Single Market • The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, and Labour Migration: Prospects and Challenges the University of Puerto Rico and the University of for Caribbean Workers”. the West Indies Open Campus, Dominica, collabo- • The first in the series of bi-monthly workshops was rated in the mounting of the 12th Annual Eastern 55 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Caribbean Island Cultures Conference entitled ‘The The Western Jamaica Campus Islands in Between: Languages, Literatures and Cul- tures of the Eastern Caribbean’. This conference The Mona Campus’ satellite campus in Montego Bay, took place on Thursday, November 5 – Saturday, the Western Jamaica Campus (WJC) was significantly November 7, 2009, at the Open Campus Dominica. upgraded, with the conversion of two existing struc- tures, one into the new WJC Medical School and the • The Montego Bay Site celebrated Black History and other into a student hall of residence. Reggae month simultaneously by hosting a public forum entitled “Engaging the Culture”: Building a UWI School of Nursing, Mona (UWISON) continued Nation through Music and Dance” on the Campus to play an important role in ensuring that nurses in the grounds on February 27, 2010. The guest speaker, UWI-12 countries are upgraded to Bachelor’s level Professor Carolyn Cooper, engaged the audience through its online nursing programme. There was a 13 with a thought-provoking and witty historical per- percent increased enrolment in this programme. In the spective of Jamaican music and its connection with MB BS Programme the Faculty of Medical Sciences took the folk psychology of the Jamaican people. steps to ensure that the UWI-12 countries were repre- sented in the incoming class, through careful vetting of Some significant publishing events deserve mention: the applications. Offers were made to all qualified appli- • Papers from the HLSTUEI lecture series “Forever cants from the UWI-12 countries. Indebted to Women” were published in a special The Faculty continued to provide support to rural hospi- issue of Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 4 Decem- tals island-wide in their efforts to offer preventive and ber, 2009. curative medicine. In addition, staff offered consultation • Gaspard-Richards, Denise – Male Reproductive services at several health care facilities and formed a Behaviour and Fatherhood – Social Roles and cadre of resource personnel for non-governmental Responsibility Patterns in Trinidad and Tobago: LAP organisations concerned with public health. Efforts were Lambert Academic Publishing, Köln, Germany. also made to create an academic and clinical environ- (288 pages). ment for teaching students of the Health Sciences at • Gallimore, H. and Davies, R. Learning Outcomes for health-care facilities across the island. To this end, Early Childhood Development in the Caribbean: A accreditation exercises were carried out at the Mandev- Handbook for Practitioners. CCDC, UWI, Open ille and Spanish Town Hospitals while some infrastruc- Campus, Mona. tural development was supported at the Kingston Public • Professor Stewart Marshall, in collaboration with and Cornwall Regional Hospitals. The Department of Wal Taylor, edited four more issues of the on-line Basic Medical Sciences, through CARIGEN (Caribbean journal, Ijedict. Two issues (vol. 5, 4 and 5) were Genetics), positively impacted the crime fighting efforts special joint issues to commemorate Open Access of the respective Ministries and the Jamaica Constabu- Week (October 19–23, 2009), one was devoted to lary Force through provision of expertise in the area of eLearning in the Caribbean (guest edited by Dr forensic science. Diane Thurab-Nkhosi) and the other to eLearning in The nation’s public health programmes were boosted by Africa, in an attempt to foster academic exchange Faculty efforts at tracking epidemics and outbreak inves- between the two regions. tigation of infectious agents. Through the Department It should also be noted that the Principal of the Open of Microbiology, assisted by the Department of Basic Campus signed the Cape Town Declaration during Open Medical Sciences through CARIGEN, the Faculty sup- Access Week to mark the explicit and public commit- ported the Jamaican Ministry of Health in its effort to ment of the Open Campus to the principles of open control the H1N1 epidemic. Research on patterns of access. antibiotic resistance and the monitoring of the emer- 56 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 gence of resistant strains in hospitals helped to prevent Urology and a Fellowship in Renal Transplant at unnecessary hospital stays and investment in inappropri- Dalhousie University. He also holds an MBA from the ate antimicrobials. University of Miami. Dr Roberts brings a wealth of administrative experience having served as the Director The St Augustine Campus which is constantly seeking of Continuing Medical Education, Chief of the Depart- to engage the wider public and to share the knowledge ment of Surgery, President of the Medical Association of and learning that are generated on the campus in non- the Bahamas, Bahamas Family Planning Association and academic fora, during the year under review staged, Caribbean Urology. inter alia, the popular Mango Festival hosted by the Faculty of Science & Agriculture; the 2010 edition of the In the past year, research at SCMR received a boost with International Half Marathon, and what is now known as the appointment of a full-time lecturer in Epidemiology, “the Old Yard”. As part of the 2010 carnival celebra- Dr Anthony Frankson. Over 30 research projects were tions, the Department of Creative and Festival Arts submitted and approved by the International Research (DCFA) became the official custodian of Trinidad and Board (IRB) including a US$230,000 grant approval for Tobago’s carnival traditions, hosting what was once Viey eradication of keloids in a Phase 3 clinical trial. In 2010 la Cou. The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and seven papers were submitted and accepted by the Com- Economic Studies (SALISES) held five fora on topical monwealth Health Research Council, by comparison to subjects – stirring national debate on controversial only one submitted in 2008/2009. topics centred on the economy and politics in Trinidad In concert with these research endeavours, there has and Tobago. been a complete upgrade of all IT facilities, inclusive of wireless, network, hardware, software and broadband The School of Clinical Medicine and connectivity. With the IT improvements, The University Research, Bahamas library has partnered with the College of the Bahamas Dr Robin Roberts, Consultant Urologist and Senior Lec- and the Public Hospital’s library to form the Bahamas turer in Surgery, was appointed the new Director of the Health Science Library Consortium. As a result, students UWI School of Clinical Medicine and Research, The have access to a most impressive library database of the Bahamas. He succeeds Prof Howard Spencer who retired health sciences, which few can match in the Caribbean. in November 2010. Dr Roberts has been on the Faculty Building the Medical postgraduate program remains a of the two-year Medical undergraduate clinical and major objective; with 58 students registered, the Family postgraduate residency programmes in the Bahamas Medicine programme remains the flagship residency, since its inception in 1997. now with 19 students. SCMR is focussed on providing a Dr Roberts is a UWI graduate of the Faculty of Medicine, genre of well-trained physicians ready to do battle with Class of ’80. He completed his postgraduate training in Caribbean non-communicable diseases. ¶ 57 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 58 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Major Enablers • Transformation of the Administrative Culture and Processes • Effective Marketing and Branding of the Institution • Funding the Institution • Strengthening Regionality • Strengthening the National Engagement Process • Leveraging International Partnerships • Fostering and maintaining the commitment and involvement of Alumni 59 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Transforming the Leadership & Administrative Culture and Processes IT WAS ANTICIPATED THAT SUCCESSFUL implementation • To develop and distribute feedback forms in all of the Strategic Plan would, to a large degree, be service centres in order to establish an effective dependent on transformation and reform of the admin- monitoring and evaluation capability linked to the istrative structures and systems of the University. This service level statements. process was therefore seen as the first of the major • To reactivate the Banner User Group working in enablers aimed at facilitating and supporting the vision tandem with cross-campus teams to drive the and goals of the Plan. The University Registrar, Mr process of continuous improvement in all areas C William Iton, is the point person charged with over- relating to operational and service excellence. seeing implementation of this critical activity while Dr • To conduct leadership development workshops and Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Planning training sessions focussed on achievement of and Development, has overall responsibility for coordi- administrative and managerial transformation nating the preparation, implementation, monitoring and objectives. assessment of the Strategic Plan. • To introduce a performance-driven culture based on incentives, better talent fit for redesigned jobs and A mid-term review of the Strategic Plan undertaken in revised job descriptions focussed on outcomes. August 2010 identified the gaps that needed to be filled to accelerate the transformation process. These were: The campuses individually have undertaken specific measures to improve engagement and performance of • To introduce metrics in measuring staff perform- staff at all levels. The Mona Campus took the lead in ance and simplify the instrument used to carry out streamlining its operations and administrative processes regular appraisal of staff performance. with the automation of its course scheduling and class- • To create, in collaboration with Campus Registrars, room assignment processes. The new system, managed a Customer Service Charter for the key service centrally by the Student Records Unit, has substantially centres. reduced the need for multiple layers of administrative A mid-term review of the Strategic Plan undertaken in August 2010 identified the gaps that needed to be filled to accelerate the transformation process 60 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 input and the risk of scheduling conflicts, while facilitat- During the academic year 2009/2010 the software sys- ing the provision of timely, accurate course information tems used by the University were reviewed in order to to students and administrators. The system also enables ensure that the full potential of these enterprise systems the automatic generation of contracts for part time staff were being exploited and some headway was made in based on course load assignments, eliminating the need human resource development, in terms of strengthening for a manual process in the Human Resource Division. institutional capacity to sustain the strategic and opera- tional objectives. Training workshops were also organ- The Cave Hill Campus commenced a programme of ised in-house on the utilisation of office productivity training for all members of its Administrative, Technical software, report writing and performance appraisal. and Service (ATS) staff in service excellence. This Service Quality Programme was designed and implemented All campuses continued to afford its Academic, Senior with a phased, sustainable and results-oriented Administrative and Professional staff opportunities for approach, grounded in the UWI Strategic Aim of estab- self development, exposure to and benchmarking lishing “a people-centred culture change”. The major against best practice, through access to Staff Develop- elements included the principles of service excellence, ment and Study Travel grants, all with the objective of the definition of service standards, managing and super- enhancing quality, efficiency and productivity. vising the service function and people-development for Worthy of mention is the Wellness Programme launched managers. The training component was completed, fol- by the St Augustine Campus in August 2009. Spear- lowed by a maintenance phase, coordinated in a collab- headed by the Human Resources Division, this newest orative effort by the HR section of the Registry together component of the campus’ Employee Assistance Pro- with the Campus Quality Assurance Unit and executed gramme encourages staff to take responsibility for their through a Quality Circle, consisting of trained coaches health. The programme represents a collaborative effort drawn from each department, whose responsibility between the Sports and Physical Education Centre, the it was to ensure adherence to the agreed service Faculty of Medical Sciences, the Health Service Unit and standards. the Trinidad & Tobago Ministry of Health. Participants in the Information and Communications Technology Retreat, November 2009 at the Mona Campus. 61 Artist’s rendition of the Vice-Chancellery building, slated for completion in 2012 Optimising the use of Technology Some of the recommendations and activities arising from this analysis such as the Banner online application, In the prior academic year, a University-wide software were implemented during the review period. A similar enterprise systems review was undertaken by Sungard analysis of the Examinations processes commenced with (Banner) consultants involving an assessment of the completion slated for the 2010/2011 academic year. Banner Student and Finance systems. Recommendations Complementing the ExamSoft processes review, a face- arising from this exercise led to the development of an to-face meeting of the Examinations Registrars was held implementation plan which forms part of the CDB- to coordinate the review of all examinations regulations. funded Institutional Strengthening Project. Work also continued on the upgrade of the PeopleSoft The Chief Information Officer and her cross-campus ICT HR enterprise system, including preparations for imple- team, under the rubric ‘business processes improve- mentation of the e-Recruit module. The ICT team suc- ment’ completed an analysis of the Admissions process. cessfully completed implementation of the Maintenance 62 Management system at Mona, involving a contractor office equipment and building housing the University payroll facility with interface with Banner Finance which Archives. Fortunately, the records themselves were not has increased administrative efficiency and accountabil- damaged as the fire suppression system was successfully ity. An Accounting module has also been implemented activated. The Archives are now temporarily located at and a Parts Recovery capability designed – all with a 26 West Road on the Mona Campus. view to enable the Maintenance Department to manage their budgets effectively. The Vice-Chancellery Building University Archives The long-held proposal to construct a building to house all the disparate units of the Vice-Chancellery, including An Assistant Archivist was appointed in March 2010 in all the key research institutes and centres falling under an effort to strengthen the Archives programme. A fire the purview of the Vice-Chancellor, is finally coming to in June of that year caused extensive damage to the fruition with the assistance of a loan from the 63 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Caribbean Development Bank, as part of its support of There are a several other cross-campus initiatives being the Institutional Strengthening project. The Office of spearheaded by the University ICT Working Commit- Administration and the Centre Projects Office are over- tee. The Working Committee is lead by the University seeing implementation of the University-wide project. ICT Officer and comprises IT Directors/Campus CIOs and IT Managers who meet on a monthly basis to collabo- Single, Virtual University Space rate; monitor progress; share information and best across the UWI practices across the University. The University ICT team has continued work on a num- ber of projects relating to this mandate. These include: Planning & Development and Institutional Research • establishing an integrated learning management system using Moodle Networks which will allow The Office of Planning and Development (OPD) is faculty and students from one campus to seam- charged with the collection, analysis, interpretation and lessly participate in online courses offered by dissemination of accurate information on all aspects of another campus; the University’s activities in support of institutional The ICT Team: L-R: Mrs Brigitte Collins, University CIO; Mr Jeremy White, Mona CIO; Mr Nazir Karim, St Augustine CIO; Dr Philip Howard, Cave Hill CIO and Mr Vincent Chin, Open Campus software architect. • providing voice interconnectivity between the research and planning, informed decision-making and campuses by simply dialling an extension. This timely reporting through its online Performance capability is now extended across the four cam- Management and Monitoring System (UWIPMMS). puses following successful completion of a pilot Following is a sample of the research studies completed project in the prior year; during the period of review: • providing students and staff moving across the UWI Beyond Graduation – Report on Graduate Tracer seamless access to ICT resources by implementing Survey of 2008 First Degree Graduates of the an enterprise identity management solution Mona, Cave Hill and St Augustine Campuses and • establishing an integrated student portal; Comparative Reports • rationalising software applications being used by The objective of the Graduate Tracer Survey was to the four campuses with a view to effecting provide pertinent information on: economies of scale and cost savings; 64 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 a. Labour market signals discernible from the institution and year of enrolment in order to get a job-search experience of recent graduates; sense of the distribution of tertiary level students b. Identifiable indicators of the potential demand for across the sector. postgraduate education; 2009/2010 Student Experience Survey – Speak Your c. Indicators of the sectoral patterns of absorption Mind (SYM) of new graduates; The main objective of the Speak Your Mind was to d. Feedback on the impact of university education on understand how satisfied students were with their expe- the professional as well as personal development riences at UWI; to encourage feedback on what educa- of recent graduates. tional experiences have been beneficial or deficient and UWI Statistical Review 2008/09 – Mona, Cave Hill, on the basis of such information to devise ways and St Augustine and Open Campus means to serve them better. • The main objective of the UWI Statistical Review 2010 Employer Survey – St Augustine Campus was to provide quantitative measurements as well as graphic snapshots of student enrolment, output The objectives of the Employer Survey were to provide of graduates and staff resources within the Univer- pertinent information on some issues of strategic signifi- sity system. cance to the institution such as: 2009 Dimensions of Institutional Performance a. Acquire employer feedback on the graduate skills and attributes that the employers considered to be • The main objective of the Dimensions of Institu- the most important. tional Performance survey was to provide pertinent information on admissions trends and feeder b. Obtain employer feedback on the extent to institutions. which the UWI graduates demonstrated those important skills and attributes using a structured 2009 First Year Retention Survey questionnaire. • The main objective of the First Year Retention sur- c. Identify areas where the development of the UWI vey was to determine first year attrition rates and graduate attributes could be refined based on the factors that influence students’ decision not to findings of the survey. return to UWI for their second year of study. d. Build closer relationships and continued goodwill 2009/2010 Trinidad and Tobago Sector: Institutions between the UWI and key potential employers of and Enrolment UWI graduates. The objectives of this analysis were to provide pertinent information on some issues of strategic significance: UWI Performance Management and a. To determine UWI St Augustine’s profile in the Monitoring System Trinidad & Tobago’s national tertiary sector. The UWI Performance Management and Monitoring b. To obtain the names and addresses of ACTT accred- System (UWIPMMS) was rolled out in June 2010 after a ited institutions including the foreign-based ones series of testing by Microsoft. The OPD has been collab- c. To determine the number of GATE-assisted tertiary orating with Microsoft Trinidad since mid-2008 to institutions, their type and enrolment profile. develop a software application to track and monitor d. To ascertain the nature of classification of the insti- implementation of the University’s Strategic Plan. This tutions so that one can have a sense of how many paperless system is built on a Microsoft SharePoint plat- are tertiary or higher educational institutions. form and allows departments and units to access, sub- e. To obtain the latest student enrolment figures by mit and share their reports online. 