Cave Hill Campus – Barbados
Faculty of Medical Sciences New MSc Nursing Programme Offered
• The Human Resources Section has introduced a fully electronic leave request and approval process as well as enhanced the scheduling of optical and medical examinations for staff. The Bursary is in the process of developing and testing a system for electronic submission of invoices and petty cash statements. The Registrar’s Office has developed and rolled out the Campus Calendar – based on Office 365. This calendar allows the Campus community to be kept up to date on key meetings and events scheduled on the Campus, fostering better awareness and engagement within the community. • Partnering with mobile payments solutions provider Bitt Inc., the University Bookshop at Cave Hill has implemented the mMoney mobile payment facility, allowing internal and external stakeholders to use the mMoney cashless payment option to conduct transactions. Curriculum Renewal Faculty of Law: New Double Degrees Introduced The Faculty created two double postgraduate degrees in the reporting period. This was a major accomplishment for the Faculty, which pioneered both degrees and steered them through to completion. The LLM-EMBA with the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management (SCHSBM), and the LLM degree with Leuphana University became the first two double degrees devised specifically to integrate seamlessly into existing programmes. As a result, these double degrees should generate no additional costs, but create additional revenue for the Campus.
Smart Campus Initiative: Upgrade of ICT Infrastructure
The Master of Science in Nursing (MScN) programme commenced in the academic year 2018/2019 with specialisations in Education and Administration. The programme is coordinated by Dr. Wendy Sealy, former Chief Nursing Officer with the Ministry of Health, Barbados. The taught curriculum was adapted from the Mona Campus. The MScN students took classes with the MPH students for mandatory quantitative and qualitative research courses, which served to strengthen cross- fertilisation across the Faculty. Navigating the Future Activities of the past year demonstrate the Cave Hill Campus’ commitment to harnessing information technology to transform the delivery of higher education including all services, facilities, administrative processes and pedagogical strategies. It is envisaged that in the coming academic year, the Campus will seek to deepen existing collaborations with its local, regional and international partners while at the same time building new relationships. In keeping with its internationalisation agenda, efforts will be concentrated on penetrating new regional and international markets while maintaining the best quality assurance standards for all stakeholders. Continuous enhancement of the learning environment is also envisaged through continuous curriculum revision and enhancement, and the maintenance of sound quality assurance practices.
As previously reported, the Smart Campus Initiative (SCI) has been adopted by the Campus as one of two main strategic themes and over the past year, Cave Hill has continued to invest in its technology upgrade in keeping with the strategic goals of Access and Agility . In addition to the deployment of Office 365, the Campus continued to work on internet access improvement, the upgrade of classroom technology and the migration of IT services to the cloud. As a result of the technology upgrades in the past year, departments across the Campus were using technology not only to enhance programme delivery but for deeper collaboration on projects using collaborative tools such as Microsoft Sharepoint, Teams and Power Apps. The Office of Student Affairs – Examinations is pioneering the use of electronic scanning of student identification cards to permit entry of students into examination rooms. This eliminates the need to print examination cards, resulting in significant savings in time and reduction of resources. • The Banner System, which is used to manage student and finance operations on the Campus, is being upgraded from Banner 8 to Banner 9. In August 2019, the system was migrated to a cloud platform, greatly improving the resilience of the system and also providing improvements in performance. Banner 9 administrative functionality is expected to go live as of November 15, 2019. Some highlights of the year include: •
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