OPEN CAMPUS REPORT
Consortium for Social Development and Research (CSDR)
2022 and was scheduled to end in December 2022, was extended until April 2023.
AGILITY New externally funded special projects
The CSDR was engaged in significant special project activities for the academic year. One such project was the UNICEF-MOHW Mental Health Chatline, which took place within the Caribbean Child Development Centre. Funded by UNICEF with a value of US$181,522, the goal of this project was to establish and operationalize a text-in mental health chat line to provide mental/emotional health services to adolescents and an uptake study of user feedback on the service provided. The project began in November 2020 and was scheduled to end in December 2022, but was extended to May 2024 with an additional US$105,859 in funding. Another notable project was the Caribbean Youth Fellowship Programme Monitoring and Evaluation Component, which took place within the Social Work Training Research Centre. This project, valued at US$70,000, began in April 2023 and ended in November 2023. The focus of this project was to prepare 100 youths from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago for effective leadership through training and exposure to policy development and advocacy; governance structures and analysis; and community engagement initiatives. The programme monitoring and evaluation activities include the development of quantitative and qualitative instruments, collection and analysis of data such as base, mid and end line assessments, course feedback forms, interviews, and preparation of reports for the funder, the International Republican Institute.
Office of Alumni Relations
As the Campus focused on the second phase of The UWI Triple A Strategy, it has continued to seek opportunities to use IT technology, online courses, training workshops and other methods of producing revenue in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the onset of the Revenue Revolution. During the period August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023, eleven new externally financed projects with a total value of US$4,000,448 were supervised by twelve staff members under the auspices of the divisions (BDU, CPEC, APAD, OCCS, CCDC, CATS, WAND, etc.), all of which were actively engaged in revenue-generating activities.
Cognisant that building long-lasting relationships with the alumni starts with current students, the Open Campus Alumni Office worked closely with the Institutional Advancement Division to provide scholarships for students in need. Further, the alumni gave of their time and expertise to assist programmes that enhanced the student experience. The Alumni Association utilised e-mentorship, the alumni engagement programme, the alumni outreach programme, and close engagement with students from the time of orientation to graduation and beyond, as means to foster relevant and value-added relationships. Towards the foregoing end, it also promoted the “One UWI, One Alumni Family” by training of the Five Islands Campus UWI STAT and revitalisation of Antigua and Barbuda Chapter. All UWI Alumni Chapters continued to be active in their respective countries through constant recruitment and outreach projects. Their country-specific efforts, supported by Site Heads, were the building blocks to fostering long-lasting relationships with the alumni from all across the region. Two examples of country-specific efforts include the Pop-Up Raffle and Networking Fundraiser on April 14, 2023 in Anguilla to raise funds for the Julian R. Harrigan Memorial Scholarship, and the Pelican Saturday Market organised by The UWIAA Belize Chapter, which continues to be a successful alumni and wider community engagement programme, where vendors donate 5% of their sales to The UWI Open Giving Scholarship Fund.
Consortium for Social Development and Research (CSDR)
The Human Resources Department
During the academic year the Campus moved with alacrity to fulfil the requirements of the Caribbean Development Bank in order to acquire a grant to aid in the proposed Rightsizing Strategy as mandated by The UF&GPC. While the Campus completed its requirements in a timely manner, the processes within the CDB moved slowly and as a result, the Open Campus at the end of the academic year was still awaiting final approval and sign-off from the Bank. In the interim, the HR Department met with the leadership and staff of various departments such as APAD, CSDR, GSR, OCLIS, Registry, Office of the Principal and the Office of Finance to sensitise and assist them in preparing for the commencement of the consultancy,
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