65 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Heads of Departments and Faculty Deans are able to The University Projects Office view initiatives taken in other departments across the University and executive management will be able to August 2009 heralded changes in the structure and get an overall view of the University’s performance in modus operandi of the University Projects Office with a relation to the strategic objectives. Moreover, the avail- new mandate to prepare, develop and manage projects ability and accessibility of this information will better for the Offices of the Vice-Chancellery, in accordance inform the decision-making process at all levels. with the strategic priorities of the University. The Univer- sity Projects Office carried out the following activities Thirty-six representatives (12 from each residential cam- during the period under review: pus) received training on the system during the months of February and May 2010. These persons formed the Operational and Structural Adjustment. pool of trainers and support staff who would eventually be responsible for training other staff. The Office began the process of re-defining its activities and relationships within the Vice-Chancellery, with the The system at present may be accessed only by aca- key objective of institutionalising grantsmanship and demic departments; however, key performance indica- project management. Functional areas identified include tors (KPI) for administrative departments have been proposal and grant development to support the philan- defined and non-academic departments are expected to thropic thrust of the Vice-Chancellery, project manage- begin using the system by the end of the academic year. ment and implementation, and monitoring and The Open Campus is also expected to be fully evaluation. integrated in the system soon. Proposal and Grant Development Development Initiatives A mechanism and associated procedures for a Grants The OPD focussed during the review period on the Management process has been developed for the following: identification, assessment and response to emerging a. An IFC loan for US$12 million which was success- capital and research needs of the University. This fully negotiated but which the University in the end includes a decision-making matrix for proposal and decided to forego because of changed financial project analysis as well as procedures and forms for circumstances. grants management. b. Negotiation with the IADB to establish a Caribbean The University Enhancement project generated the need Competitiveness Centre (CCC) at the UWI. This was to develop a proposal to establish the UWI museum to successfully negotiated for a grant of US$728,000 be located in the new Vice-Chancellery building. and the Vice-Chancellor signed on behalf of the “Rooted in the Past; Reaching into the Future” will UWI. The CCC should be established in academic create a specifically designed space for displaying a year 2010/2011. range of exhibits that achieve wonder and resonance in c. A proposal to CARICOM for inclusion in the 10th depicting the story of the University of the West Indies’ EDF round of bids for the European Union. past development, and its continuing relevance as an d. Partnering with the OECS Secretariat, the World important regional institution. Bank, the Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO to organise a regional conference on the Project Management future of higher education in the OECS. The Office engaged in the management of three major projects, two of which have been completed, viz.: 66 The University Enhance- ment project generated the need to develop a proposal to establish the THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 UWI museum to be located in the new Vice-Chancellery building. “Rooted in the Past; Reaching into the Future” will create a specifically After having working drawings prepared by architect designed space for displaying a Bob Fowler & Associates, the important exercise of get- range of exhibits that achieve ting consensus and sign-off on the requirements of indi- wonder and resonance in depicting vidual units of the Vice-Chancellery that are to be the story of the University of the housed in the new building was carried out. Detailed West Indies’ past development, drawings were then prepared and submitted for plan- and its continuing relevance as an ning and building approvals that were granted in important regional institution. November, 2009. The CDB conducted a workshop for key stakeholders in The UWI Enhancement Project – February 2010, giving detailed information on the poli- Phase 1 cies, procedures and requirements for the use of funds for the loan and the grant. The areas addressed were Following an appraisal exercise carried out by the legal considerations, project execution and reporting Caribbean Development Bank, a loan of US$8.25M and requirements. a grant of US$500,000 were approved for this project by the Caribbean Development Bank on December 9, Phase 2 – implementation will be carried out during the 2009. The loan agreement, guaranteed by the govern- next reporting period. Actual project implementation ments of Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago, was was delayed, as the conditions precedent to disburse- signed on February 15th, 2010. UWI counterpart fund- ment of funds had to be met. These included the guar- ing is US$10.444m. The total project cost is US$19.194m. antees from the governments of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. The Jamaican government guarantee was The project will contribute to UWI’s stated long-term given in October 2009. However, some activities such as goal of propelling the economic, social, political and the preparation of expressions of interest for some areas cultural development of the West Indies by carrying out of the institutional strengthening component were the objectives of an enhanced capacity for strategic carried out. management of the UWI and an improved ability to respond to regional imperatives. The project is investing in the following areas: 1. Enhancing the productivity of the Vice-Chancellery Expansion of the UWIDEC Building for the by consolidating its various dispersed functions in a Open Campus modern, well-equipped Vice-Chancellery building. In continuing support for the Open Campus the Univer- 2. Institutional Strengthening in the following areas: sity Projects Office carried out activities to support the • Development and Implementation of a Strate- expansion and upgrade of the Open Campus Learning gic Human Resource Management Framework. Centre (formerly UWIDEC building) to include state of • Development and implementation of a Com- the art videoconferencing as well as facilities for the munication Strategy and Plan. various divisions of the Open Campus • Development and implementation of a Risk The University Projects Office also participated in the Management Enterprise Programme. development of the objects for the Rex Nettleford Foun- • Training of student and financial records man- dation. The Office continues to serve on University as agement systems personnel. well as Mona Campus Committees and to give advice • Development and implementation of a and assistance to the University community upon Research and Innovation Action Plan. request. The Office will continue to prepare, develop • Development and implementation of a Main- and manage projects for the University in support of tenance Policy for UWI and a Maintenance furtherance of UWI’s strategic plan. ¶ Plan for the Vice-Chancellery. 67 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Marketing and Branding RECOGNISED AS A MAJOR ENABLER in the strategic plan, • Projecting one unified UWI brand through consis- Marketing and Branding efforts continued to be tent messaging and imaging supported by effective focussed on positioning UWI as “an innovative, interna- marketing and communications policies, guidelines, tionally competitive, contemporary university deeply processes and procedures. rooted in the Caribbean, committed to creating the best possible future for all stakeholders.” Enhancing Awareness During the reporting period, the University-wide Mar- The cross-campus Marketing & Communications team keting & Communications team, comprising staff of continued to maintain and enhance public awareness of each campus with responsibility for marketing, commu- the University’s activities, achievements and contribution nications and public information centred its efforts on to social, cultural and economic development of some key strategic aims including: Caribbean societies through continuous improvements in quality and content of its campus newsletters, news- • Promoting UWI’s three-first positioning as: paper supplements and University Magazine – CHILL • The University of first choice for Caribbean News, Mona News, Open Letter, STAN News magazine, people; UWI Today, Gleaner Page, UWI Notebook and The • The institution that is first in developing new Pelican magazine. knowledge unique to the Caribbean and Small Island states, and In 2010, after seven issues, the University’s bi-annual • The first port of call for Caribbean govern- Pelican magazine conducted an online readership ments wishing advice and technical expertise. survey, with over 700 participants taking part in the • Enhancing UWI’s position as the premier higher assessment aimed at identifying readership and circula- education institution in the Caribbean region. tion trends and facilitating further enhancements to • Presenting UWI as an institution of international the publication, which already had three international eminence, yet deeply-rooted and relevant to awards for excellence under its belt. the Caribbean. On the matter of international awards, UWI continued • Facilitating continuous dialogue and outreach to receive international recognition for its publications with stakeholders. work. UWI Today, the monthly newspaper supplement The cross-campus Marketing & Communications team continued to enhance public awareness of the University’s activities, achievements and contribution to social, cultural and economic development 68 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 produced out of the St Augustine Campus won four tent which speaks positively of the successful cultivation APEX awards of publication excellence in the 2010 of relations between the two parties. competition. The supplement and its online presence During the review period, the University generated over also received honourable mention in the 2010 ACU PR, 90% positive or neutral news coverage as news articles Marketing & Communications Awards, with the judges’ in various media channels. While a small percent, 15% commendation for “having a university newspaper dis- was attributed to articles concerning university person- tributed free of charge through the country’s national nel (deaths and tributes) the majority were generated by newspaper, [which] provides a level of outreach that UWI-related activities. Also of interest is the significant most institutions could never hope to match.” jump in mentions for the same period between 2009 As a direct strategy to enhance UWI’s standing as an and 2010. The University realised an approximate 86% internationally recognised centre of excellence in overall increase in media coverage. Caribbean resources, Caribbean research and Caribbean Campus Marketing & Communication Offices continued Studies, an entire issue of The Pelican was devoted to to facilitate opportunities for staff contributions – as highlighting our unique Caribbean resources. This was expert authorities – on issues in the local, regional and produced in the period under review and distributed international media. Approximately 194* media inter- to over 6,000 current and potential partners and views and appearances were arranged by campus donors in the Caribbean-Latin America region as well as Marketing & Communications units on a range of topi- internationally. cal, professional or academic issues in the reporting year. The University Marketing & Communications UWI in the Mass Media group also continued to provide event management, Cross-campus collaborations among the Marketing & promotion support including pre-and post-event public- Communications offices and sharing of press releases ity for approximately 194* open lectures, public semi- and news had a notable impact on widening UWI’s nars, conferences, workshops, symposia and forums exposure in local, regional and international media in hosted across the UWI campuses and Open Campus the period under review. Especially noteworthy is the centres in the last reporting cycle. A direct correlation media’s desire to publish UWI-generated news and con- can be made between the above-mentioned media The UWI: www.uwi.edu Pelican www.uwi.edu/pelican CHILL Magazine http://cavehill.uwi.edu/chill to MONA News www.mona.uwi.edu/publications/monanewsHow STAN http://sta.uwi.edu/stan d Us OPEN Letter www.open.uwi.eduFin ine UWI Today http://sta.uwi.edu/uwitodayOnl UWI Connect www.alumnionline.uwi.eduFlickr www.flickr.com search: UWI St Augustine Youtube www.youtube.com search: UWI St Augustine 69 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 relations activities by the respective Marketing & Com- munications units in the provision of content to the media and the positive media opportunities recorded in the period under review. (*The figures given are not repre- sentative of the Cave Hill cam- pus as data from this campus was not available. These figures also exclude appearances and interviews as part of UWI-spon- sored radio UWI’s presence on networks such as Facebook and and TV pro- Twitter has helped the University to create an unparal- grammes in leled level of brand engagement. In the review period, territories such as Dominica (TV programme), Jamaica UWI STA’s Facebook and Twitter accounts which are (UWI in Action radio programme), Trinidad & Tobago directly managed by the campus’ Marketing & Commu- (UWI on Stage radio programme). nications Office continued to grow at a rapid pace, Projection of UWI’s brand and capacities locally, region- building brand ambassadors out of key constituent ally and internationally was further bolstered in the groups including current students, potential students, review year with the strategic placement of paid adver- alumni and employees and attracting a robust following tisements and advertorials in three international which currently spans an impressive geographical space Commonwealth publications promoting UWI as a – Caribbean, US, Canada, UK, Venezuela, Colombia, centre of excellence, and the updating of UWI entries France, Netherlands, Botswana. To date, UWI STA’s Face- in several international databases – including the book page has a following of 29,000, while its Twitter Commonwealth Universities Yearbook and Europa account has 781 followers. UWI STA’s social media World of Learning. presence has also provided the added benefit of unprecedented, real time access to these audiences for Online engagement feedback on key issues. Resources continue to be invested into the development Meanwhile, the St Augustine Campus YouTube and of a strong, unified web presence for UWI and a user Flickr accounts have also been utilised to improve the experience that aptly represents and matches the UWI versatility and quality of content that is disseminated to brand with key emphasis placed on improving the user the media, which thanks to these tools now include experience and online engagement. images and video clips of special promotional videos, lectures and special events. The UWI St Augustine’s The establishment and maintenance of a vibrant UWI YouTube channel currently has over 100 video uploads, presence on social media outlets – a pilot project of the while the Flickr account maintains hundreds of image St Augustine Marketing & Communications Office – uploads. provides a much needed platform for the institution’s branding and engagement in today’s digital world. There has been a subsequent explosion of UWI’s online 70 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 content, part of which has been facilitated by the repur- mix of international and regional Marketing Consultants posing of material and content from UWI publications, and in-house talent. These research findings continue to press releases and notices, for the web and social net- be key points of reference which inform the Marketing working sites, thus further increasing the University’s & Communications function on various levels. exposure among national, regional, international audiences and in the media. Building capacity for effective marketing UWI as the university of first choice The University Marketing & Communications group sus- Findings from the Student Experience survey conducted tained its efforts to improve consultation, communica- by the Office of Planning and Development in 2009 tion and interaction among its members through regular indicated the 86% of respondents ranked UWI their first meetings using video conference and email technology. choice institution. University Marketing & Communica- In the year under review, the group also saw the formal tions continued to support recruitment initiatives establishment of the Mona Marketing & Communica- through the development of targeted recruitment cam- tions Office to perform a wider remit of duties than the paigns and material which reinforced UWI’s position as predecessor – The PR office – and the recruitment of a the premier university in the region. It also continued to Marketing & Communications Consultant for that support the University’s thrust to attracting the best and campus. brightest students in the region, through the develop- There were tremendous advancements in the area of ment of a range of communications to support vigorous marketing and communications policies during the promotion of scholarships including Open Scholarships period under review, with several draft policy papers and Regional Endowment Fund scholarship awards. Dur- and guidelines being developed to help effectively man- ing the period under review, the UWI Open Scholarships age the University’s image and identity, limited assets experienced a marked increase in applications. Approxi- and resources – personnel and financial. Policy docu- mately 900 applicants from