The UWI Global Campus to host its 2025 Annual Report Presentation and Council Meeting Virtually

Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Wednesday March 19, 2025 ― The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Global Campus will host its 2025 Annual Report Presentation and Council Meeting virtually on Friday, March 21, 2025, at 10:00 am Eastern Caribbean time.

As is customary, the meeting will be presided over by the Chair of The UWI Global Campus Council, Honourable Ambassador Dr June Soomer. Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The UWI Global Campus, Dr Francis O. Severin, Deputy Principal, Dr Emily Dick-Forde, and other members of the Global Campus Senior Management Team (GCSMT) will address the public session of the meeting.

Representatives from the ministries of education across the Region, The University of the West Indies, The UWI Alumni Association, and the Guild of Students, are expected to attend the Council meeting via the Zoom online platform.
The public session will be accessible to specially invited guests, the public and the Regional media, and will be broadcast live via www.uwitv.global, UWItv’s FLOW EVO Cable Channels and the BLUU Mobile App.

The main presentation will be the Principal’s Annual Report, themed The Legacy Continues: Forging New Pathways for Global Success. Dr Severin will highlight the accomplishments of the Campus for the 2023/2024 Academic Year and speak to how the Campus has remained consistent in its philosophy of “leaving no one behind”, while actively fulfilling the “mandate of the people”.

The closed session of the meeting will also receive and discuss the Audited Financial Statements, the Audit Committee Report, Student Guild Statement, and The UWI Global Campus Alumni Report. In addition, the meeting will discuss how the Campus is mobilising its resources to continue its commitment of providing quality higher education to the people of the Caribbean Region, while forging new pathways in the global education landscape.
Following the public presentations, the Regional media will be invited to pose questions.

Dr Francis O Severin, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal The UWI Global Campus

Honourable Ambassador Dr June Soomer, Chair of The UWI Global Campus Council

About The University of the West Indies

The UWI has been and continues to be a pivotal force in every aspect of Caribbean development, residing at the center of all efforts to improve the well-being of people across the region for over 75 years. From a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948, The UWI is today an internationally respected, global university with nearly 50,000 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 Global Campus, and global centres in partnership with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

The UWI offers over 1000 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 the wider world.

The UWI has been consistently ranked among the best in the world by the most reputable ranking agency, Times Higher Education (THE). Since The UWI’s 2018 debut in THE’s rankings, it has performed well in multiple schemes—among them including World University Rankings, Golden Age University Rankings (between 50 and 80 years old), Latin America Rankings, and the 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 Well-being; Gender Equality and Climate Action.

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