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DONATIONS TO THE FACULTY
Donations in support of Teaching and Learning This is our 75 th Anniversary year of The UWI and we have marked this milestone with several events and conferences. An initiative from the Faculty for this 75 th Anniversary year is to actively reach out to our Alumni to be engaged in mentoring as well as providing financial support. The level of expansion in departments and enrolment to our Faculty carries with it obligations because teaching methodologies, student assessment and learning techniques have undergone significant trans- formation. A ready access to computers and simulation resources are important adjuncts to learning in modern, forward-looking academies. Our ability to fulfill the current expectations and demands for our students in areas of modern technologies is falling short because, despite having a 200-station computer laboratory, presently we have only 50 devices. This causes problems, because sourcing computers for the everyday activities of teaching and learning sometimes is challenging, as other faculties and departments do not always have instruments to share.
Re-equipping the Computer Lab and restoring our simulation stations is an expensive exercise for which we need financial help to complete and so we have approached our alumni to donate to helping us purchase 150 computers costing approximately USD 160,500 and acquire simulation equipment (at an additional cost of USD 150, 000.00). Executive Vice-President, Scotiabank Caribbean, Central America and Uruguay, Visits FMS
Dr. Tameka Stephenson (Class of 2016) and Minerva Thame (Dean, FMS)
On Friday, March 10, 2023, The Campus Principal – Prof. Dale Webber, Dean Minerva Thame, Deputy Dean – Dr. Annette Crawford Sykes, together with the Institutional Advancement Division, met with Ms. Anya Schnoor, Executive Vice President, Scotiabank Caribbean, Central America and Uruguay, and Chairperson of Scotiabank Jamaica and members of her executive team for a courtesy visit and tour of the Faculty. In addition to the courtesy visit, a formal handover of The UWI Toronto Scotiabank Award to approximately 15 recipients was done.
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