across UWI’s 15 Caribbean ments that are scheduled for presentation to University member countries applied and 41 Open scholarships Council in the next reporting period will include – UWI worth US $1.1 million to regional students were brand guidelines, advertising, and social media policies. awarded in the reporting period. A total of 19 scholar- ships of a combined value of US $150,000 were also awarded to regional students from the Regional Conclusion Endowment Fund in the review year. In 2009/2010 the University Marketing & Communica- tions team’s decision to target specific areas for aggres- Supporting institutional research sive marketing and improvement have resulted in In a strategic bid to facilitate institutional research, the notable measures of enhanced stakeholder’s awareness University Marketing & Communications team provided of UWI’s impact on the region; endorsement of Univer- support to the Office of Planning and Development in sity Expertise; revamping of the methods of online the promotion of institutional research surveys including engagement and improved online presence; the further its 2009/10 instalments of the Undergraduate Student cementing of UWI’s positioning as the first choice insti- Experience Survey and Postgraduate Experience survey. tution in the region; the highlighting of Institutional The team, on its own, also conducted several forms of Research and the increased capacity for effective environmental scanning and market research. Signifi- Marketing. Moving into 2010/2011, the team will cant institutional research – both quantitative and quali- continue to build on this sturdy foundation towards tative – was conducted for the Open Campus, Mona continuous enhancements in Marketing and Branding Campus and St Augustine Campus respectively using a at the UWI. ¶ 71 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Funding the Enterprise THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, like many other and intensify existing ones. All Faculties, Departments largely Government-funded institutions, has found it and the Administration were required to cut their oper- necessary to review the modalities of its funding so that ating budget by 15 percent and enhance efficiencies. there would be greater predictability in its financing. Other measures such as the freezing of existing vacan- This would mean broadening the funding base and cies, deferral of all but the most critical maintenance reducing dependence on any one source. activities; reduction of overtime work to the minimum and effecting economies in energy use, were taken. The global financial crisis has heightened the urgency of achieving stability. Over the past few years a major focus Contributing governments continued to experience dif- has been maintaining dialogue with Governments to ficulty in meeting their commitments to the Open Cam- encourage payment of their assessed contribution on a pus during 2009/2010. Outstanding contributions at consistent basis. It would be fair to assert that in the year end had increased to BDS$29m. As a consequence 2009/2010 academic year for the first time all four cam- the Open Campus remained indebted to the other cam- puses were faced with cash flow challenges and with puses and the Vice-Chancellery for funds advanced to the anticipated cuts in Government subventions signifi- meet its day-to-day operations. The net sum owed at cant expenditure containment had to be undertaken July 31 was BDS$20m. The expected contributions for while preserving quality in the delivery of programmes the 2009/2010 financial year were BDS$27m against a and services. budget of BDS$31.5m. The Cave Hill Campus had to revise planned activities At year-end the estimated shortfall on the defined bene- in line with a cut in its budget of BDS$19.83 million or fit pension plan for eligible FSSU staff members was 10.9 per cent. In addition, the campus was faced with BDS$6.6m. Of this sum BDS$4.5m represented past the complications presented by the shortfall caused by service costs including BDS$1.2 m allocated for pension- arrears in payments by Governments amounting to ers who had retired even before the formation of the some BDS$72.00 million. In order to cope under these Open Campus. This sum is represented as a liability on conditions, a Strategic Group was constituted, whose the Open Campus balance sheet in accordance with remit was to seek out new income-generating strategies International Accounting Standard 19. Over the past few years a major focus has been maintaining dialogue with Governments to encourage payment of their assessed contribution on a consistent basis 72 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 The Open Campus pursued proposals (with limited suc- comprehensive review of faculty workload allocations to cess) for special funding from other sources such as the ensure that fulltime faculty were carrying full teaching Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), loads, before units were allowed to engage part-time the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) staff. and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Other cost reduction measures undertaken included Trade (DFAIT) of Canada. Nevertheless there were some partnering with the Heart Trust/NTA to train mainte- positive developments during the year: plans to relocate nance personnel to improve workmanship, thereby units of the Open Campus from the sister campuses to reducing the need for rework; employing students as sites in the UWI-12 countries received a boost with courtesy officers to reduce the number of fulltime pri- pledges of donation of real property from the govern- vate security personnel contracted; installing shutters, ments of Grenada, St Lucia and The Bahamas. repairing roofs and establishing a proper drainage A primary focus of the Mona Campus during system to reduce potential damage from natural disas- 2009/2010 was on reducing cost by improving effi- ters, thereby lowering insurance cost; and introducing ciency to help address the immediate funding chal- more efficient energy systems to reduce electricity lenges. The measures included eliminating the practice consumption. of ‘leave buy-back’; restricting the ‘accumulation of The Mona Campus also continued its push to increase leave’; reassigning duties of persons on leave within the revenue generation in 2009/2010, expanding the slate respective units, instead of hiring replacements; and of commercial entities operating on the campus, with reducing, and where possible, eliminating overtime the addition of the Jamaica National Building Society. payments. It also focussed greater attention internally on units with The campus also embarked on a process aimed at income-generating potential, such as CARIGEN optimising its use of faculty resources, conducting a and Microbiology, expanding their mandates, and User groups from across the University participate in a Banner Workflow Training Workshop entitled ‘Process Modeling’ held at the Mona Library on March 16–18, 2010. 73 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Participants take time to smile for the cameras after the opening session of the ‘Process Modeling’ SCT Banner Workflow Training Session at the Mona Library. commencing preparation of a new and improved home uct that is attracting both local and international for the latter. business interests. This product has helped to posi- tion the UWI as an innovative and technology-dri- Further, a comprehensive review of self-financing pro- ven institution and has been attracting significant grammes was started to establish their viability and contracts from both the public and private sectors. exploit growth potential. To this end, the campus com- • Expansion of the suite of services that CARIGEN, menced construction of two new complexes to house the innovative DNA-testing facility, offers to an expanded Faculty of Law and Department of Basic Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. The company Medical Sciences. Other income-generating initiatives now offers two new tests: DNA-based pre-natal included: screening, to test for genetic disorders in the • Collaboration with external partners in developing unborn child, and DNA-based testing for three of programmes and physical infrastructure that will the most common sexually transmitted diseases, attract more local and international students. Of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Chlamydia and note are a Confucius Centre funded from sources Gonorrhoea. CARIGEN also has plans to offer soon in China, and collaboration with the International additional diagnostic tests for sexually transmitted Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and diseases. Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) to convert the • Increasing income from consultancies offered by Mona Bowl into a Regional Centre of Excellence for professional institutes such as the Mona Institute Sports, inclusive of a football training academy and of Medical Sciences (MIMS) and Mona Institute of professional track and field facilities. Applied Sciences (MIAS). MIMS was expanded and • Launch through the Mona GeoInformatics Institute a new consultancy unit introduced at the Mona (MonaGIS), of JAMNAV, of a road navigation prod- School of Business (MSB). 74 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 • Development of weekend programmes in the Fac- conserve available funds. The impact of the response ulty of Social Science (FSS). Offered on Saturdays was seen in lower overall expenditure compared to last and Sundays, the degrees and short courses are year. With regard to the decline in Departmental expen- intended to enhance professional skills. This project diture, this was caused by lower staff costs as a result of is being carried out on a self-funded basis and restrictions imposed on the hiring of part-time staff and complements the various other self-funded pro- use of overtime. Increases in other areas were marginal grammes already operating on the campus. except under ‘other costs’ where there was a significant At the St Augustine Campus, despite having to grap- increase of 21% resulting from increasing pension costs ple with cash-flow problems, overall, income increased for Academic and Senior Administrative Staff. by 13%, thanks to increases of over 30% in income generated under Special Project Funds and Other Regional Insurance Income, driven by increased income from common serv- The regionalisation across the University of property ice fees (i.e. fees charged to self-financing activities) and insurance in 2009 achieved the objective of premium transfers into the General Reserves. These two areas savings through economies of scale by bringing all the made a greater contribution to overall income and while risk under one cover; and the changing of the insurance funding from Government contributions and tuition and programme from ‘Full Value’ to ‘First Loss’, as recom- student fees continued to be significant and showed mended by consultants, while maintaining adequate increases in real terms, their contribution declined by insurance cover. 4% and 2% respectively. There was also a 5% decline in earnings from commercial operations due to a fall in The Mona GeoInfomatics Institute evaluated the ade- income from the Bookstore and the Halls of Residence. quacy of the First Loss insurance cover by modelling the probability of loss and recommended that a First Loss On the expenditure side the campus has succeeded in limit of US$100M for hurricane and US$150M for reigning in costs and registered an almost 2% decline earthquake would be adequate to cover the maximum overall. Departmental, administrative and central spend- probable combined losses across the campuses. ing were all reduced by 8%, 1% and 6% respectively. The general decline in spending was the result of the The implementation of the regional insurance cover has uncertainty regarding cash flows during the year. A plea accumulated total savings over two years of US$1.2 mil- went out from the Campus Principal to all Heads of lion, inclusive of US$416 thousands or 14% reduction Department asking for assistance in cutting costs to for 2010/11. Premiums were invoiced and paid locally. Special Projects staff drawn from the campus Bursaries and the Office of Finance participate in a Workshop sponsored by US AID on Rules and Regulations. 75 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 UWI Consulting A SUBSIDIARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES Background services of the University. On the other hand, the Univer- sity is also motivated by the need for income diversifica- While the UWI has made a tremendous contribution to tion in a bid to funnel international and private funds to the development of the region and beyond, not only by the University, thereby supplementing the contributions way of academic delivery, but also by the provision of obtained through government funding. expert services on a pro bono or fee basis, until now, however, this service has been offered on an ad hoc The Goals basis by individuals and units across UWI. The main goals of UWI Consulting though unchanged, Over the last three years, the UWI has taken measures have been refocused. They still aim at satisfying the to offset the decline in funding being experienced by a needs of the region, the regional governments, and the great number of publicly funded universities globally, as University. These goals include: well as the exacerbation of the existing situation by the increased competition from extra-regional institutions. Consulting Through the UWI Consulting Inc, the UWI has begun to make significant inroads in exploiting the multiplicity To promote UWI Consulting as the Caribbean’s primary of options through which it continues to contribute to, provider of professional services to governments and and transform the region while at the same time gener- international organisations, private sector and non- ating revenue to offset the funding shortfalls. government organisations, to address sustainable development, and to inform policies, as well as issues and business improvement needs in the Caribbean; The Company To develop opportunities for consulting assignments for UWI Consulting is a Limited Liability Company (LLC), a UWI expertise, and to contribute to the development of wholly-owned subsidiary of the UWI that was registered a philosophy and practice within the University system as an International Business Corporation (IBC) in Octo- for delivering consulting services on a commercial basis, ber 2007. It provides professional advisory services inter- in order to achieve revenue targets and client satisfac- nationally, and to the region, particularly to Antigua and tion, and to enhance the profile and value of the UWI to Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, the countries in the region, as well as the image of the Grenada, The Bahamas, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent UWI internationally. and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos, Cayman and Suriname. Creating the Iceberg Effect The Mission of UWI Consulting is to “unlock the devel- The vision of the the Iceberg Effect is that a simple opment potential of the Caribbean through professional pre-implementation project, which when satisfactorily advisory services and capacity building”. The company executed by UWI Consulting on behalf of an interna- was established in response to the expressed needs of tional funding agency, may be següed into full imple- Caribbean government leaders, who wished to have mentation of a multi-million dollar project with the UWI a single portal through which to gain access to the as the regional Executing Agency. 76 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Technology Transfer Research Associate, and Ms Kerryann Hodges, the proj- ects assistant. As CEO, Dr Burke reports to a Board of • To evaluate UWI’s emerging technologies with the Directors of which the Vice-Chancellor, Professor E. intention of assessing their commercial importance Nigel Harris, is the Chairman. and capabilities. • To develop or license such technologies; to provide In its brief time together, this A-Team of dedicated per- innovative and financed entrepreneurs with tech- sonnel has gained the reputation of being very nimble nology for the creation of new secondary indus- and very highly responsive. Challenges become daily tries, primarily in the Caribbean. stimulating events that bring satisfaction, both to the • To raise revenues and added-value evaluation from Team and its clients. these spin-outs for the benefit of UWI and the As indicated in an earlier Vice-Chancellor’s Report, the region. Company, while continuing its quest to harness the The Structure intellectual capital of the academics (faculty and staff of the University, its units, centres, institutes, and alumni), UWI Consulting is wholly owned by the University of the as well as alumni and the Diaspora – all to the benefit of West Indies. This single portal through which govern- the Caribbean region – is striving toward a more ments and international agencies gain access to the growth-oriented model, based on Isis Innovation which consulting services of the UWI is manned by a full time is a wholly-owned company of Oxford University. team of five – Dr Basil A. Burke, its Chief Executive Offi- The consulting arm of Isis Innovation, called Oxford Uni- cer (CEO), Ms Cynthia Humes and Ms Claudia Hunter, versity Consulting, is similar to UWI Consulting in that it the Business Development/Project Management Special- also leverages the knowledge and expertise of the ists, Ms Vinessa Henry, the Senior Administrative and In its brief time together, this A-Team of dedicated personnel has gained the reputation of being very nimble and very highly responsive. 77 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 academics for the benefit of its clients. On the other • Agriculture and Marine Resources side of the coin, clients and sponsors are being provided • Alternative Energy with the best minds and resources in the region to pro- • Capacity Building, Organisation Restructuring and vide solutions to their problems. On a more global scale, Change Management UWI Consulting is now bringing “home” opportunities • Conservation of Environmental and Biodiversity that were previously handled by the large multi-national Resources consulting companies which would sub-contract to the • Crime Prevention same regional individuals, units, centres and institutes • Disaster Management of the UWI, with limited remuneration and even less • Education and Social Policy recognition. • Labour Relations and Employment The UWI Consulting has weathered the global economic • Medicine and Health Policy down-turn of the past two years and has emerged • Policy Formulation and Governance smarter and stronger in its approach to its clients. It is • Poverty Alleviation anticipated that Caribbean governments will begin • Programme Management and Implementation to see the wisdom of outsourcing consulting services to • Project Evaluation UWI Consulting. • Tourism and Sustainable Development In addition to its consulting efforts, UWI Consulting con- tinues to transition into a technology transfer mode, as Highlights of Accomplishments well as to encourage social entrepreneurship. The tech- nology transfer mode is intended to enable researchers • UWI Consulting played a seminal role in satisfacto- to commercialise intellectual property arising from their rily executing a small pre-implementation project research, patenting, and licensing, as well as to create for UNEP and segueing that success into having the spin-off companies, and in this way, to contribute to the University of the West Indies designated as the innovation, diversification and productivity that are nec- Lead Executive Agency for implementation of a essary to raise the level of our global competitiveness. multi-million US dollar related programme for the Caribbean region, under the auspices of the Global Environmental Facilities. Specialisation • A very successful visit and presentation of the CEO Based on discussions with potential clients and a survey of UWI Consulting to CARICOM. Dr Burke was of advertised competitive tenders for consulting oppor- accompanied by PVC Research Wayne Hunte and tunities, the Company has begun to focus on develop- Ms Allison Fung of the Vice-Chancellor’s Office. The ing its consulting portfolio of assignments with the University of Guyana and Ministries in the Govern- international and regional organisations that finance the ment of Guyana were also visited. The dialogue governments of the region and with the governments from the CARICOM meeting created a better themselves particularly in: understanding of the CARICOM processes and personnel. • Policy Formulation • In an effort to win an attractive education consul- • Programme Management and Implementation tancy tendered by the Government of Antigua and • Project Evaluation Barbuda, UWI Consulting strategically formed a • Capacity Building, Organisation Restructuring and Consortium with Profiles Antigua Inc of St Johns, Change Management Antigua and submitted a joint proposal. The effort The areas where the greatest demand for the Univer- was successful and the Consortium is now execut- sity’s expertise lies are being revisited. These include: ing on the project. 