UWI CAMPUS Reports at a GlancE
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• Staff across the Campus were trained to ensure that they could effectively execute their roles, given the restrictions in place to mitigate the risks of COVID-19. This critical aspect of the performance of the Campus through trying times exemplifies a Smart Campus – one that balances the deployment of technology with improving the skillsets of its human resources needed to maximise its use to guarantee the survival of the Campus.
• As the Campus continued to strengthen its research agenda, many Faculties, Departments and Centres successfully pursued grant funding, and were major contributors to this agenda. Examples include: George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre (GA- CDRC) o Intervention Co-creation to Improve Community-based Food Production and Household Nutrition in Small Island Developing States (Total grant funding of GBP 990,806, with GBP 206,672 coming to The UWI).
The sustained efforts of the Smart Campus Initiative proved invaluable in the year under review. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of 2020 set the stage for the Cave Hill Campus to respond with resilience to the pending challenges. The sound foundation of that response was already laid, and the Campus ensured that its modern ICT systems were implemented. These systems and their use were exemplified by effective use of the Microsoft Office 365 platform to create a virtual work environment to allow the administration of the Campus to continue functioning even during the island-wide lockdown, as part of Government’s response to the threat of COVID-19. Some key examples of Office 365 applications used included: o Teams to create virtual spaces for business meetings and meetings with students o SharePoint and OneDrive to provide secure access to required documents o Forms to collect feedback from students and staff o Bookings to facilitate the scheduling of meetings with students o Power Apps to create custom applications, such as an application to collect COVID-19 contact tracing information as required in the fight against the spread of the virus • With the shift to emergency remote course delivery and assessment in the second semester, the Campus’ learning management systems, Moodle and Blackboard Collaborate were tailored to accommodate the much higher demand for online delivery that was expected of the systems.
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Progress was also made during the year in the development of key systems designed to improve their respective processes. These included:
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Strengthening capacity to tackle Non- Communicable Disease (NCD) in the Caribbean (CAD 298,000)
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Human Resources Performance Management System Enhanced Postgraduate Admission Process Health and Safety Information Management System
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Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) o Adapting to a New Reality: Managing Responses to Influxes of Sargassum Seaweed in the Eastern Caribbean as Ecosystem Hazards and Opportunities (USD 981,393)
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Shuttle Management System
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A significant new initiative was the expansion of the Faculty of Law’s LLM programme with the commencement of its double degree programme with the University of Leuphana, based in Lüneburg, Germany.
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Climate Change and Poverty Nexus for Enhancing Resilient Fisheries Livelihoods and Food Security in Barbados, Dominica and St. Kitts and Nevis (BBD 265,896) Services Towards Regional Implementation of the Climate Change Adaptation of the Fisheries Sector in the Eastern Caribbean Project (BBD 293,976) The Nature Conservancy: Conservation Partnership Agreement (USD 494,500)
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