DISCOURSE
CELEBRATING 60 YEARS AS A CAMPUS
T he Cave Hill Campus is in celebratory mood! In this Issue of CHILL Magazine , the campus community is seen ‘shining like a diamond’ as we celebrate a year-long series of events marking our 60 th Anniversary as a UWI campus. Coincidentally, The University of the West Indies as an institution is marking its own diamond jubilee, the 75 th Anniversary. The full calendar of 60 th Anniversary activities, which focus on community outreach events, may be viewed at www.cavehill.uwi.edu/ diamondjubilee/events.aspx . At the first graduation ceremony to take place on the site of the new Cave Hill Campus in 1968, Prime Minister The Honourable Errol Barrow spoke these words: “It is of the utmost importance that our statesmen and scholars, students and scientists should all realise that a university institution cannot survive unless it has as its constant goal service to the communities which support and sustain its activities.” This invocation forms the basis of our developmental
This current issue of CHILL is packed with examples in which our staff, students and alumni are creating value in society, whether that is in shaping the constitutional framework of our new Republic, helping to revise Caribbean educational practices, legal activism to tackle the NCD crisis, as the first international member of the SlaveVoyages consortium, or collaborating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to create a database for assisting Barbadian citizens during their travels overseas. These and many more activities by our students, staff and alumni, chronicled in this issue of CHILL, give meaning to the Cave Hill strategy: “Creating Value From Our Ideas” as we live up to the legacy of our founding fathers to create a public university that is active within the communities that sustain it. l
Professor Clive Landis Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal The UWI, Cave Hill Campus
of Barbados and the Caribbean Region. We have done so not only by graduating over 40,000 students with accredited undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, diplomas, and certificates but also by sharing our research and technical expertise at multiple levels of society, serving on national committees, boards, commissions, development agencies, and as delegates, often at the behest of CARICOM, on international policy and trade meetings. This commitment to add value in society is encapsulated in the five-year strategy for the campus, which is themed “Creating Value From Our Ideas” , as we translate our research and ideas to create value in society but also create value for the university itself through entrepreneurial income generation.
mission at The UWI, Cave Hill to help drive the development
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