78 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 • UWI Consulting is currently managing about 10 Current and Future Environment projects, and the over 500 registered ‘Affiliates’ continue to rise. These Affiliates are mainly staff The Phoenix-like re-emergence of UWI Consulting from and faculty members with the expertise, desire and the economic down-turn of 2008 is a very strong valida- willingness to serve as consultants on UWI Consult- tion for the existence of the consulting Company and ing’s projects. UWI Consulting appoints a Project demonstrates the resilience of the Company despite the Manager for each project to ensure that project impact of the global economic challenges on the region. management procedures are in place, client The growing number of governments being served by communication is maintained, and budgets/time- the Company is a testimony to the satisfactory services lines/quality and work-plan targets are met. provided to its clients and the tremendous outreach efforts to the right parties. While willing to explore and • UWI Consulting has improved its hit ratio to well evaluate all opportunities, the Company is directed by above 50 percent on submitted proposals. its CEO along a path of “controlled” growth – providing • The list of UWIC’s clients continues to expand. New a high quality product, not just another report for the The greatest challenge for UWI Consulting still lies within the UWI family. It is to convince potential ‘Affiliates’ of the enormous benefit of working in a multidisciplinary and inter- disciplinary manner for the benefit of UWI and the region. “shelf”, but one that has recommendations for imple- partnerships with clients include the CARICOM Sec- mentation, and one that can be implemented. The retariat through EU funding, UNICEF (regional) and Company may indeed limit its outreach to new clients if UNICEF (Barbados), the Government of Antigua capacity and quality would be compromised. and Barbuda, the Government of Jamaica, the Association of Caribbean Tertiary Institutions. Over the past year, the status of the consulting industry • UWI Consulting continues to develop strong work- and the related actions by the governments of the ing relationships with individual faculty members, Caribbean have not significantly changed. Yet, there as well as the units, centres, and institutes of the seems to be an emerging need for outsourcing – in UWI, such as SALISES, Mona; the Institute of Edu- search of quality outcomes. This presents to UWI cation, Mona; The Social Work Unit in the Faculty Consulting with opportunities to impact the region and of Social Science, Mona; The Business Development move closer towards its dream of being the region’s best Office, St Augustine; The Special Education Unit, Consulting Company. Cave Hill; The Biochemistry Department, Mona; The greatest challenge for UWI Consulting still lies and The Open Campus. within the UWI family. It is to convince potential ‘Affili- • The staff of UWI Consulting has worked with ates’ of the enormous benefit of working in a multidisci- procedures from EU, CARICOM, CDB and various plinary and interdisciplinary manner for the benefit of governments to gain familiarity with the formats, the UWI and the region. Some headway is being made, nuances, and the requirements of working with and colleagues in the Vice-Chancellery, the Bursary, and these agencies. the leadership of each of the four campuses have been • Responsiveness, nimbleness, and creativity have very supportive. For this support, the Team at UWI become the hallmark of UWI Consulting. Consulting is extremely grateful. ¶ 79 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Strengthening Regionality THE UWI IS EXTREMELY CONSCIOUS and committed to the various Heads of Department. During the review its regional remit. Yet, in formulating the Strategic Plan period some programmes, such as Speech Language it was considered necessary to further enhance the Pathology, were offered as a collaborative effort via responsiveness and the impact of The University of the video conferencing. West Indies on regional development through effective dissemination of outputs and expanded communication The second biennial Faculty of Social Sciences Cross- links with external stakeholders. Campus Conference was held in January 2010 at Cave Hill under the theme: “The Strategic Plan and the Social Cross-Campus Faculty Collaboration Sciences at the midpoint: are we halfway there?”. The conference facilitated discussions among disciplinary The Faculties of Medical Sciences established a best and Strategic Plan theme groups with a view to enhanc- practice in cross-campus collaboration with institution- ing cooperation between campuses and dealt with alised mechanisms for ensuring curriculum harmonisa- issues related to curriculum reform and the harmonisa- tion and examinations processes. The Faculties of Social tion of regulations across campuses. Representatives of Sciences followed suit and established an annual cross- the Open Campus also participated in the Conference campus conference of their own, prompted by the and since then a schedule of meetings has been estab- process of formulating the UWI 2007–2012 Strategic lished between the Open Campus and the Social Plan. The three Social Science Deans agreed to cooper- Sciences Deans. The Deans continue to meet regularly ate in fostering cross campus collaboration in keeping to advance the regional agenda established at the with the Plan’s objective of strengthening regionalism. biennial conference. With the expansion of and extension to other campuses of the professional Faculties such as the Faculty of Law Benefits from the strengthening of regionalism that has and the Faculty of Engineering, this is a practice that will emerged from the cross campus conferences has been become the norm for all Faculties. Indeed, a collabora- most clearly manifest in cooperation developed in the tive and collegial engagement has emerged among the fields of Criminology, Economics, Public Sector Manage- Faculties of Humanities and Education with the sharing ment and Tourism. In these areas, conferences have of ideas and approaches at the level of the Deans and been held, colleagues have been assisting in program- In formulating the Strategic Plan it was considered necessary to further enhance the responsiveness and the impact of The University of the West Indies on regional development 80 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 matic development on other campuses and there has been a greater sharing of expertise in cross campus teaching and supervision. Now that the cross campus links have been more firmly established, it is expected that there will be acceleration with respect to inter- campus cooperation during the rest of the Plan period and that more disciplines will reap the benefits. Cooperation with respect to each of the Plan themes is also expected to grow as the Faculties draw closer together. Greater integration of Caribbean students Surveys have consistently shown that students and Students at St Augustine, participants in the “I Love UWI Life” campaign alumni alike have been attracted to the UWI in large part because of the opportunities to be part of a comprising just under 8% of on-campus enrolment, the regional melting pot and to experience the cultures of UWI has redoubled efforts to offer opportunities to the region first-hand. However, since the opportunities students to pursue at least a part of their studies at a for such cultural cross-fertilisation have decreased over campus other than in their home territory. the years, with regional and international students Each campus has an International Office tasked with strengthening collaborative links with the other cam- puses and with universities around the world. At the same time, current students may take advantage of the links established with tertiary and other organisations across the region. The decline in funding coupled with the strained financial circumstances affecting many stu- dents and their families is preventing many from partici- pating in the programmes available. Below are some examples of initiatives undertaken in 2009/2010: The First Year Experience Programme The First Year Experience Programme allows first year students from any campus to visit any other campus for one week. This is in keeping with the founding princi- ples of the UWI that the best way to build a Caribbean identity and break through territorial insularity is through having students live and work together. The Mona Campus facilitated the visit of some 100 first year students to the Cave Hill and St Augustine Cam- puses, to help them have a better appreciation of the UWI system, while developing a greater understanding Recipients of the Cave Hill Principal’s special scholarship for of the peoples and cultures of both countries. indigenous Caribbean peoples 81 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 The Caribbean Integration Programme Haiti The Campus Principals have been actively encouraging The response by The University of the West Indies to the and facilitating students’ participation in inter-campus devastating earthquake suffered by Haiti on January 12, exchanges, which allow students to pursue one to two 2010 was swift, comprehensive and well coordinated. A semesters of their studies at another campus of their cross-campus, interdisciplinary team including medical choosing. personnel and language experts to train relief workers and security forces in Haitian Creole to enhance their UWI Regional Scholarship Programme effectiveness, was quickly assembled by the Pro Vice- The Office of the Board for Undergraduate Studies Chancellor, Research in collaboration with the developed and implemented a new process for selecting Caribbean Disaster and Emergency Management UWI Open scholars making the process more closely Agency (CDEMA) as part of a Caribbean early response aligned to Faculty-based assessments of student per- team assisting with the recovery efforts. The Vice-Chan- formance. Forty scholarships were awarded in the cellor also launched a University-wide appeal for cash review year. and kind contributions from the University community to be sent to Haiti. In addition, a total of 92 final year Regionality Task Force university students from Haiti were accepted into the UWI to complete their programmes of study. The Cave In response to reports over the years of the increasing loss of regionalism within the UWI and following on a plea made by the Student Guild Presidents at the 2010 University Council meeting, a Task Force on Enhancing the Regional Character of the UWI was convened, under the chairmanship of Professor Brian Meeks, Direc- tor of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute on Economic and Social Studies at Mona. The Task Force, whose member- ship includes representatives from all the campuses, has held consultations with a wide cross-section of the University community, to identify “the gaps that exist between the ideal and what exists . . . and propose measures that need to be taken by the University to bridge those gaps”. Task Force on enhancing UWI-12 enrolment Another working group, chaired by Professor Rhoda Reddock, Deputy Principal of the St Augustine Campus, was convened to consider and recommend measures to boost and encourage greater enrolment by students from the OECS countries. Measures included niche programming to meet the specific need of the UWI-12 countries; special marketing and recruitment efforts; financial assistance such as increased bursaries and scholarships and articulation arrangements with tertiary level institutions in the UWI-12 countries. Final Year Haitian Students meet with Principal Clem Sankat at the St Augustine Campus 82 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Scenes from rehabilitation activities undertaken by University Archivist, John Aarons and team from Mona, at the National Archives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Hill Campus accommodated one, the Mona Campus welcomed 27 and 71 Haitian students completed their studies in Engineering, Science & Agriculture, Dentistry, Management Studies and Veterinary Science at St Augustine. Longer term assistance to the tertiary sector in Haiti is being coordinated by the Latin American- Caribbean Centre under the auspices of UNICA. ¶ Principal Gordon Shirley meets some of the Haitian students accommodated at Mona. 83 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Strengthening National Engagement Processes ANOTHER MAJOR ENABLER RELATES to the UWI’s impact ture Policy”, examining options for easing the pub- on national policy-making, analysis and evaluation and lic debt constraint and developing the capacity to speaks to the need to also increase awareness of the relax monetary policy towards facilitating strong UWI’s contributions to national development, thereby sustained economic growth; “The Debt Problem enhancing support for the University within national and IMF Engagement”, looking at the implications communities. of chronic public debt and the role of an IMF agree- ment as a way out; and “Effective Macroeconomic Guided by national imperatives, the Mona Campus Policy Coordination for Sustained Growth”. increased its focus on initiatives aimed at informing • Launch of the National Integrity Action Forum, national policy development. During 2009/2010 the creating an information and support network for campus hosted a number of policy forums on key gover- the main anti-corruption agencies of the state; nance and economic issues, including the: • Launch of the MSB Roundtable 2010 Forum, facili- • Breakfast Symposia Series: Creating a Policy Frame- tating dialogue to assist public and private sector work for the Micro Small and Medium-Size Enter- organisations in managing risks for growth and prises Sector in May/June 2010, which examined development. among other things the key challenges of finance Other initiatives included signing of an MOU with the and tax administration currently facing the MSME Water Resources Authority (WRA) to improve the knowl- sector, and made recommendations for creating a edge of water resources in Jamaica and enhance the policy framework for a viable sector; staff and institutional capacity in the water and educa- • Economic Policy Forum: Economic Challenges and tion sectors; and completion of the UWI/Usain Bolt Track Opportunities for the Nation symposia series in at the Mona Bowl in furtherance of Mona’s aim of pro- September/October 2009, which dissected topics viding world class sports facilities, benefitting from the such as, the “Public Sector Revenue and Expendi- full range of complementary services and continuous The UWI’s impact on national policy-making, analysis and evaluation speaks to the need to also increase awareness of the UWI’s contributions to national development 84 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 research available on the campus, in support of national will begin in 2011. It is also noteworthy that the School and regional sports development. of Education, in a collaborative sponsorship with the Ministry of Education in Antigua and Barbuda launched These initiatives were complemented by the ongoing the first Educators’ Summer Leadership Institute (ESLI) in research by academic staff in key areas of national July 2010. This Institute parallels the Principal Leadership importance, as well as continued provision of technical Institutes which are offered to educational leaders at expertise and leadership/governance services to various such prestigious universities as Harvard University. It is public and private sector bodies, through Faculty out- expected that the Summer Institute program will be reach activities. For example, the Faculty of Medical Sci- expanded in an attempt to channel more of the region’s ences provided assistance to rural hospitals throughout educators into the post-graduate programmes of the Jamaica in preventive and curative medicine. Staff School. offered consultation services at several health care facili- ties and formed a cadre of resource personnel for NGOs The Renewable Energy Group (SOLPROM) in the concerned with public health. The nation’s public health Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences began work to programmes were boosted by Faculty efforts at tracking promote renewable energy use on the Cave Hill Cam- epidemics and outbreak investigation of infectious pus. The main objective of this initiative was to use the agents. Through the Department of Microbiology, campus as a demonstration site for renewable energy in assisted by the Department of Basic Medical Sciences Barbados and the Caribbean. An energy audit of the and the CARIGEN, the Faculty supported the Jamaican campus was done and the recommended conversion to Ministry of Health in its effort to control the H1N1 epi- high efficiency lighting has commenced. demic. Research on patterns of antibiotic resistance and The Business Development Office secured a contract the monitoring of the emergence of resistant strains in valued at BDS $58,000 for a team of researchers from hospitals helped to prevent unnecessary hospital stays the Department of Management Studies, led by Dr and investment in inappropriate antimicrobials. The Sherma Roberts, to undertake a review of the Barbados Department of Basic Medical Sciences through CARI- Home Accommodation Product on behalf of the Min- GEN positively impacted the crime-fighting efforts of the istry of Tourism. Under the contract researchers under- respective Ministries and the Jamaica Constabulary took an assessment of the performance of the Force through provision of expertise in the area of accommodation subsector. The draft Final Report was forensic science. delivered on April 16, 2010 and the Final Report will be delivered on January 10, 2011. Preliminary discussions were held on the formation of a Caribbean Renal Registry, vital for the provision of data The School of Advanced Nursing Education at the for policy formulation on renal and other non-communi- St Augustine Campus conducted summer pro- cable diseases that lead to kidney failure. grammes in Trinidad and Tobago. The Tobago House of Assembly funded this professional development pro- At Cave Hill, the School of Education continued to gramme for nurses in Tobago and there were other pri- engage with several TLIs in the UWI-12 countries, vate institutions which expressed interest in the services notwithstanding the fact that many of its programmes of the School to enhance