Vice-Chancellor's Report to University Council 2018/2019

Improving the Quality of Teaching, Learning and Student Development Improving the quality of teaching, learning and student development is an underlying goal of the Mona Campus. Efforts are ongoing to improve the ability of staff to transfer knowledge, especially current research, to support the curriculum and instruction in our classrooms. Through our Centre for Excellence and Learning (CETL) and the Health Professionals Education Unit (HPEU) staff are engaged and empowered in instruction delivery. The addition of the Campus Office for Online Learning (COOL) further supports this effort as the Campus moves towards online delivery as a major goal. Fostering a Culture of Research Fostering a Culture of Research is central to our University as it is our reputation in research that separates The UWI from other tertiary institutions. This is our competitive advantage and the very core of who and what we are as a University. This year we have emphasised and reinforced this among our students, staff and partners through incentives and supports that allow for a continued thriving culture of research on the Mona Campus. This is evident in the research outputs of our students, departments and research centres. Plans were put in place for the re-establishment of the Mona Office of Research and Innovation (MORI). MORI stepped up the necessary support measures that will help improve the quality and relevance of research outputs in the coming years.

Table 1. Grant funding data for The UWI Mona Campus

# of Grant Applications

# of Grant Awards

Value of Grant Awards (J$)

Academic Period

Faculty/Other

Engineering

0 1 1 6

0 1 1 4

-

Humanities & Education (FHE)

J$2,565,747.00 J$20,438,752.00 J$49,392,604.00 J$55,441,083.00

Law (FoL)

Medical Sciences (FMS) Science & Technology (FST)

18

12

Aug 2018 - Mar 2019

Sport

0 6 1 1 1 6

0 6

-

Social Sciences (FSS)

J$29,451,625.00

Multi-Disciplinary: FMS-FST

-

-

Multi-Disciplinary: FSS - FHE-IGDS Centre

1 0 4

J$37,701,859.00

Multi-Disciplinary: FSS-FHE

-

Other Total

J$20,580,071.00

41

29

J$215,571,741.00

Restoring Financial Health Restoring financial health was identified as a major priority and selected because of the lack of financial resources on the Campus. The Campus needed to get back to the 2012 point of self-sufficiency and to aim to sustain this for the future. The initiatives taken under this priority gave precedence to areas that are being funded, while also ensuring academic freedoms to pursue innovative research and knowledge making. Grant funding allowed us to bridge the gap between the goals defined by funding institutions and the key outputs required of scholarly research. For the academic period August 2018–March 2019, the above data was recorded for The UWI Mona Campus:

Establishing New Academic/Industry Partnerships Establishing new academic/industry partnerships allows us to provide the research information and data required by industry partners to fuel national development. For the period under review our existing partnerships placed us at the heart of national and regional development, and symbolised our commitment to the belief that universities were not created for themselves but for the communities they serve.

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