ANNUAL REPORT 2021/22
I thank my predecessor, Professor Brian Copeland, for his six years of service at the helm, steering our campus through some of the roughest waters it has ever experienced. Despite the challenges, he was able to continue the admirable growth of a culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on the campus
We will deepen the symbiotic relationship between academia and private sector endeavour; and seek investment partners while more actively supporting the developmental agenda and priorities of our own government and regional governments. In that regard, we are exploring opportunities with Guyana to deepen ties and support that country’s tertiary educational thrust—an engagement that could result in considerable revenue generation to the University. A key item on the regional agenda is food security. The St Augustine Campus is the only campus that has a Faculty of Food & Agriculture and deserves special attention. This Faculty, which traces its roots to the early 20 th century, is bursting with knowledge, expertise, and experience. Accordingly, we have much to offer to ensure that our region achieves food sustainability. I bring to the table my own belief that our scholarship must fuel advocacy and development and advance humanity. Intangibles such as positive values, fairness, character, intellect, integrity, service, courage, and what we today call Social Justice, must be at the centre of what we do at the St. Augustine Campus, and as we continue to develop as an entrepreneurial campus, we must include social entrepreneurship. Daily we experience the negative effects of our failure to secure equity, decent work, or to protect the vulnerable and marginalised. In one way or another, this impacts our productivity, our safety, our families, our national economies; the inability to adequately address natural disasters, and generally, our quality of life. After every horror splashed across the front pages, we throw up our collective hands and call for change—and just as quickly, we lower them and return to our old habits set for decades if not centuries.
New Campus Principal, Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine sharing a light moment at the 2022 graduation with her predecessor, Emeritus Professor Brian Copeland. Professor Antoine’s appointment began on 1 August 2022.
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