the development of their have now been devolved to the Open Campus. For nurses. This is proving to be a good source of income example, a number of franchise arrangements have for the School. been worked out with several teachers’ colleges. The more recent of the franchised BEd and Diploma pro- The Science and Agriculture Faculty undertook a grammes have been those offered by the College of St number of activities geared towards upgrading skills of Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Dominica State workers in various sectors in Trinidad and Tobago as College. The BEd programme in the BVI completed its well as in other countries in the region. Some of these first cohort of students in June 2010 and a new cohort initiatives included: 85 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 • The offering of a number of target specific short • Organisation of a workshop on “Low-cost Wireless training courses through the Faculty’s Business Computer Networking”. The objective of this work- Development Unit geared at upgrading the skills of shop was to build capacity in the country and the our agricultural labour force. region in low cost wireless technologies for social • Organisation of a workshop on electronics for networks and education. Contributing institutions CAPE teachers in association with the Ministry of included: Education. • The Abdus Salam International Centre for • Organisation and hosting of the 2009 ISYA (Inter- Theoretical Physics national School for Young Astronomers). • The Internet Society • The coordination of the “Unfolding Seminar Series” • Network Start-up Resource Center (NSRC), and – linking employers with physics students. • The Foundation Escuela Latinoamericana • Organisation of a capacity building international de Redes (EsLaRed). training programme “Caribbean Training Pro- gramme on Bio-informatics: Application of Struc- The Regional Coordinating Unit of tural and Computational Biology in Biomedical the CHART & The Caribbean Health Sciences” (January 2010 ) in collaboration with the Leadership Institute International Centre for Genetics Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) and United Nations Univer- The Regional Coordinating Unit (RCU) of the sity-Biotechnology for Latin America and the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network Caribbean (UNU-BIOLAC). Funding was received and the Caribbean Health Leadership Institute (CHLI) from ICGEB (Euro 20,000) and UNU-BIOLAC. Dele- which report directly to the UWI Vice-Chancellor, both gates from the Americas, Caribbean and Europe serve the CARICOM group of countries by building the participated in this workshop. Trainers came from capacity of individuals and health care teams. This in India, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Uruguay and turn, helps to strengthen national health pro- USA. grammes. CHART and CHLI have also continued to Dr Kevin Fenton, Centre for Disease Control (CDC) & Cohort two scholars at first retreat in Montego Bay, May 2010 86 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 establish strong partnerships with other academic institutions and with several international agencies on The activities of the Regional behalf of the UWI. Coordinating Unit of the The activities of the Regional Coordinating Unit of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Network and the Regional Training Network Caribbean Health Leadership Institute have both con- tributed to the strengthening of national engagements, and the Caribbean Health regionality and international partnerships. Leadership Institute have The RCU continued to partner with CHART training cen- both contributed to the tres in Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago strengthening of national and with the HIV/AIDS Project Unit of the OECS Secre- engagements, regionality and tariat, which covers the nine OECS member states. The Network provides continuing professional education to international partnerships. physicians, nurses, pharmacists, counsellors and com- munity-based lay workers who serve persons living with HIV and associated medical conditions, including tuber- culosis. In Barbados and Jamaica, special attention was given to training for Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV infection, while in the OECS, focus was on a situational analysis of services for investigation and treatment of persons who are the contacts of index cases of HIV infection. CHART is also continuing to implement a clinical men- toring programme in several countries in partnership with the US-based International Training and Education Centre on HIV (I-TECH), University of Washington at These guidelines were approved by the Pan-American Seattle. As part of this initiative, thirteen of the most Health Organisation, published in January 2010 and dis- experienced OECS physicians and nurses attended a seminated to all CARICOM countries. In addition, a TB training workshop in preparation for their impending nurses’ network and a TB clinical consultation service for roles as clinical mentors. physicians have been established and project personnel have attended the Annual Conference of the Interna- The RCU and the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre tional Union against TB and Lung Disease (North Amer- (CAREC) are co-leads in a multi-country, multi-agency ica Region). partnership aimed at strengthening collaboration between HIV and tuberculosis programmes in nine The RCU has begun to represent CHART on the Jamaica Caribbean countries. These two Caribbean agencies are Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG) of partnering with I-TECH and the Francis J. Curry National the Ministry of Health and on a Caribbean Regional Tuberculosis Center, University of California at San Fran- Monitoring & Evaluation Technical Working Group. This cisco. Project teams visit selected countries to support important group was established in recognition of the implementation of rapid HIV testing and implementa- need to gather and evaluate data pertaining to the HIV tion of Directly-Observed Treatment of persons with TB. epidemic with utmost accuracy. Its mandate is to A trans-Caribbean technical working group has updated maximise the timeliness, efficiency and effectiveness of the Caribbean TB guidelines, incorporating information efforts that address HIV-related monitoring and evalua- about prevention and treatment of TB/HIV co-infection. tion in the Caribbean. ¶ 87 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Leveraging International Partnerships INCREASING INTER-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS to exchange students from Finland arrived at Cave Hill in enhance regional development through capacity build- Semester I. The International Office also played a key ing, acquisition of resources and knowledge transfer is role in the establishment of the Sweden-funded Lin- considered a critical factor in facilitating the goals of the naeus-Palme Agreement which will facilitate academic Strategic Plan. exchanges between the Kristianstad University and the UWI Cave Hill Campus. As part of a strategic goal to internationalise the Cave Hill Campus, academic links were established with The Mona Campus continued to grow its partnerships several institutions in Scandinavia. During the year with overseas universities, to enable greater exposure under review, the campus welcomed Professor Hanuu for its students to diverse learning environments and Savolainen, Professor of Surgery to the Faculty of Med- opportunities for faculty to collaborate on research. ical Sciences while the Director of the International Initiatives undertaken during the last academic year in Office, Dr Anthony Fisher, visited the Biomedicum support of this objective include: Research Centre of the University of Helsinki and Regea, • The launch of the new Confucius Institute at the Research Centre of the University of Tampere, in Mona in June 2010 to facilitate the teaching/learn- Finland. ing of the Chinese language as well as research on Contacts were also established between the UWI and the Chinese homeland, its cultures and people; Laurea University in Espoo and a number of projects • Hosting of exchange students from ten overseas focussed on recycling and computer sciences were insti- universities in North America, Africa and Europe for tuted. These new agreements with universities in Fin- periods of one and two semesters, with similar land and also with Kristianstad University in Sweden arrangements for Mona students who went off to have been instrumental in attracting study-abroad stu- academic institutions overseas; dents from Scandinavia to the campus. The first eight • The hosting of the Colombian and Venezuelan Increasing inter-institutional relationships to enhance regional development through capacity building, acquisition of resources and knowledge transfer is a critical factor in facilitating the goals of the Strategic Plan 88 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 contingents, comprising faculty and students, at scholars from twelve countries completed the second the UWI, Mona Campus during February 2010; round of training in March 2010. The third cohort • Increasing the focus on faculty research collabora- (March 2010-February 2011) was expanded to 31 schol- tion, such as the ongoing engagement between ars from 13 countries, including six persons from the Professor Helen Asemota of Mona and her counter- Dutch-speaking Caribbean – three from Suriname, two parts at Shaw University in the US; from Curaçao and one from Aruba. By the end of the • The hosting of a three-day symposium titled “State first two learning cycles, there were 44 graduates and of Freedom: Freedom of States”, by the UWI in col- an alumni group had been launched. laboration with Duke University, part of efforts by The CHLI curriculum is patterned after that of the suc- both institutions to build a strong partnership to cessful US National Public Health Institute, with a delib- foster productive intellectual exchanges; sharpen erate effort to include case studies and leadership academic research agendas; and support possible experience from the Caribbean. There is a mixture of future faculty and student exchanges. on-site and distance learning activities. Participants attend two three-day residential retreats over an eleven- month period, with the remaining aspects of the course UWI/UNESCO-IHE – Building new being delivered via the Internet and through Action alliances with strategic partners Learning Projects (ALPs). Mr William Iton, UWI Registrar In July 2010 the UWI, represented by officials from the and Dr Marthelise Eersel, Director of Health, Ministry of St Augustine Campus, was among 19 key interna- Health, Suriname were inspirational guest speakers at tional education and research institutes to sign the this year’s retreats. UNESCO-IHE vision statement on strengthening collabo- Participants and sponsors of the programme have given ration in water education, research and capacity devel- it superlative ratings. The first formal evaluation of out- opment. Partners committed to strengthening the comes and early impact was conducted in February and community of water practicing professionals and scien- March 2010 using structured, pre-tested surveys and in- tists in order to establish appropriate water policies. depth interviews with graduates and their supervisors. Among other findings, a majority of graduates reported The Caribbean Health Leadership strengthening in: understanding of their leadership Institute styles; courage to step into leadership roles; confidence in their leadership abilities; and their perceived ability to In September 2007, the UWI HIV/AIDS Response Pro- work effectively with other leaders whose styles and gramme (HARP) entered into a five-year cooperative ways of thinking may be different from their own. agreement with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the establishment of the Caribbean Health Leadership Institute (CHLI). The CDC UWI and Latin-America funds come from the US President’s Emergency Fund for With respect to the wider region, the Latin America- AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and are supplemented by partial Caribbean Centre (LACC), located in the Vice- scholarships from the Pan-American Health Organisa- Chancellery, continued to explore opportunities for tion, contributions from some Governments and schol- institutional collaboration and cooperation agreements ars’ fees. The CHLI office is co-located with the CHART between the UWI and other institutions in the region. Regional Coordinating Unit. Several partnerships were negotiated targeting institu- The programme continues to attract a multi-disciplinary tional strengthening and arrangements with national group of established and emerging leaders from the and international funding agencies to sustain projects health sector in the CARICOM Caribbean. Twenty-five were pursued. 89 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Strengthening International Partnerships UWI/Haiti The Haitian Higher Education system faced numerous structural challenges having been severely damaged by the January 12, 2010 earthquake. The University of the West Indies committed, through its Presidency of the Association of Caribbean Universities and Research Insti- tutes (UNICA), to work with institutional partners and UNICA members in Haiti (Université d’Etat d’Haïti, Uni- versité Quisqueya, Université Notre Dame d’Haïti and the Université Caraïbe) and other entities committed to the process, including INURED, CORPUCA, AUF and the Vice-Chancellor Harris, Dr Nivea Hernandez (University of Puerto Rico) and Dr Mathew Smith at UNICA meeting, March 2010 Consortium coordinated by the University of Massachu- setts, involving several colleges and universities in anchored on: increased teaching and research capacity Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and the US, to support and the strengthening of quality assurance while pro- rebuilding and improving Higher Education in Haiti. moting curricula that respond to the needs of students and take account of societal demands. UNICA networks The LACC acted as focal point in organising the visit of permanently with other regional associations. Some UWI teams to Universities in Haiti to discuss collabora- strategies identified for promoting partnerships for tion with various Faculties, in the areas of student and enhanced collaboration and cooperation are to iden- staff exchanges and joint research. This visit resulted tify/map research pillars, mission priorities and technical from experiences shared by the Haitian counterparts at expertise of institutions; construct a regional data base the 2010 UNICA Conference held in March at the St of interests, needs and strengths to support inter- and Augustine Campus. The collaboration matrix prepared intra-regional partnerships. The UWI intends to widen by the LACC includes the areas of urban and settle- the scope of the technical expertise data base in ments planning, human resources development policy, progress to map the strengths of other UNICA member distance education, building technical capacity for pro- institutions in order to develop collaborative proposals gramme delivery, disaster risk management, scholar- for funding, promote institution and industry partner- ships, mobilisation of UWI student support for Haitian ships, and encourage language training to facilitate scholarship students, enhancing English competence to collaboration and knowledge sharing. pursue UWI programmes, languages & translation and the training of Haitian librarians. UWI/PDVSA, Venezuela UWI/UNICA The LACC continued to provide English Language train- For the period 2010– 2012, the LACC serves as Secre- ing for professionals from Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. tariat for the Association of Caribbean Universities and (PDVSA) and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum Research Institutes (UNICA) under the Presidency of the (MENPET) within the framework of an agreement to Vice-Chancellor. The membership of the Association provide immersion English Language training for 200 of includes Universities and Research Institutes from the their employees at the UWI over a 2-year period. In wider Caribbean, with associate membership by North 2010, the LACC hosted 82 participants from various American and European institutions which have a career backgrounds including Engineering, Journalism, Caribbean Studies interest. In its leadership role, the Accounting, Administration and Law. Each group was UWI has promoted an internationalisation agenda hosted for a period of three months at the Mona 90 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Campus and Western Jamaica Campus in Montego Bay. Over 100 professionals were also trained at the Cave Hill Campus. UWI/Colombia The four-week bilateral student exchange programme with Colom- bian institutions was held in June- July. Each year, students from the UWI campus community travel to Colombia for 4–6 weeks, during which time they participate in Span- ish Language classes and a host of cultural activities. A similar group of students from various Universities in Colombia spend a month at the UWI, on its three campuses. To Colombian Exchange Students at Cave Hill date, the UWI has received 333 stu- dents from institutions in Colombia, with the Mona ment and to gain experience in foreign language teach- Campus receiving 151 students. Likewise, Universities in ing methodologies. During the period in review, the Colombia, namely, Universidad del Norte and Universi- UWI sent a total of ten and received three teaching dad Nacional have received approximately 330 partici- assistants. pants from all three UWI Campuses with the Mona In addition LACC coordinated the application process Campus sending 151 of that total. for several postgraduate scholarships offered by Latin For the first time the LACC received 20 participants American governments and funding agencies including from the EAN University in Bogotá, Colombia in its Eng- the OAS, Mexico, Colombia – ICETEX and Chile. lish Language summer programme. This was facilitated During the period, LACC also represented the UWI in by an agreement between the University of the West bilateral meetings with Latin America and networked Indies and EAN University. with regional associations at international conferences. Teaching Assistantship Programme Distinguished Visitor The LACC coordinates the UWI Teaching Assistantship Former Vice President and Minister of Defence of Programme for graduate students. To date, 72 UWI Colombia, historian Dr Gustavo Bell Lemus visited the graduates have had one-year attachments at Colombian Mona Campus in April 2010 and presented a Public HEIs. This annual activity is provided for by an agree- Lecture entitled 1810 –2010: From Solitude to Solidarity. ment between the UWI and ICETEX (Instituto Colom- Reflections on the Past and the Future of Latin America biano de Crédito Educativo y Estudios Técnicos en el on the Bicentenary of Its Independence. The occasion Exterior) and facilitated by the Embassy of Colombia in was the Bicentenary of the Independence of Latin Jamaica and the Jamaican Embassy in Colombia. The America. This lecture was one in a series of talks hosted objective of this programme is to expose recent UWI by the LACC for the benefit of the Mona Campus graduates to working in a Spanish-speaking environ- community. ¶ 91 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Engaging The Alumni THE FOCUS OF THE ALUMNI RELATIONS arm of the Insti- AO Social Media: In order to be available to the alumni tutional Advancement Division (IAD) continues to be the on a continuous basis in as many media as possible, engagement of UWI’s alumni population, in recognition graduates are also able to keep connected to UWI via of the fact that they are the “living history” of the insti- Alumni Online on Facebook (facebook.com/uwialum- tution. Alumni are encouraged to consider their alma nionline), Twitter (twitter@uwialumnionline) and mater as a lifelong partner for ongoing professional and YouTube (www.youtuble.com/user/uwialumnionline) personal development. The following strategic activities UWI E-Mail for Life: UW graduates are automatically enhance this: offered free, permanent email addresses upon graduation. Communications UWI Connect: The alumni magazine which is published The major focus remains Alumni Online (AO) quarterly is available in a flip magazine format on the (www.alumnionline.uwi.edu) the web and social net- web at Alumni Online and also in a print version. working community for the global UWI alumni popula- tion. The site is both informational and interactive and provides increased “connectivity” between graduates as Student Alumni Programming well as with the institution. Alumni Online members receive monthly AO Updates, special E-Announcements Members of the Vice-Chancellor’s UWI STAT (Students and “Pelican Perks” available only through the site. Dur- Today, Alumni Tomorrow) Corps are responsible for pro- ing the first year, the AO email listing grew from 700 to moting their respective campuses as well as the entire over 11,000 and the site assisted the growth of the institution, both regionally and internationally. They Raisers Edge central alumni database from 20,000 to pledge lifelong commitment to their alma mater and over 50,000. become Alumni Ambassadors upon graduation. The seventh enabler speaks to the need to foster better relations with the alumni, recognising that the graduates, as products of the institution, are its best advocates 92 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 The annual UWI STAT Ambassadorial Visit What is UWI STAT? programme to high schools around the region shows tangible advocacy of the strategic mandate of UWI STAT Ambassadors are the Vice-Chancel- “Strengthening Regionality” by allowing: lor’s Student Representatives on all four UWI campuses. Activities and events are organised • the student talent and leadership at UWI to be and coordinated through the Institutional showcased to promote UWI as a first option for Advancement Division. tertiary education to Caribbean students; Main Objectives: • the promotion of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy to the youth of the region; 1. To promote UWI, foster “Pelican Pride” and loyalty to Alma Mater. • the encouragement of HIV / Aids prevention in 2. To encourage Caribbean integration and Caribbean youth; the CSME. • the promotion of disaster mitigation and risk 3. To promote HIV/Aids prevention in the management in the region. Caribbean. Meetings with Prime Ministers, Ministers of Education They are responsible for promoting their and leaders in other sectors are also arranged. Eleven campus and the entire institution regionally and of the UWI countries were visited from October 2009– internationally. They encourage their student February 2010, namely, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, peers to “give back” to their campuses through the regional annual FOOTPRINTS: Students The Commonwealth of Bahamas, Belize, The British Vir- for Development programme. gin Islands, The Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, UWI STAT Ambassadors strive to be leaders and The Federation of St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia and companions to fellow students, alumni and the St Vincent and the Grenadines. 2,360 students were UWI community. They introduce students to addressed directly with additional media impact being the importance of alumni relations and loyalty achieved through over fifteen live radio and television and service, educate them about the UWIAA interviews. The information obtained from these visits is and the relevance of Caribbean cross-cultural used by the Vice-Chancellor for strategic interventions, integrations. planning and to inform management decisions. UWI STAT provides students with opportunities for integration with fellow Caribbean colleagues. Other UWI STAT activities included: It encourages the development of leadership skills. It provides experiences that enhance their • CSME Week (March 2010). education and promotes regional “Pelican Pride” • Prime Minister’s Lecture: Cave Hill (November 11, through involvement in campus, community and 2009). The theme was “The Importance of Educa- alumni activities. tion in the Caribbean in this New Era of Globalisa- tion” delivered by The Honourable David Thompson, M.P, Q.C Prime Minister of Barbados. • FOOTPRINTS: Students for Development Campaign. (September-May) This is the first regional student giving campaign in the history of The UWI. The annual campaign is designed to encourage student participation in campus development, to foster “Pelican Pride” and encourage an allegiance to UWI. • Alumni and Homecoming Weeks: UWI STAT partici- pated in alumni and homecoming weeks on all 93 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Using Alumni Online (AO) to collect information: Dr Shirin Haque (L) member of the Task Force on “Regional Nature of UWI” and lucky survey prize winner, Simone Francois. campuses. The Corps supports the UWIAA and UWI Association Chapters and Contacts uses the various social networking sites to promote their events. UWI graduates are represented by twenty-three UWI • Matriculation, Graduation and Pelican Pride: Loyalty Alumni Association (UWIAA) Chapters and contacts to alma mater is promoted year round, especially worldwide and provide significant value to the UWI in: during Orientation and UWI STAT Ambassadors education and training, profile raising, student recruit- encourage graduates to join the Alumni Online ment, alumni recruitment, mentorship and E-mentor- community, obtain UWI Email for Life addresses ship, speakers/conference participants and networking. and join the UWIAA at graduation. In 2009, the UWIAA Chapters and alumni collectively • Promotion of the UWI: The main means of promot- contributed US$307,384.08 in donations, ing the UWI is via high school and community visits US$147,117.47 in pledges and US$13,450.00 in-kind and this is done both regionally and nationally. The donations through the Institutional Advancement Divi- St Augustine Corps visited the most schools nation- sion. All the Chapters and contacts continue to work ally during the year. along with the IAD to build “One UWI, One Alumni • CONFERENCES: UWI STAT represented the UWI at Family”. the following: Activities such as the Alumni Apprentice and Experience • CARICOM Youth Forum Progammes, the Legacy Programme, the Vice-Chancel- • Vision 2020 Youth Fora Launch lor’s President’s Club, the organisation of the Central • Commonwealth Youth Forum Executive Committee (CEC) Meeting for UWIAA Presi- 94 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 dents, as well as the monthly teleconference between Foundation for UWI (BFUWI), to the Campus Endow- the Director of Alumni Relations and the UWIAA Presi- ment Funds, the Chancellor’s Circle, the UWI Regional dents also ensure that graduates remain involved and Endowment Fund and the Faculties and Departments. “connected”. Alumni also contribute funds through the UWI Visa credit card by special arrangement with First Caribbean Foundations International Bank (FCIB). This product allows alumni to give back to UWI just by making purchases, at no cost The UWIAA Chapters and alumni in general support the to themselves. In 2009/2010 this product raised American Foundation for UWI, the British Foundation US$55,341.37 for the institution and alumni are encour- for UWI and the Canadian Gala Initiative. The UWIAA aged to obtain and utilise the product which offers Chapters assist with the promotion of these entities, reduced fees and interest rates as an added incentive. raise awareness, build contacts and assist with aug- It is currently available in Jamaica and Barbados and menting the donor base. roll-out to Antigua, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts, St Lucia and St Vincent is expected by October 2010. Funding Overall, Alumni Relations seeks to foster increasingly Various sources provide annual funding to the UWI. The stronger relationships with its alumni population UWIAA Chapters give scholarships and bursaries annu- regionally and globally, recognising that our ally. In addition funds are donated by alumni to the graduates, as products of our institution are our best American Foundation for UWI (AFUWI), the British advocates. ¶ Members of the UWIAA Central Executive Committee at their meeting in February, 2010 in the Bahamas 95 GRADUATES OF CAVE HILL 1 , 566 > MONA 3 , 455 96 THEUWI 2010 ST AUGUSTINE 3 , 458 > OPEN CAMPUS 631 97 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 University Council 2010/2011 CHAIR St Augustine The Hon Girlyn Miguel Sir George Alleyne Professor Chidum Ezenwaka St Vincent & The Grenadines Dr Hamid Ghany The Hon Fazal KarimVICE-CHANCELLOR Trinidad & Tobago Professor E. Nigel Harris Open Campus Dr Olabisi Kuboni APPOINTED BY THE CHANCELLORCHAIRMEN OF CAMPUS COUNCILS Mr Lincoln Williams Dr Compton Bourne Mr Paul Altman Cave Hill Mr Edwin Carrington APPOINTED BY THE ALUMNI Dr Marshall Hall Dr Charmaine GardnerASSOCIATION Mona Mr Aubyn Hill Mr Jerry Medford Mr Ewart Williams The Hon Dennis LalorMr Frank “Paco” Smith, Jr St Augustine TERTIARY LEVELS INSTITUTIONS Sir Dwight Venner APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNMENTS REPRESENTATIVE Open Campus OF THE CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES Dr Roosevelt Williams The Hon Eddison Baird PRO-VICE-CHANCELLORS Anguilla COMMITTEE OF DEANS Professor Alvin Wint REPRESENTATIVE Undergraduate Studies The Hon Dr Jacqui Quin-Leandro Antigua & Barbuda Professor Archibald McDonald Professor Wayne Hunte The Hon Desmond Bannister SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFResearch Bahamas REPRESENTATIVE Professor Ronald Young The Hon Ronald Jones Mr David MylesGraduate Studies Barbados Cave Hill Campus Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie Planning & Development The Hon Patrick Faber ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL & Belize SERVICE STAFF REPRESENTATIVE CAMPUS PRINCIPALS The Hon Dame Jennifer Smith Ms Sheren Thorpe Professor Sir Hilary Beckles Bermuda Open Campus Cave Hill The Hon Andrew Fahie FOUR STUDENT MEMBERS ON Professor The Hon Gordon Shirley British Virgin Islands COUNCIL Mona The Hon Rolston Anglin Mr Odwin Trenton (Cave Hill) Professor Clement Sankat The Cayman Islands St Augustine Mr Jovaughn Neil (Mona) The Hon Petter Saint Jean Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald Mr Amilcar Sanatan (St Augustine)Dominica Open Campus Mr Peter Dunn (Open Campus) The Hon Franka Bernardine REPRESENTATIVES OF ACADEMIC Grenada UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN BOARDS The Hon Andrew Holness Ms Jennifer Joseph Cave Hill Jamaica UNIVERSITY BURSAR Professor Alan Cobley The Hon Colin Riley Mr Archibald Campbell Professor Eudine Barriteau Montserrat UNIVERSITY REGISTRAR (SECRETARY) Mona The Hon Nigel Carty St Christopher/Nevis Mr C. William Iton Professor Dale Webber The Hon Arsene James Professor Ishenkumba Kahwa Miss Cecile Clayton (In attendance) St Lucia 99 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 The Executive Management Committee Professor E. Nigel Harris Professor Sir Hilary Beckles Professor The Hon Gordon Shirley Professor Clement Sankat Vice-Chancellor Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Cave Hill Mona St Augustine Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald Professor Alvin Wint Professor Ronald Young Professor Wayne Hunte Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Open Campus Undergraduate Studies Graduate Studies Research Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie Mr C. William Iton Mr Archibald Campbell Mrs Brigitte Collins Pro Vice-Chancellor, Planning and University Registrar University Bursar/Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Development Ms Cecile Clayton Professor Eudine Barriteau Professor Rhoda Reddock Professor Vivienne Roberts Deputy University Registrar Deputy Principal, Cave Hill Deputy Principal, St Augustine Deputy Principal, Open Campus 100 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Committee of Deans Professor Brian Copeland Professor Pedro Welch Dr Swithin Wilmot Professor Funso Aiyejina Engineering Humanities & Education, Cave Hil Humanities & Education, Mona Humanities & Education, St Augustine Professor The Hon Velma Newton Professor Joseph Branday Professor Archibald McDonald Professor Samuel Ramsewak Law Medical Sciences, Cave Hill Medical Sciences, Mona Medical Sciences, St Augustine Dr Robin Roberts Mr Peter Gibbs Professor Ishenkumba Kahwa Professor Dyer Narinesingh School of Clinical Medicine & Pure and Applied Sciences, Cave Hill Pure and Applied Sciences, Mona Science and Agriculture, St Augustine Research,The Bahamas Dr George Belle Professor Mark Figueroa Dr Hamid Ghany (Chair) Mr Lincoln Williams Mrs Luz Longsworth Social Sciences, Cave Hill Social Sciences, Mona Social Sciences, St Augustine Director , CSDR, Open Campus Director, Open Campus Sites 101 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Staff Developments 2009/2010 CAVE HILL CAMPUS Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature Dr Richard Clarke Promotions Senior Lecturer Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature Miss Janet Caroo Dr Victor Simpson Level II (Lecturer level) Senior Lecturer Marketing Officer, Office of the Principal Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature Mr Neil Broome Dr Kean Gibson Information Technologist II Professor Campus IT Services Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature Mr Shawn Holder Dr Clive Landis Information Technologist II Professor Campus IT Services Chronic Disease Research Centre Mrs Deborah Lashley Ms Lesley Walcott Information Technologist II Senior Lecturer Campus IT Services Faculty of Law Mr Kevin McCollin Information Technologist II Dr Colin Depradine Campus IT Services Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Mr Roland Yarde Physics Information Technologist II Campus IT Services New Appointments Mr Kenneth Chase Librarian I Ms Anthea Hinkson Main Library Assistant Registrar (Human Resources) Campus IT Services Dr Sabrina Rampersad Miss Jessica Lewis Lecturer Librarian II Department of History and Philosophy Main Library Dr Emmanuel Adugu Dr Pedro Welch Lecturer Professor Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work Faculty of Humanities and Education Professor Joseph Branday Dr Bernadette Farquhar Dean Senior Lecturer Faculty of Medical Sciences 103 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Dr Jacinta Anthony-Branday ERROL BARROW CENTRE FOR CREATIVE IMAGINATION Medical Officer Mr Moussa Sene Absa Office of Students Services Lecturer Dr Kim Quimby Mr Frank Taylor Lecturer Lecturer Chronic Disease Research Centre Ms Sonia Williams Ms Carol Belle-Hallsworth Teaching Assistant Functional Analyst Bursary FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION Dr S Tennyson Joseph Ms Janice Jules Lecturer Instructor Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work Ms Zoanne Edwards Ms Carla Springer Instructor Manager Mr Kelvin Quintyne Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination Instructor Mr Austral Estwick Ms Joyce Stewart User Services Manager Instructor Campus IT Services Ms Carolyn Walkes Instructor Temporary Appointments Ms Shirley Morris Mr Adrian Sobers Tutor, Foundation Language Programme Information Technologist (Database Administrator) Mr Marco Schaumloeffel Campus IT Services Lecturer Department of History and Philosophy Ms Sandra Vaughn Ms Crystal Barker Nurse Administrator Teaching Assistant Office of Student Services Ms Alana Johnson Dr Sylvia Henry Lecturer Instructional Development Specialist Ms Keisha Evans Learning Resource Centre Lecturer Department of Language, Linguistics and Ms Sonia Bowen Literature Senior Library Assistant Ms Helen Zamor Main Library Lecturer Mr Orley Jones Ms Nicola Hunte Librarian III Teaching Assistant Main Library Ms Astrid Clavijo Lozano Mrs Sandra Thomas Teaching Assistant Senior Library Assistant Ms Luz RodrRguez Cuberos Main Library Teaching Assistant Ms Fay Thompson FACULTY OF LAW Senior Library Assistant Main Library Ms Karen Tesheira Mr David Mayers Senior Lecturer Research Assistant Ms Sheldine Greene Quality Assurance Programme Senior Library Assistant Law Library 104 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES Dr Kristina Hinds-Harrison Dr Carlisle Goddard Lecturer Department of Management Studies Lecturer Ms Kerry-Ann Alleyne Dr Hugh Thomas Teaching Assistant Lecturer Ms Tracey Broome Research Assistant FACULTY OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES Dr Robertine Chaderton Mrs Heather Hennis Senior Lecturer Lecturer Mr Dion Greenidge Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences Lecturer Dr Georgette Briggs Ms Nicole Knight-Arthur Lecturer Lecturer Dr Joy Roach Dr Paul Pounder Lecturer Lecturer Dr Vince Payne Mr Alfred Walkes Teaching Assistant Department of Computer Science, Lecturer Mathematics and Physics Mrs Diana Weekes-Marshall Mr Andre Lynch Lecturer Assistant Lecturer Mr Pierre Rock INSTITUTE FOR GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT: Teaching Assistant NITA BARROW UNIT Dr Unsal Tekir Ms Joan Cuffie Lecturer Centre for Resource Management and Lecturer Environmental Studies (CERMES) Ms Halimah Deshong Ms Katherine Blackman Assistant Lecturer Research Assistant Resignations FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Mr Eduardo Ali Mr Wilberne Persaud Quality Assurance Officer Senior Lecturer Office of the Principal Department of Economics Mr Gene Cumberbatch-Lynch Mr Anderson Elcock Lecturer Lecturer Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination Mr Anthony Wood Ms Kerry-Ann Alleyne Lecturer Department of Government, Sociology and Temporary Teaching Assistant Social Work Department of Management Studies Retirements Dr Sandra Franklin-Hamilton Dr Louis Chinnery Lecturer Senior Lecturer Dr Wendy Grenade Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences Lecturer Mr Gerald Rose Ms Gina Griffith Senior Lecturer Lecturer School of Education Professor Mr Pearson Broome Andrew Burgess Lecturer Faculty of Law 105 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Dr Hugh Millington Dr Roy Porter Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Department of Computer Science, Mathematics & Department of Chemistry Physics FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES Professor Jamal Khan Dr Minerva Thame Senior Lecturer Professor Department of Management Studies Department of Child Health Professor Christine Barrow Dr Wendel Abel Professorial Fellow Senior Lecturer Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Department of Community Health & Psychiatry Economic Studies Dr Deanne Soares Senior Lecturer Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care MONA CAMPUS FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Promotions Dr Edward Ghartey Professor FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION Department of Economics Dr Matthew Smith Mr Claremont Kirton Senior Lecturer Professor Department of History Department of Economics Dr Sonja Stanley-Niaah Dr David Tennant Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Institute of Caribbean Studies Department of Economics Dr Donna Hope Dr Densil Williams Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Institute of Caribbean Studies Department of Management Studies Dr Otelemate Harry Dr Patricia Northover Senior Lecturer Senior Research Fellow Department of Language, Linguistics & Philosophy Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies FACULTY OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES Mrs Swarna Bandara Dr Wayne McLaughlin Senior Librarian Professor Library Department of Basic Medical