ST. AUGUSTINE CAMPUS TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal The UWI, St Augustine Campus
most valuable resources of The UWI: the alumni. The year was also one of celebration as the Campus joined in celebrating The University’s 75 th anniversary.
The academic year 2022/2023 marked the first year after the COVID-19 pandemic when the St. Augustine Campus resumed full face-to-face operations. It was also the first year of implementing Phase II of The University of the West Indies’ (The UWI’s) strategic plan, covering the period 2022–2027. This phase emphasises creating a “Revenue Revolution”. However, the St. Augustine Campus has long recognised the need for a degree of self-sufficiency. This need has become more critical post- pandemic due to declining government subventions, higher operational costs, and stagnant tuition fees for the past two decades. As such, during this review period, the Campus laid the groundwork for three major revenue-generating projects, two of which are based on proven excellence in teaching and research, and undertook initiatives to boost earnings from existing academic programmes. The third involves one of the
Campus Principal Formally Inducted
On January 21, 2023 at the Daaga Auditorium, the St. Augustine Campus held an induction ceremony for the Campus’ tenth Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal, Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine. Professor Antoine, whose theme for her induction was “Together We Can Create The Change”, challenged her colleagues to “be proactive, thought-leaders and problem solvers” and to take their scholarship to the people, saying that, “It is then that our research, our teaching, will be grounded and transformative.” Always with a keen eye on the societal impact of research, Professor Antoine in her speech promised to
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