SUNDAY 3RD AUGUST, 2014 – UWI TODAY
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The Council of The University of the West
Indies (UWI)
, at its annual business session
held in Nassau, the Bahamas, on Friday
April 25, approved the recommendation
for reappointment of Professor Rhoda
Reddock as Deputy Principal of The UWI,
St. Augustine Campus, for an additional two
years, up to September 31, 2016.
Professor Reddock is a Professor of
Gender and Development, and has been
Deputy Principal at the St. AugustineCampus
since August 2008. She holds a Bachelor of
Science in Social Administration from The
UWI, a Master of Development Studies
from the Institute of Social Studies, The
Hague, and a Doctorate in Social Sciences
(Applied Sociology) from the University of
Amsterdam. She began her academic career
as a Lecturer at Cipriani Labour College
from 1976 to 1978, and moved on to the
post of Associate Lecturer at the Institute of
Social Studies,The Hague from1979 to 1982.
Professor Reddock’s career atTheUWI began
in 1985, when she became a research fellow
at the Institute for Social and Economic
Research, UWI St. Augustine Campus,
and then a lecturer in the Department of
Sociology in 1990.
Actively involved in the process leading
up to the institutionalisation of gender
studies at The UWI, she was the Head of
the Centre for Gender and Development
Studies (now the Institute for Gender and
Development Studies) at the St. Augustine
Campus from1994 to 2008. Her publications
include seven books (two award-winning),
three monographs, four special journal
issues and over fifty peer-reviewed articles
and book chapters.
Professor Reddock’s research has
been interdisciplinary, and reflects her
commitment to mu lt i-dis ciplinar y
collaboration with colleagues. A concern
with social justice has been a core theme in
her work. Her first, academic publication,
“Prison Education in Jamaica”, published
in 1976, was the result of a year-long,
undergraduate, research exercise in two
Jamaican prisons. Her focus then shifted
to work, labour and women’s social and
political history, as reflected in her master’s
and doctoral research. Since then, her
research output has revolved around the
themes of gender, ethnicity and nationalism,
masculinities, sexualities, women and social
movements, and environmental studies.
She is the recipient of various awards,
including the UWI Vice Chancellor’s Award
for All-Round Excellence in Teaching and
Administration, Research and Public Service
in 2001, the Seventh CARICOM Triennial
Award for Women in 2002 and the US
Department of State International Woman
of Courage Award 2008.
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Keeping Our Quality High
FROM the Principal
An important aspect
ofmanaging an institution
is ensuring that standards are maintained, even
as you expand, meet stakeholder expectations
and try to improve the current standings
with each passing day. For The UWI, self-
study, internal and external quality reviews
and national, regional and international
accreditation are drivers for our continuing
quest for quality improvements. In this regard,
accreditation bodies (and the reviews we
steadily undertake), should not be perceived as an intrusion into internal
operations. Rather, they are paragons of excellence, equipped with the
measuring and evaluating tools to help organizations locate themselves
along their development paths and ensure that they are keeping abreast
of the targets set for them, both internally and by market standards.
Earlier this year, the St. Augustine Campus hosted a mid-term review
site visit by the AccreditationCouncil of Trinidad andTobago (ACTT). Just
over 100 members of staff were interviewed as the evaluation team sought
independent perspectives about what they see as progress being made in
the focused areas and how the institution might be addressing quality
improvements. The focused areas included staff and space allocations;
inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary teaching and research; the tension
of teaching versus research; student learning, assessment and evaluation;
the continuumof learning modes (blended learning developments); non-
academic operational quality; and new sites and developments.
The ACTT concluded that the UWI St. Augustine Campus had
shown enough evidence of development work in the areas that had been
recommended when the Campus was the subject of a very comprehensive
accreditation exercise in 2011 and that the Campus was on the path
towards reaccreditation in 2017.
We are indeed pleased to know that our efforts at maintaining high
standards are meeting the approval of our national accreditation body.
At the same time, we are also mindful that as we continue to grow and
respond to the demands of our students and stakeholders, our university
must continue to raise the bar and ensure that high quality is always
synonymous with our UWI brand.
Clement K. Sankat
Pro Vice Chancellor & Principal
OUR CAMPUS
Professor
Reddock
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