Sciences Mr Omar Downie Dr Dale Webber Senior Information Technology Officer Professor Mona Information Technology Services Department of Life Sciences Mr Walter Rodney Dr Maxine Gossell-Williams Senior Information Technology Officer Senior Lecturer Mona Information Technology Services Department of Basic Medical Sciences Mr Andrew Saunders Dr Dagogo Pepple Senior Information Technology Officer Senior Lecturer Mona Information Technology Services Department of Basic Medical Sciences 106 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Mr Carlton Lowrie Dr Dwight Whittle Senior Level I Lecturer Office of Student Services and Development Department of Medicine Mrs Rodina Reid Dr Ingrid Tennant-Martin Senior Assistant Registrar Lecturer Secretariat – Office of the Campus Registrar Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia & Mr Leighton Chambers Intensive Care Senior Information Technology Office Dr Joseph Plummer Office of the Campus Registrar Lecturer Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia & New Appointments Intensive Care Dr Davide Batic Mr Julian Cresser Lecturer Lecturer Department of Mathematics Institute of Caribbean Studies Dr Andre Coy Mrs Joan Spencer-Ernandez Lecturer Lecturer Department of Physics Department of Educational Studies Dr Dana-marie Morris Dr Peter Joong Lecturer Senior Lecturer Department of Government Department of Educational Studies Miss Stephanie Pinnock Dr Arkene Levy Administrative Officer Lecturer Faculty of Social Sciences Basic Medical Sciences Dr Michael Barnett Dr Chukwuemeka Nwokocha Lecturer Lecturer Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work Department of Basic Medical Sciences Dr Christopher Malcolm Dr Sherline Brown Lecturer Lecturer Faculty of Law Department of Basic Medical Sciences Mrs Natalie Córthesy Dr Jacqueline Martin Lecturer Lecturer Faculty of Law Department of Community Health & Psychiatry Mrs Sonia Murray Mrs Joy Harrison Administrative Officer Social Worker Office of the Campus Principal Department of Community Health & Psychiatry Mrs Yvonne Wint Dr Kerrian Mah-Lee Lecturer Medical Officer UWI School of Nursing Department of Community Health & Psychiatry Mrs Peta-Gaye Fairclough-Campbell Dr Christine Walters Lecturer Lecturer Department of Economics Medical Sciences Dr Caryl James Dr Adedamola Soyibo Lecturer Lecturer Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work Department of Medicine 107 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Retirements Mrs Paula Niles General Accounting Manager Dr Omkar Parshad Finance & Administration Professor Dr Benita Thompson Department of Basic Medical Sciences Programme Coordinator Dr Ivan Martinez Academic Programming and Delivery Division Lecturer Department of Government OPEN CAMPUS COUNTRY SITES Dr Frederick Hickling Mrs Joan Bobb-Alleyne-Dann Professor Head Community Health & Psychiatry Trinidad & Tobago Mrs Monica Browne OPEN CAMPUS Programme Officer St Vincent and the Grenadines Mr Ryan Byer Promotions Programme Officer Ms Marva Campbell Barbados Programme Officer Mrs Lesley Crane-Mitchell Caribbean Child Development Centre Temporary Outreach Officer Mr Lauren Marsh St Lucia Junior Research Fellow Mr Robert Geofroy Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Institute Acting Head Ms Joan Thomas Cayman Islands Research Fellow Caribbean Child Development Centre Retirements/Resignations Dr Lennox Bernard (Retired) New Appointments Head Ms Tonia Arthur Trinidad and Tobago Functional Analyst Mrs Jeanette Grant-Woodham (Retired) Office of Finance & Administration Senior Programme Officer Dr Ian Baptiste Office of External Relations, Inter and Intra-Institutional Head Pre-University and Professional Programme Collaboration Academic Programming and Delivery Division Mrs Carla Harris-Pascal (Resigned) Ms Pamela Dottin Head Quality Assurance Officer Anguilla Office of the Deputy Principal Mrs Paula Niles (Resigned) Mr Garvin James General Accounting Manager Treasury Manager Finance & Administration Office of Finance & Administration Dr Bevis Peters (Retired) Mrs Annika Lewinson-Morgan Director Multimedia Specialist Office of External Relations, Inter and Intra-Institutional Academic Programming and Delivery Division Collaboration Mr Robert Tucker Dr Marcia Potter (Resigned) Multimedia Specialist Head Academic Programming and Delivery Division British Virgin Islands 108 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Mr Colin Riley (Resigned) Ms Astra Kassiram Programme Officer Student Counsellor, Counselling & Psychological Services Montserrat International Office Mr Lincoln Seecharan (End of contract) Web Administrator Mr Sharan Singh Multimedia and Delivery Unit Appointed Director Academic Programming and Delivery Division Office of Marketing and Communications Professor Howard Spencer (Retired) Mrs Wynell Greggorio Head Appointed Communications Manager Bahamas Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance (CCMF) Dr Derick Boyd Appointed Executive Director ST AUGUSTINE CAMPUS Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) Promotions & Appointments Ms Tisha Nickenig Promoted to Research Project Officer III LIBRARY Ms Karen Eccles Institute of International Relations (IIR) Appointed Librarian I Dr Michelle Scobie Ms Khemchandra Persadsingh Newly appointed – Lecturer Appointed IT Officer (Web Programming) Dr Matthew Bishop Ms Lorraine Nero Newly appointed – Lecturer Granted tenure Seismic Research Centre Ms Meerabai Gosine-Boodoo Mr Clevon Ash Granted tenure Newly appointed – Research Assistant (Outreach) Ms Hannah Francis Mr Omari Graham Promoted to Senior Librarian I Newly appointed – Research Assistant (Seismology) Mr Glenroy Taitt Promoted to Senior Librarian I Sport & Physical Education Centre (SPEC) Business Development Office Ms Karen Wickham Promoted to Sports Coordinator Female Ms Portia Mohammed Appointed Research Assistant FACULTY OF ENGINEERING Mrs Joy Cooblal Appointed Project Coordinator New Appointments Ms Lisa David Dr David Janes Appointed Project Assistant Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Mr Harrichanda Singh Department of Chemical Engineering Appointed Commercialisation Officer Mr Hector Martin (Construction Group) Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Health Service Unit Dr Pramenath Narinesingh (Water Group) Dr Sandra Celestine Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Student Counsellor, Counselling & Psychological Services Mrs Charmaine O’Brien-Delpesh (Coastal Group) Ms Neola Zama Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Student Counsellor, Counselling & Psychological Services 109 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Dr Mirko Schankat (Water Group) Dr Hari Maharajh Lecturer Professor (Psychiatry Unit) Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Dr Nelleen Baboolal Dr Everson Peters Senior Lecturer (Psychiatry Unit) Tenured Dr Neal Bhagwhandass Mr Sanjay Bahadoorsingh Part-time Senior Lecturer (Adult Medicine Unit) Lecturer Dr Mandrekhar Bahall Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Part-time Senior Lecturer (Adult Medicine Unit) Dr Charisse Griffith-Charles School of Dentistry Tenured Department of Geomatics Engineering & Land Dr Jason Warner Management Lecturer, Endodontics Dr Graham King Dr Amit Paryag New Lecturer Assistant Lecturer, Dental Technology Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing School of Veterinary Medicine Engineering Dr Ridley Holder Promotions Senior Lecturer Dr Michael Diptee FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION Lecturer in Veterinary Surgery (Large Animal) Dr Heather Cateau Dr Indira Pargass Senior Lecturer Lecturer in Clinical Pathology Mrs Lynda Quamina-Aiyejina Dr Venkatasan Sundaram Senior Librarian II Level Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy Dr Basil Reid School of Advanced Nursing Education Senior Lecturer Mrs Casian Rawlins Dr Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw Co-Coordinator, MScN programme Senior Lecturer School of Pharmacy FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES Dr Junette Mohan Dr Sureshwar Pandey Lecturer in Human Physiology Senior Lecturer – Pharmaceutics Department of Preclinical Sciences Dr Adebayo Amusa Sarafadeen Dr Michele Monteil Senior Lecturer – Pharmaceutics Professor, Immunology FACULTY OF SCIENCE & AGRICULTURE Department of Paraclinical Sciences Dr Victor Mlambo Dr Rohan Maharaj Lecturer in Animal Nutrition Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Primary Care Dr Marisa Wilson Dr Chalapathi Rao Lecturer in Agricultural Geography Senior Lecturer in Anatomical Pathology Dr Gershwin Davis Department of Life Sciences Senior Lecturer in Chemical Pathology Dr Laetitia Brechet Dr Aneesa Ahamad Postdoctoral Fellow – specialising in Plant Ecophysiology/ Senior Lecturer in Haematology Ecohydrology/Forest Soils in the Biodiversity and Ecosys- Department of Clinical Medical Sciences tem Services Research Cluster 110 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Dr Aidan Farrell Renewal of Appointment Lecturer in Plant Physiology Dr Brian Cockburn Dr Jayaraj Jayaraman Re-appointed Deputy Dean (Enterprise, Development Lecturer in Microbiology Professor and Outreach) Mr Mike Rutherford Professor Indar Ramnarine Museum Curator Re-appointed Deputy Dean, Student Matters Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Retirements/Resignations Dr Christoph Hamburger Lecturer in Mathematics Retired Dr Noel Kalicharan Professor Ramesh Ramsaran Senior Lecturer: crossed the merit bar Institute of International Relations (IIR) Dr Alexander Nikov Dr Merle Hodge Senior Lecturer: extension on contract on indefinite Literatures in English, Department of Liberal Arts tenure Faculty of Humanities & Education Dr Sreedhara Rao Gunakala Dr Ramon Mansoor Lecturer in Mathematics Spanish, Department of Liberal Arts Faculty of Humanities & Education Cocoa Research Unit Dr Sharanya Jayawickrama Mr Eusebius Solazano Literatures in English, Department of Liberal Arts Technical Assistant-I Dr Surendra Surujdeo-Maharaj Ms Laura Serrano Research Fellow/Pathologist, Cocoa Research Unit (Visiting Lecturer), Department of Liberal Arts Prof Pathmanathan Umaharan Professor Dan Ramdath Head, Cocoa Research Unit Professor of Biochemistry Faculty of Medical Sciences Dr David Coomansingh FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Lecturer (Adult Medicine Unit) Dr Randy Seepersad Lecturer in Criminology Resigned Dr Edward Uche-Nwachi Dr Sandra Celestine Lecturer in Human Anatomy Lecturer in Social Work Faculty of Medical Sciences Dr Amar Wahab Dr Altheia Jones-Lecointe Lecturer in Sociology Senior Lecturer in Haematology/ Head Department of Dr Ann Marie Bissessar Para-Clinical Sciences Professor Dr Derek Emmanuel Research Assistant (Child Health Unit) 111 • F ULL-TIME / PART-TIME REGISTRATION • TOTAL FULL-TIME REGISTRATION 24,039 TOTAL PART-TIME REGISTRATION 14,639 TOTAL OFF-CAMPUS/ DISTANCE 2,438 AND 5,320 N THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Student Enrolment 2009/2010 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES enrolled 46,436 target. The St Augustine Campus fell short of its students (including off-campus students) in the 2009/ projected enrolment, achieving 95% of its target. 2010 academic year (See Table 1). This represents a 6.5% percent increase over the previous year or an Open Campus Enrolment additional 2,850 students. Of the 46,436 registrants, 83.3% were on-campus students engaged in face-to- The University’s Open Campus student population face study, 11.5% were enrolled in the Open Campus, reached 5,320 in 2009/2010. This represents an increase while 5.2% were off-campus students studying at terti- of 4.9% or an additional 248 students over the previous ary and affiliated institutions and by distance education. year. On-Campus Enrolment Off-Campus Enrolment The University experienced an 8.1% increase in on-cam- The University’s off-campus student (excluding Open pus enrolment (Table 1). This translates to an additional Campus) population was 2,438 in 2009/2010. This 2,914 students over the previous year. Comparatively, the represents a decrease of 11.3% or 312 less students Mona Campus registered 1,272 additional students while over the previous year. the St Augustine Campus enrolled an extra 1,136 stu- Tertiary level institutions had the largest share of stu- dents and the Cave Hill Campus, 506 additional students. dents with 1,075 followed by distance education pro- For the period 2008/09 to 2009/10, the Mona Campus grammes with 875 students, while affiliated institutions surpassed its projected annual on-campus growth rate, recorded 226 students and external students 226. As a while the Cave Hill and St Augustine fell short of its pro- proportion of off-campus enrolment, tertiary level insti- jected annual growth rates. The targeted annual growth tutions accounted for 44.1%, distance education rates as indicated in the Strategic Plan 2007–12 are 35.9%, affiliated institutions 9.3% and external 9.8% Cave Hill, 3% Mona and 8.6% St Augustine. The students 10.7%. percentage changes in on-campus enrolment over 2008/09 were 10.3% at Mona, 7.3% at St Augustine, Full Time Equivalent Registrations and 6.5% at St Cave Hill (See Graph 1). (On-Campus) In terms of actual enrolment headcount, the projected The University’s full-time equivalent (FTE) enrolment on-campus enrolment for 2009/10 as indicated in the grew by 2,218 to reach 31,359 FTE students in Strategic Plan 2007–12 were 13,571 for Mona, 8,419 2009/2010 (Table 4). This represents a 7.6% increase for Cave Hill and 17,609 for St Augustine. Mona mar- over the previous year. The Mona Campus recorded the ginally surpassed it projected enrolment by achieving highest increase at 10.8% followed by St Augustine at 101% of its target while Cave Hill achieved 99.1% of its 5.9% and Cave Hill at 5.8%. 113 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 At the University and campus levels, the Faculty of Higher degree enrolment, an important area for expan- Social Sciences enrolled the most students followed by sion at the University, remained steady at 16%. As seen Pure and Applied Sciences/Science & Agriculture and in Table 6, the proportion of students pursuing post- Humanities and Education (Table 5). As seen in Table 5, graduate degrees was 18% at Mona, 17% at St Augus- St Augustine led the way in registering the highest tine and 12% at Cave Hill. The St Augustine Campus recorded an increase of 3 percentage points, Cave Hill remained steady at 12%, while the Mona Campus showed a decrease of 2 percentage points. Full-Time and Part-Time Registrations In 2009/2010, the University’s on-campus student popu- lation totalled 38,678 students (Table 7). This represents an increase of 8.1% or 2,914 students. Of the 38,678 students, 24,039 were full-time and 14,639 were part- time. As a proportion, 62.2% of students were full-time and 37.8%, part-time. Compared to the previous year, proportion (52%) of students pursuing science and technology programmes. The corresponding proportions were 39% at Mona and 19% at Cave Hill. Of the 31,359 FTE students, 13,596 were enrolled at St Augustine, 11,577 were enrolled at Mona and 6,186 were registered at Cave Hill. As a proportion of total enrolment, 82.2% of students were pursuing under- graduate study (Table 6). The percentage of students enrolled in undergraduate study was 87.5% at Cave Hill, 81.1% at St Augustine and 80.1% at Mona. full-time enrolment decreased by 1 percentage point. The proportions of full-time to part-time enrolment by campus were 48% to 52% at Cave Hill, 69% to 31% at Mona and 63% to 37% at St Augustine. Since 2004/2005, the Cave Hill Campus has recorded higher enrolment in part-time study than full-time study, however, this gap has been steadily declining. Enrolment by Gender The University of the West Indies has enrolled a dispro- portionately higher percentage of females to males over 114 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Table 8 shows, the Open Campus had the highest pro- portion of females (80%) registered in First degree pro- grammes followed by Mona (70%), Cave Hill (68%) and St Augustine (64%). Each campus also recorded a high percentage of females in the Faculties of Law, Humani- ties and Education, Social Sciences and Medical Sci- ences. The only disciplines where men dominated was the Faculty of Engineering (St Augustine) with a propor- tion of 68% male and 32% female and Pure and Applied Sciences (Cave Hill) with a proportion of 52% male and 48% female. the past decade. In 2009/2010, the proportion of females to males was 69% to 31% for total University enrolment, 67% to 33% for on-campus enrolment, 81% to 19% for Open Campus enrolment and 78% to 22% for off-campus enrolment (Table 7). Overall, the Open Campus recorded the highest propor- tion of females at 81% of total enrolment, followed by Mona Campus with 70% of total enrolment, while Cave Hill’s figure was 68% and St Augustine’s, 64%. A similar pattern emerged for First degree enrolment. As 115 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Student Registrations by Open Campus, 84 % of students were registered in first Faculty and Programme degrees while 12% were in associate degrees. Student registration by Faculty has shown that Univer- Geographical Distribution sity-wide, the Faculty of Social Sciences attracts the of Students most students (Table 9). Of the University’s 43,998 on- campus and Open Campus students, 45.6% or 20,077 As a regional university, the University of the West Indies were registered in the Social Sciences in 2009/2010. enrols students predominantly of Caribbean origin. In This represents a 6.7% increase over the previous year. 2009/2010, 39.2% of university students had origins As a proportion of on-campus enrolment, the Faculty of from Trinidad and Tobago, 33.3% had origins from Social Sciences registered the highest proportion of stu- Jamaica and 15.9% had origins from Barbados (Table dents at each campus ranging from 33% at St Augus- 12). For the fourth year in a row, the majority of tine, to 42% at Mona, to 59% at Cave Hill. The Faculty students came from Trinidad and Tobago. of Humanities and Education attracted the second high- The percentage distribution of students originating from est of students at Mona and Cave Hill with 16.7 and OECS countries declined marginally to 3.2% of total 21.1%, respectively. At St Augustine, Science & Agricul- on-campus enrolment (Table 11). The OECS countries ture attracted the second highest share of students, at include Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, approximately 22.7% of on-campus enrolment. When Montserrat, St Kitts/Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Open Campus enrolment was grouped by Faculty of the Grenadines. Of the 1,187 or 3.1% of OECS students origin, Social Sciences registered the highest proportion enrolled, 1.6% was registered at Cave Hill, 0.5% of students with 75.2%, followed by Humanities and was registered at Mona, and 0.9% was enrolled at Education with 22.4%. St Augustine. A comparison of enrolment by Faculty is presented in For the Open Campus the percentage distribution of Graph 2. The Mona Campus recorded the most stu- students originating from OECS countries was 31.2% dents in Medical Sciences and Social Sciences, while St of the total Open Campus enrolment of 5,320 in Augustine registered the most students in Humanities 2009/2010 (Table 12). and Education, Engineering and Pure and Applied Sci- ences/Science & Agriculture. The Cave Hill Campus For on-campus enrolment, the proportion of students enrolled the most students in Law. originating from non-contributing countries increased marginally from 1.8% in 2008–2009 to 1.9% in By programme, the University of the West Indies caters 2009/10. Of these 720 students, 320 were enrolled in to a predominantly undergraduate student population. the Faculty of Medical Sciences (Table 10). By campus, As seen in Table 7, 35,082 students were