(The UWI), Press Release
The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. W.I. Saturday, May 1, 2021 The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is pleased to advise of appointments and reappointments for members of its senior Executive Management approved at its annual business meeting of University Council.
Regarded as the regional university’s highest governing body, the University Council, chaired by Chancellor Robert Bermudez, met virtually on Friday, April 30, 2021. The Council is authorised by The UWI’s Charter and Statutes to review the work of the University together with the audited statement of accounts and makes required appointments of new and returning Executives, Deans and Senior Managers.
Sir Hilary Beckles gets six more years as UWI vice-chancellor
The UWI Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles
The University of the West Indies (UWI) has reappointed Professor Sir Hilary Beckles as vice-chancellor for another six years.
The decision was made by the university council, chaired by chancellor Robert Bermudez, at its virtual annual business meeting on Friday.
In a media release on Saturday, UWI said the new appointments and reappointments of senior executive management, deans and senior manager were in keeping with its charter and statutes and posts take effect from August 1.
Beckles was first appointed in 2015 and was the eighth vice-chancellor of the university. He has 40 years service with UWI as a professor of economic history, pro vice-chancellor for undergraduate studies, and a 13-year tenure as principal of UWI’s Cave Hill campus in Barbados. He is also a United Nations committee official, and global public activist in the field of social justice an
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Professor Clive Landis is the new principal of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Cave Hill Campus, the first non-Caribbean person to hold that post.
This was among the official announcements coming from The UWI on Friday, including the reappointment of Professor Sir Hilary Beckles as the Vice-Chancellor for another six-year period.
Landis, who was serving as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Studies, migrated from Imperial College London in 2004. He succeeds Professor the Most Honourable Violet Eudine Barriteau, who is retiring. Barriteau, who is Grenadian by birth, is among the list of Caribbean heads at Cave Hill, including Leslie Robinson, Sir Sidney Martin, Sir Keith Hunte and Sir Hilary.
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