Creating Value From Our Ideas

Professor Clive Landis Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal The UWI, Cave Hill Campus

As I begin my term as Principal of The UWI, Cave Hill Campus, I wish to acknowledge and thank my predecessor, Professor the Most Honourable Eudine Barriteau for her mentorship in my formative years as Deputy Principal and for her steadfast leadership of the campus during very challenging times. My job has been made easier by the good management of the campus by my predecessors and my senior management team whom I wish to recognise: Deputy Principal, Professor Winston Moore; Registrar, Mr. Rommel Carter; and Bursar, Ms. Lisa Alleyne. Icommend the Cave Hill community for its cohesion and unflinching determination, in recent times, to continue delivering higher education services in the face of truly daunting challenges: a global pandemic, natural disasters, and adverse financial circumstances. I believe the experience in confronting these challenges has cemented the bonds and purpose of the community of students, staff, alumni, retirees, and supporters as we deliver on the campus’s mission to revitalise Caribbean development.

The value of The UWI is well appreciated in society, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, when members of the university community took on prominent roles with ministries and policymakers to help guide and assist the collective response to an unprecedented health threat. I am truly honoured to serve this campus community as Principal.

I am calling on the same sense of purpose and can-do spirit as we embark on the new UWI Strategy Plan 2022-2027, “The Revenue Revolution”. Cave Hill’s Vision within The UWI Strategy is themed “Creating Value From Our Ideas” as we draw upon the deep pools of knowledge and innovation within the campus to create value for society and also for the university itself. This is a time to deploy our best creative thinking across all domains of university life, in teaching, research and outreach. New approaches will be called upon as we seek to enter the international student marketplace, as we develop support systems to translate research ideas into innovation, and as we seek to undertake business opportunities in collaboration with the private sector. This is an exciting time in the evolution of the Cave Hill Campus, and I invite all members of the community to contribute their skills and energy to implement the Medium-term Vision, “Creating Value From Our Ideas”. l