pursuing 307 were at St Augustine, 293 at Mona and 120 at undergraduate study from a total of 43,998 on-campus Cave Hill (Table 12). For Open Campus students, stu- and Open Campus students combined. As a proportion dents originating from non-contributing countries of on-campus enrolment, 78% of students were regis- stood at 151 or 2.8% of total enrolment. ¶ tered in undergraduate programmes while 22% were enrolled in postgraduate programmes. For the Open Campus, 98% of students were registered in under- graduate programmes. Among on-campus undergradu- ate students, over 94% were registered in first-degree programmes at each campus. The majority (92% or more) of postgraduate students were registered in higher degree programmes at each campus. At the 116 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Table 1: Comparative Student Registrations at On- and Off- Campus Locations in 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 Student Registration 2008/ Percent 2009/ Percent Number Percent 2009 of Total 2010 of Total Change Change On-Campus Cave Hill 7,836 18.0 8,342 18.0 506 6.5 Mona 12,394 28.4 13,666 29.4 1,272 10.3 St Augustine 15,534 35.6 16,670 35.9 1,136 7.3 Total On-Campus 35,764 82.1 38,678 83.3 2,914 8.1 The Open Campus 5,072 11.6 5,320 11.5 248 4.9 Off-Campus Distance Education Programmes 872 2.0 875 1.9 3 0.3 Tertiary Level Institutions 1,321 3.0 1,075 2.3 -246 -18.6 Affiliated Institutions 273 0.6 226 0.5 -47 -17.2 Other Off-Campus: External 284 0.7 262 0.6 -22 -7.7 Total Off-Campus 2,750 6.3 2,438 5.2 -312 -11.3 Grand Total 43,586 100.0 46,436 100 2,850 6.5 Graph 1: Percentage Change in On-Campus and Open Campus Student Enrolment between 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 Open Campus 4.9 Cave Hill 6.5 Total On-Campus 8.1 Mona 10.3 St Augustine 7.3 117 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Table 2: Total University Student Enrolment by Campus, Faculty, Programme and Gender, 2009/2010 CAMPUS & HUMANITIES & EDUCATION PROGRAMME AGRICULTURE ENGINEERING LAWHUMANITIES EDUCATION T M F T M F T M F T M F T M F CAVE HILL First Degree 0 0 0 1,146 285 861 0 0 0 0 0 0 481 131 350 Certificates & Diplomas 0 0 0 10 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Higher Degrees/PG Diplomas 0 0 0 189 52 137 0 0 0 0 0 0 130 42 88 Specially Admitted 0 0 0 52 19 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 0 0 0 1,397 362 1,035 0 0 0 0 0 0 611 173 438 MONA First Degree 0 0 0 2,009 500 1,509 0 0 0 0 0 0 194 43 151 Certificates & Diplomas 0 0 0 21 11 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Higher Degrees/PG Diplomas 0 0 0 778 141 637 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Specially Admitted 0 0 0 74 31 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 0 0 0 2,882 683 2,199 0 0 0 0 0 0 194 43 151 ST AUGUSTINE First Degree 608 235 373 1,484 324 1,160 406 100 306 1,324 905 419 51 10 41 Certificates & Diplomas 50 13 37 156 50 106 126 21 105 18 12 6 0 0 0 Higher Degrees/PG Diplomas 147 65 82 321 81 240 507 115 392 944 541 403 0 0 0 Specially Admitted 1 1 0 14 1 13 0 0 0 23 19 4 0 0 0 Total 806 314 492 1,975 456 1,519 1,039 236 803 2,309 1,477 832 51 10 41 UNIVERSITY ON-CAMPUS First Degree 608 235 373 4,639 1,109 3,530 406 100 306 1,324 905 419 726 184 542 Certificates & Diplomas 50 13 37 187 67 120 126 21 105 18 12 6 0 0 0 Higher Degrees/PG Diplomas 147 65 82 1,288 274 1,014 507 115 392 944 541 403 130 42 88 Specially Admitted 1 1 0 140 51 89 0 0 0 23 19 4 0 0 0 Total 806 314 492 6,254 1,501 4,753 1,039 236 803 2,309 1,477 832 856 226 630 OPEN CAMPUS First Degrees/Assoc. Degrees 13 6 7 0 0 0 1,073 190 883 0 0 0 0 0 0 Certificates & Diplomas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Higher Degrees/PG Diplomas 0 0 0 0 0 0 119 18 101 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 13 6 7 0 0 0 1,192 208 984 0 0 0 0 0 0 OUTREACH-OFF CAMPUS 0 0 0 822 191 631 3 1 2 61 47 14 76 27 49 Cave Hill 0 0 0 149 23 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 27 49 Mona 0 0 0 673 168 505 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 St Augustine 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 61 47 14 0 0 0 Total University Enrolment 819 320 499 7,076 1,692 5,384 2,234 445 1,789 2,370 1,524 846 932 253 679 118 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Table 2: Total University Student Enrolment by Campus, Faculty, Programme and Gender, 2009/2010 MEDICAL SCIENCES/ NATURAL SCIENCES/ PURE SOCIAL CENTRE FOR GENDER GRADUATE CLINICAL MEDICINE & APPLIED SCIENCES/ SCIENCES AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES TOTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES T M F T M F T M F T M F T M F T M F 128 30 98 1,110 582 528 4,253 1,248 3,005 0 0 0 0 0 0 7,118 2,276 4,842 0 0 0 0 0 0 123 36 87 0 0 0 0 0 0 133 42 91 60 17 43 117 54 63 494 171 323 13 1 12 0 0 0 1,003 337 666 0 0 0 13 7 6 23 7 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 88 33 55 188 47 141 1,240 643 597 4,893 1,462 3,431 13 1 12 0 0 0 8,342 2,688 5,654 1,719 403 1,316 2,094 896 1,198 4,232 1,246 2,986 10 1 9 0 0 0 10,258 3,089 7,169 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 4 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 49 15 34 568 177 391 425 208 217 1,377 431 946 23 3 20 4 2 2 3,175 962 2,213 26 12 14 33 20 13 50 12 38 1 0 1 0 0 0 184 75 109 2,313 592 1,721 2,552 1,124 1,428 5,687 1,693 3,994 34 4 30 4 2 2 13,666 4,141 9,525 1,621 553 1,068 2,644 1,161 1,483 3,491 853 2,638 0 0 0 0 0 0 11,629 4,141 7,488 0 0 0 0 0 0 344 59 285 0 0 0 0 0 0 694 155 539 362 169 193 325 145 180 1,645 534 1,111 18 5 13 0 0 0 4,269 1,655 2,614 1 0 1 20 7 13 19 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 78 32 46 1,984 722 1,262 2,989 1,313 1,676 5,499 1,450 4,049 18 5 13 0 0 0 16,670 5,983 10,687 3,468 986 2,482 5,848 2,639 3,209 11,976 3,347 8,629 10 1 9 0 0 0 29,005 9,506 19,49 0 0 0 0 0 0 495 99 396 0 0 0 0 0 0 876 212 664 990 363 627 867 407 460 3,516 1,136 2,380 54 9 45 4 2 2 8,447 2,954 5,493 27 12 15 66 34 32 92 23 69 1 0 1 0 0 0 350 140 210 4,485 1,361 3,124 6,781 3,080 3,701 16,079 4,605 11,474 65 10 55 4 2 2 38,678 12,812 25,866 98 1 97 0 0 0 3,954 774 3,180 0 0 0 0 0 0 5,138 971 4,167 0 0 0 0 0 0 44 7 37 19 4 15 0 0 0 63 11 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 119 18 101 98 1 97 0 0 0 3,998 781 3,217 19 4 15 0 0 0 5,320 1,000 4,320 791 47 744 269 115 154 416 120 296 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,438 548 1,890 0 0 0 8 3 5 82 21 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 315 74 241 768 38 730 83 30 53 291 87 204 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,815 323 1,492 23 9 14 178 82 96 43 12 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 308 151 157 5,374 1,409 3,965 7,050 3,195 3,855 20,493 5,506 14,987 84 14 70 4 2 2 46,436 14,360 32,076 119 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 120 Table 3: On- and Off-Campus Student Registrations by Programme and Campus, 2009/2010 PROGRAMME LEVEL UNIVERSITY CAVE HILL MONA ST AUGUSTINE OPEN CAMPUS M F T M F T M F T M F T M F T On-Campus/ Open Campus First Degree 10,386 23,112 33,498 2,276 4,842 7,118 3089 7169 10,258 4,141 7,488 11,629 880 3,613 4,493 Associate Degree 91 554 645 – – – – – – – – – 91 554 645 Certificate 154 500 654 6 4 10 0 0 0 147 486 633 1 10 11 Diploma 69 216 285 36 87 123 15 34 49 8 53 61 10 42 52 Advanced Diploma 141 334 475 1 12 13 27 87 114 113 232 345 0 3 3 Higher Degree 2,831 5,260 8,091 336 654 990 935 2,126 3,061 1,542 2,382 3,924 18 98 116 Specially Admitted 140 210 350 33 55 88 75 109 184 32 46 78 0 0 0 Sub-Total 13,812 30,186 43,998 2,688 5,654 8,342 4,141 9,525 13,666 5,983 10,687 16,670 1,000 4,320 5,320 Off-Campus Distance Education 162 713 875 0 0 0 162 713 875 0 0 0 – – – Affiliated Institutions 52 174 226 0 0 0 52 174 226 0 0 0 – – – Tertiary Level InSt 196 879 1,075 74 241 315 109 605 714 13 33 46 – – – External 138 124 262 0 0 0 0 0 0 138 124 262 – – – Sub-Total 548 1,890 2,438 74 241 315 323 1,492 1,815 151 157 308 – – – Total Registration 14,360 32,076 46,436 2,762 5,895 8,657 4,464 11,017 15,481 6,134 10,844 16,978 1,000 4,320 5,320 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Table 4: Comparison of FTE* Enrolment between 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 Campus & Faculty/School 2008/2009 2009/2010 Number change % change CAVE HILL Humanities & Education 974 911 -64 -6.5 Law 482 563 82 16.9 Clinical Medicine & Research 173 185 12 6.6 Pure and Applied Sciences 914 1,006 92 10.1 Social Sciences 3,267 3,469 203 6.2 Institute of Gender & Development Studies 5 10 5 0.0 Special Admittance 36 44 8 22.2 Total 5,849 6,186 337 5.8 MONA Humanities & Education 2,132 2,279 147 6.9 Law 62 193 131 211.3 Medical Sciences 1,998 2,214 216 10.8 Pure and Applied Sciences 2,080 2,344 264 12.7 Social Sciences 4,055 4,413 358 8.8 Institute of Gender & Development Studies 17 24 7 41.2 Graduate Studies 2 3 1 66.7 Special Admittance 103 109 6 5.3 Total 10,448 11,577 1,129 10.8 St AUGUSTINE Sciences & Agriculture: Agriculture 814 700 -114 -14.0 Humanities & Education 2,267 2,368 101 4.4 Engineering 1,875 1,869 -6 -0.3 Law 76 51 -25 -32.9 Medical Sciences 1,660 1,816 156 9.4 Sciences & Agriculture: Sciences 2,458 2,749 291 11.8 Social Sciences 3,630 3,988 358 9.9 Institute of Gender & Development Studies 20 17 -4 -17.5 Special Admittance 44 40 -5 -10.2 Total 12,844 13,596 752 5.9 UNIVERSITY Sciences & Agriculture: Agriculture 814 700 -114 -14.0 Humanities & Education 5,373 5,557 184 3.4 Engineering 1,875 1,869 -6 -0.3 Law 620 807 188 30.3 Medical Sciences/Clinical Medicine & Research 3,831 4,214 383 10.0 Pure and Applied Sciences/Sci. & Agri.: Sciences 5,452 6,099 647 11.9 Social Sciences 10,952 11,870 918 8.4 Institute of Gender & Development Studies 42 50 9 20.5 Graduate Studies 2 3 1 66.7 Special Admittance 183 192 9 4.9 Total 29,141 31,359 2,218 7.6 *For purposes of computing FTE, 2 part-time students are counted as one FTE. No weighting is given for postgraduate students. It should be noted that these FTE figures are only computed for on-campus students. 121 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Table 5: Actual FTE Enrolment by Campus and Faculty/School, 2009/2010 Faculty/School CAVE HILL MONA ST AUGUSTINE TOTAL Science & Agriculture: Agriculture 0 0 700 700 Humanities & Education 911 2,279 2,368 5,557 Engineering 0 0 1,869 1,869 Law 563 193 51 807 Medical Sciences/Clinical Medicine & Research 185 2,214 1,816 4,214 Pure & Applied Sciences/Sciences and Agricuture: Sciences 1,006 2,344 2,749 6,099 Social Sciences 3,469 4,055 3,988 11,870 Institute of Gender and Development Studies 10 17 17 50 Graduate Studies 0 2 0 3 Special Admittance 44 103 40 192 Total 6,186 10,448 13,596 31,359 Science & Technology % 19 39 52 41 Note: The Science and Technology group includes the Faculties of Sciences and Agriculture, Pure and Applied Sciences, Engineering, Medical Sciences and the School of Clinical Medicine and Research. Table 6: FTE Student Enrolment by Campus, Gender and Programme, 2009/2010 UNIVERSITY CAVE HILL MONA ST AUGUSTINE T M F T M F T M F T M F ON-CAMPUS Undergraduate 1st Degree 25,241 8,362 16,879 5,341 1,712 3,629 9,308 2,796 6,512 10,593 3,854 6,739 Certificate 370 87 283 8 5 3 0 0 0 362 82 280 Diploma 141 34 108 62 18 44 38 11 27 42 5 37 Sub-Total 25,752 8,482 17,269 5,410 1,735 3,675 9,346 2,807 6,539 10,996 3,940 7,056 Graduate Higher Diploma 341 92 249 12 1 12 64 15 49 265 76.5 188.5 Higher Degree 5,075 1,764 3,311 720 243 478 2,059 642 1,417 2,296 879 1,417 Sub-Total 5,416 1,856 3,560 732 243 489 2,123 657 1,466 2,561 956 1,605 Specially Admitted 192 84 108 44 17 28 109 44 65 39 23 16 Total 31,359 10,421 20,937 6,186 1,995 4,192 11,577 3,508 8,069 13,596 4,919 8,677 Postgraduate 16 17 16 12 12 11 18 18 18 17 18 16 Degree % 122 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 123 Table 7: University Enrolment by Campus, Student Status, Gender and Programme, 2009/2010 UNIVERSITY CAVE HILL MONA ST AUGUSTINE OPEN CAMPUS T M F T M F T M F T M F T M F Student Status Full-time 24,039 8,016 16,023 4,030 1,301 2,729 9,488 2,875 6,613 10,521 3,840 6,681 – – – Part-time 14,639 4,798 9,841 4,312 1,389 2,923 4,178 1,266 2,912 6,149 2,143 4,006 – – – Subtotal 38,678 12,814 25,864 8,342 2,690 5,652 13,666 4,141 9,525 16,670 5,983 10,687 – – – Open Campus 5,201 982 4,219 – – – – – – – – – 5,201 982 4,219 Undergraduate 1st Degree 33,498 10,386 23,112 7,118 2,276 4,842 10,258 3,089 7,169 11,629 4,141 7,488 4,493 880 3,613 Associate Degree 645 91 554 – – – – – – – – – 645 91 554 Certificate 654 154 500 10 6 4 0 0 0 633 147 486 11 1 10 Diploma 285 69 216 123 36 87 49 15 34 61 8 53 52 10 42 Subtotal 35,082 10,700 24,382 7,251 2,318 4,933 10,307 3,104 7,203 12,323 4,296 8,027 5,201 982 4,219 Graduate Higher Diploma 475 141 334 13 1 12 114 27 87 345 113 232 3 0 3 Higher Degree 8,090 2,831 5,259 990 336 654 3,061 935 2,126 3,923 1,542 2,381 116 18 98 Sub-Total 8,565 2,972 5,593 1,003 337 666 3,175 962 2,213 4,268 1,655 2,613 119 18 101 Off-Campus 2,438 548 1,890 315 74 241 1,815 323 1,492 308 151 157 – – – Specially Admitted 351 140 211 88 33 55 184 75 109 79 32 47 – – – TOTAL ALL 46,436 14,360 32,076 8,657 2,762 5,895 15,481 4,464 11,017 16,978 6,134 10,844 5,320 1,000 4,320 % Male/Female – 30.9% 69.1% – 31.9% 68.1% – 28.8% 71.2% – 36.1% 63.9% – 18.8% 81.2% THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 124 Table 8: Percentage Distribution of Male and Female Registrations in On-Campus & Open Campus First Degree Programmes by Faculty/School and Campus, 2009/2010 Faculty/School CAVE HILL MONA ST AUGUSTINE OPEN CAMPUS M F M F M F M F % % % % % % % % Science & Agriculture: Agriculture 0 0 0 0 39 61 46 54 Humanities & Education 25 75 25 75 22 78 17 83 Engineering 0 0 0 0 68 32 – – Law 27 73 22 78 20 80 – – Medical Sciences/Clinical Medicine & Research 23 77 23 77 34 66 1 99 Pure & Applied Sciences/Sciences 52 48 43 57 44 56 46 54 Social Sciences 29 71 29 71 24 76 21 79 Total 32 68 30 70 36 64 19 81 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Table 9: Comparison of On-Campus/ Open Campus Enrolment between 2008/2009 and 2009/20010 Campus & Faculty/School 2008/2009 2009/2010 % change CAVE HILL Humanities & Education 1,427 1,397 -2.1 Law 527 611 15.9 Clinical Medicine and Research 174 188 8.0 Pure & Applied Sciences 1,143 1,240 8.5 Social Sciences 4,559 4,893 7.3 Institute of Gender and Development Studies 6 13 116.7 Total 7,836 8,342 6.5 MONA Humanities & Education 2,635 2,882 9.4 Law 62 194 212.9 Medical Sciences 2,086 2,313 10.9 Pure & Applied Sciences 2,260 2,552 12.9 Social Sciences 5,324 5,687 6.8 Institute of Gender and Development Studies 24 34 41.7 Graduate Studies 3 4 33.3 Total 12,394 13,666 10.3 St AUGUSTINE Sciences & Agriculture: Agriculture 925 806 -12.9 Humanities & Education 2,792 3,014 8.0 Engineering 2,252 2,309 2.5 Law 76 51 -32.9 Medical Sciences 1,799 1,984 10.3 Sciences & Agriculture: Sciences 2,664 2,989 12.2 Social Sciences 5,003 5,499 9.9 Institute of Gender and Development Studies 23 18 -21.7 Total 15,534 16,670 7.3 OPEN CAMPUS Sciences & Agriculture: Agriculture 16 13 -18.8 Humanities & Education 1,024 1,192 16.4 Law 0 0 0.0 Medical Sciences 67 98 46.3 Social Sciences 3,931 3,998 1.7 Institute of Gender and Development Studies 34 19 -44.1 Total 5,072 5,320 4.9 UNIVERSITY Humanities & Education 7,878 8,485 7.7 Engineering 2,252 2,309 2.5 Law 665 856 28.7 Medical Sciences/Clinical Medicine & Research 4,126 4,583 11.1 Pure & Applied Sciences/Sciences & Agriculture 7,008 7,600 8.4 Social Sciences 18,817 20,077 6.7 Institute of Gender and Development Studies 53 84 58.5 Graduate Studies 3 4 33.3 Total 40,802 43,998 7.8 125 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 126 Table 10: Total On-Campus Registration of Students by Faculty/School and Country of Origin – 2009/2010 – All Campuses SOCIAL GRADUATE % COUNTRY AGRICULTURE HUMANITIES EDUCATION ENGINEERING LAW MS/CM* PAS/S&A: IGDS TOTAL SCIENCES** SCIENCES STUDIES OF TOTAL Anguilla 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 3 0 0 9 0.0 Antigua & Barbuda 2 18 0 1 7 13 5 91 0 0 137 0.4 Bahamas 2 9 0 2 15 176 24 29 0 0 257 0.7 Barbados 11 1,235 1 95 153 276 1,045 4,292 0 11 7,119 18.4 Belize 0 10 2 5 32 18 10 38 0 0 115 0.3 British Virgin Islands 0 2 0 0 6 16 1 3 0 0 28 0.1 Cayman Islands 0 1 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 7 0.0 Dominica 6 10 0 14 10 21 24 65 0 0 150 0.4 Grenada 3 11 0 8 19 6 9 45 0 0 101 0.3 Guyana 3 10 2 17 7 29 15 55 0 3 141 0.4 Jamaica 16 2,731 6 76 295 1,747 2,372 5,459 4 31 12,737 32.9 Monserrat 1 4 0 1 4 2 1 5 0 0 18 0.0 St Kitts/Nevis 2 10 0 5 13 13 14 48 0 0 105 0.3 St Lucia 11 31 2 18 9 31 37 130 0 0 269 0.7 St Vincent & The Grenadines 4 45 1 15 25 26 98 203 0 0 417 1.1 Trinidad & Tobago 738 1,994 1,016 2,022 246 1,780 3,058 5,470 0 16 16,340 42.2 Turks & Caicos Islands 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 2 0 0 8 0.0 Others 7 130 8 29 14 320 67 141 0 4 720 1.9 Unknown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 All Campuses 806 6,254 1,039 2,309 856 4,485 6,781 16,079 4 65 38,678 100.0 Note: Education figures are included with Humanities at the Mona and Cave Hill Campuses *Medical Sciences/Clinical Medicine & Research **Pure & Applied Sciences/Sciences & Agriculture: Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 Table 11: Number of OECS Students as a Percentage of Total On-Campus Student Population by Campus, 2006/2007 to 2009/2010 COUNTRY 2006– Total % 2007– Total % 2008– Total % 2009– Total % 2007 Students 2008 Students 2009 Students 2010 Students Cave Hill 634 1.9 617 1.8 629 1.8 635 1.6 Mona 205 0.6 182 0.5 167 0.5 200 0.5 St 304 0.9 303 0.9 346 1.0 352 0.9 Augustine Total 1,143 33,140 3.4 1,102 34,483 3.2 1,142 35,764 3.2 1,187 38,678 3.1 Note: The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) comprises the following countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts/Nevis, St Lucia and St Vincent and The Grenadines. Graph 2: UWI On-Campus & Open Campus Student Enrolment by Faculty and Campus, 2009/2010 127 THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/2010 128 Table 12: Total University Enrolment by Campus and Country of Origin, 2009/2010 On Campus Total Cave Hill Mona St Augustine Open Campus Off Campus Total University T M F T M F T M F T M F T M F T M F T M F Anguilla 9 3 6 6 3 3 1 0 1 2 0 2 45 11 36 3 1 2 59 15 44 Antigua & Barbuda 137 37 100 99 23 76 21 8 13 17 6 11 147 24 124 103 21 82 388 82 306 Bahamas 257 87 170 48 21 27 139 48 91 70 18 52 4 1 13 98 33 65 369 121 248 Barbados 7,119 2,372 4,747 6,756 2212 4544 150 48 102 213 112 101 138 19 123 99 16 83 7,360 2,407 4,953 Belize 115 45 70 58 18 40 41 17 24 16 10 6 89 29 64 64 14 50 272 88 184 British Virgin Islands 28 7 21 12 3 9 8 2 6 8 2 6 12 2 10 22 2 20 62 11 51 Cayman Islands 7 4 3 2 1 1 5 3 2 0 0 0 3 0 3 6 1 5 16 5 11 Dominica 150 57 93 90 28 62 19 7 12 41 22 19 322 57 266 83 8 75 556 122 434 Grenada 101 30 71 71 18 53 7 3 4 23 9 14 335 78 271 33 2 31 483 110 373 Guyana 141 64 77 59 28 31 25 9 16 57 27 30 40 7 33 71 50 21 252 121 131 Jamaica 12,737 3,839 8,898 183 52 131 12,377 3692 8685 177 95 82 1,254 253 1,018 1402 258 1144 15,410 4,350 11,060 Monserrat 18 6 12 10 2 8 4 2 2 4 2 2 59 9 51 0 0 0 78 15 63 St Kitts/Nevis 105 47 58 53 21 32 26 14 12 26 12 14 164 32 133 16 2 14 286 81 205 St Lucia 269 87 182 98 32 66 41 9 32 130 46 84 388 67 334 125 23 102 795 177 618 St Vincent & The 417 146 271 245 88 157 61 18 43 111 40 71 244 39 210 23 5 18 689 190 499 Grenadines Trinidad & Tobago 16,340 5,628 10,712 430 90 340 443 130 313 15,467 5,408 10,059 1,561 328 1,278 216 89 127 18,162 6,045 12,117 Turks & Caicos 8 1 7 2 0 2 5 1 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 1 8 Islands Others 720 352 368 120 48 72 293 130 163 307 174 133 151 14 136 73 23 50 943 389 554 Not Defined 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 246 30 217 0 0 0 247 30 217 All Countries 38,678 12,812 25,866 8,342 2688 5654 13,666 4,141 9,525 16,670 5,983 10,687 5,320 1,000 4,320 2,438 548 1,890 46,436 14,360 32,076