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St. Augustine UWI Campus. The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, [3] [4] is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands ...
The Open Campus was established to improve services to the non-campus territories. [4] [5] It brought together several existing UWI units, namely the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC), the School of Continuing Studies (originally the Extra Mural Department), the Tertiary Level Institutions Unit, and the Office of the Board for Non-Campus Countries & Distance ...
Chapel on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, on the left Aqueduct from the former sugar plantation. In 1948, the Mona campus was established as a college of the University of London. [10] It is the first campus of the multi-campus University of the West Indies system. In October 1948, it accepted 33 medical students.
The Alma Jordan Library [1] at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago, was named after UWI librarian Dr. Alma Jordan in 2012. [2] [3] The four-storied library is located on the St. Augustine Campus of the UWI. It is the largest of the libraries in the St Augustine Campus libraries network, with approximately 600,000 ...
Daphne Rowena Douglas CD (26 September 1924 – April 2024) was a Jamaican librarian, academic and public servant. She was the first Jamaican woman to become a professor at the University of the West Indies, where she was head of the Department of the Library Studies, and later served as chairman of the National Library of Jamaica from 1997 to 2011.
Dunn taught courses on disaster risk management, gender and climate change at the University of the West Indies (UWI), where she also focused on gender equity in governance and leadership, human trafficking, human rights, trade and tourism, labour, and health. [1] She was the head of UWI's Mona Unit. [3]
Carolyn Cooper CD (born 20 November 1950) [1] is a Jamaican author, essayist and literary scholar. She is a former professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
She worked as an assistant librarian, taking a job in the library of the University of the West Indies at Mona. [2] Her talents as a singer led to her recording her first single, "Love My Life" for Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation (JBC radio) DJ Jerry Lewis, who was the boyfriend of one of Cadogan's school friends.