ANNUAL REPORT 2021/22
Anniversaries A Century of Agricultural Research
New Public Orator and New Dean
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw , Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing in the Faculty of Humanities & Education was appointed the new Public Orator at The UWI St
The West Indies Agricultural College was founded on 30 August 1921 and was renamed the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA), the precursor to the Faculty of Agriculture (later the Faculty of Food &
Agriculture or FFA), in 1924. In 1960, ICTA became known as the University College of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus. To celebrate this
Augustine Campus. Her appointment, effective 1 August 2021 is for a period of three years. She succeeds Professor Christine Carrington who served as Public Orator from 2017 to 2020. At The UWI, the Public Orator at each campus researches and writes the citations for the Honorary Graduands and presents them to University Chancellor, Mr Robert Bermudez at the St Augustine graduation ceremonies. Professor Walcott-Hackshaw has written and co-edited eight books, several scholarly essays and articles, as well as creative works. She was also appointed Dean of the Faculty of Humanities & Education in April 2022, replacing Dr Heather Cateau with effect from August of that year. Bocas Lit Festival Awards Emeritus Professor Funso Aiyejina and Dr Merle Hodge were both awarded the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters. According to Bocas organisers, both “have played an unmistakable role in shaping the region’s literary landscape” with bodies of work that span borders and decades. Emeritus Professor Aijyejina was instrumental in the establishment of the creative writing MFA (Master of Fine Arts) programme at the St Augustine Campus — the first degree- granting programme in Creative Writing in the English-official Caribbean. Dr Merle Hodge is author of the 1970 classic Crick Crack, Monkey , among other novels, and is a retired lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities & Education, St Augustine Campus.
hundred-year-old legacy of teaching, learning, research and innovation, the FFA held a virtual panel discussion and a virtual two-day conference (in keeping with COVID-19 restrictions in place at the time). Three hundred people as well as organisations from the Caribbean, North America, South America and Europe registered for the conference. The Faculty also produced a special issue of the Journal of Tropical Agriculture , and chronicled the Campus’s contribution to local and regional agriculture in a newspaper supplement. Five tree- planting ceremonies were held where sponsors, donors and other participants planted a total of 139 trees representing 28 species. Thirty-nine trees were planted at The UWI, St Augustine Main Campus and 100 trees at the University Field Station.
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