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UWI Vice-Chancellor appoints Special Advisor in Resource Development

For Release Upon Receipt - September 13, 2013

St. Augustine


   

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad & Tobago – The Vice-Chancellor, Professor E. Nigel Harris, has announced the appointment of Ms Minna Israel, Chair of the Board and Distinguished Business Fellow of The UWI Mona School of Business and Management, as Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor on Resource Development. 

For several years, The UWI been grappling with the need to diversify its financial resource base and decrease its dependence on government contributions. Accordingly, increased efforts have been focussed on enhancing fund-raising, including through its extensive network of alumni, raising the profile of the institution internationally and making strategic linkages with donor agencies and research institutions. One imperative to make such efforts both successful and sustainable is to coordinate the initiatives by the several arms of a complex institution such as The UWI.  

Ms Israel’s primary responsibility will therefore be to coordinate the actions of the campus teams, the endowment foundations, alumni associations and supportive foundations based in the USA, Canada and the UK as well as to advise the Vice-Chancellor and the Executive Management team on matters related to resource development. She is expected to oversee the three-pronged institutional advancement functions of fund-raising, alumni relations and Marketing and Communications, working with the teams engaged in those functions at The UWI Regional Headquarters and in the campuses. 

Ms Israel, who has had a distinguished career in the financial sector both in Jamaica and regionally, will operate out of the Vice-Chancellery.  Her appointment, which took effect on September 2, 2013, is for two years in the first instance.

For further information please contact The Office of Administration, UWI Regional Headquarters at (876) 977-2407 ext. 272 

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences. 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.) 

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