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DEAN’S OVERVIEW
The FHE management team for the 2022–2023 academic year was constituted as shown below: Deputy Deans Deputy Dean Education Dr. Therese Ferguson Deputy Dean Humanities Dr. Stanley Griffin Deputy Dean Marketing & Resource Mobilisation Dr. Sonjah Stanley-Niaah Deputy Dean Postgrad Dr. Carmel Roofe Heads and Directors Department of History & Archeology (DOHA) Prof. James Robertson Department of Language, Linguistics & Philosophy (DLLP) Dr. Vivette Milson-Whyte Department of Library & Information Studies (DLIS) Dr. Rosemarie Heath Department of Literatures in English (DLIE) Dr. Rachel Moseley-Wood Department of Modern Languages & Literatures (DMLL) Dr. Teresa Villoria Nolla Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) Dr. Livingston White School of Education (SOE) Dr. Marcia Rainford Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) Dr. Dave Gosse Faculty Committee Chairs Academic Quality Assurance Committee Dr. Sharon Bramwell-Lalor Ethics Prof. Loraine Cook Much appreciation is owed to outgoing team members Deputy Dean Dr. Nicole Plummer, Heads Dr. Enrique Okenve (DOHA), Professor Paulette Ramsay (DMLL), and Dr. Aisha Spencer (Acting, DLIE). Noteworthy is the fact that Professor James Robertson accepted the responsibility to lead the Department of History and Archae- ology in his final year before retirement with much enthusiasm. All department Heads / Directors struggled with understaffing and with the consequences of VMC decisions, which made departments over-reliant on adjuncts where filling of open positions was disallowed, or forced the overburdening of existing staff where the hiring of adjuncts for some (core) courses was disallowed, claiming that these were too small to be taught. While the rationale behind vacancy monitoring is understood, the manner in which the committee’s mandate was handled, including what appeared like a constant resetting of the goal posts, contributed to high stress levels and feelings that the Campus administration was intent on creating a hostile environment for academics. Discussions continued from the preceding academic year on general questions of the Faculty’s structure, programmes, and administrative and academic function- ing. The discussions noted the increasing interdisciplinarity of taught programmes which no longer strictly belong in any one department; the severe understaffing of all departments, exacerbated by the loss of experienced colleagues through
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