The UWI Open Campus Hosts Annual Council Meeting Online
Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Friday, March 12, 2021 - The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Open Campus 2021 Council Meeting will be hosted online. This is the second consecutive year that the Campus Council meeting is being hosted virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual governance meeting takes place on Friday, March 19, 2021 and starts at 10:00 am Eastern Caribbean time.
The Campus Council is the highest decision-making body of the Campus and will be presided over by Honourable Ambassador Dr June Soomer, Chairman of The UWI Open Campus Council.
Approximately 50 delegates representing ministries of education, The University of the West Indies, UWI Alumni and Guild of Students will be in attendance at the annual Council meeting via online platforms.
The first segment of the morning session will be opened to invited guests, the public and the regional media. This segment will be broadcast live on UWItv and also streamed live online on the Open Campus Facebook and YouTube channels. Honourable Ambassador Dr June Soomer, Chairman of Council; Dr Luz Longsworth, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs and Principal of the Open Campus; and Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The UWI will address the public session.
Dr Longsworth will present the Principal’s Report, a key feature of the Council meeting. Among the accomplishments Dr Longsworth will highlight are the Campus’ agility in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic; The Open Campus assistance to the education sector in the region with transitioning to online; Continued growth in students application numbers; use of innovative virtual events to market the Campus’ programmes; partnerships the Campus has entered into with regional and international agencies, and the Campus’ first virtual graduation.
The meeting will also receive and discuss the Audited Financial Statements, the Audit Committee Report, Student Guild Statement, and The UWI Open Campus Alumni Report. In addition, the meeting will discuss matters relating to outstanding government contributions, reorganization of resource mobilization, The UWI Global Campus, and the Guyana Project.
The Campus will host a press conference following the public session of the meeting.
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- Honourable Ambassador Dr June Soomer, Chairman of Open Campus Council
About The UWI
The UWI has been and continues to be a pivotal force in every aspect of Caribbean development; residing at the centre of all efforts to improve the well-being of people across the region.
From a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948, The UWI is today an internationally respected, global university with approximately 45,000 students and five campuses: Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados, Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda and its Open Campus, and 10 global centres in partnership with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe.
The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Culture, Creative and Performing Arts, Food and Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities and Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, and Sport. As the Caribbean’s leading university, it possesses the largest pool of Caribbean intellect and expertise committed to confronting the critical issues of our region and wider world.
Ranked among the top universities in the world, by the most reputable ranking agency, Times Higher Education, The UWI is the only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists. In 2020, it earned ‘Triple 1st’ rankings—topping the Caribbean; and in the top in the tables for Latin America and the Caribbean, and global Golden Age universities (between 50 and 80 years old). The UWI is also featured among the top universities on THE’s Impact Rankings for its response to the world’s biggest concerns, outlined in the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Good Health and Wellbeing; Gender Equality and Climate Action.
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