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PVC and Principal's Office
● Marketing and Communications Department repositioned to Office of the Principal
● Establishment of SDEC Project Management Unit
● Establishment of Special Initiatives Manager position
● Re-Establishment of Research Ethics Committee
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CSDR
● Re-establishment of the Human Resource Development Unit, CSDR
● Renaming of the Social Welfare Training Centre to the Social Work
Training and Research Centre and the Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Institute to Hugh Shearer Labour Studies Institute
External Relations and Inter and Intra Institutional Collaborations
● The External Relations and Inter and Intra Institutional Collaborations
(ERIIC) Unit moved to Vice-Chancellery to reflect its University-wide function.
Establishment of Business Development Unit
The Open Campus established a Business Development Unit (BDU) that became operational on 1st August 2015. The overarching goal of the BDU as outlined in the Proposal for establishing a Business Development Office in the \[The\] UWI Open Campus is to:
Focus the Open Campus’s efforts in attaining financial sustainability by optimising its academic and administrative resources to ensure increased revenue generation from multiple sources including partnerships with stakeholders across The UWI campuses as well as with the private and public sectors regionally and internationally (Undated, p. 2).