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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 3 MARCH 2019
On March 19, 2019, the St Augustine Campus
Council will host its annual meeting.
For the first
time in a decade, it will do so with a new Campus
Council Chair. Ms Sharon Christopher has been
appointed to the post, succeeding former Central Bank
Governor Mr Ewart Williams.
Within a few minutes of her interview with
UWI
Today
, it’s clear why she was offered the post. She
believes in Caribbean institutions - what they are and
what they have the potential to become. She believes
in realising potential. That belief, in fact, is so strong
that Ms Christopher played an integral role in the team
responsible for the transformation of one of Trinidad
and Tobago’s most successful state-owned financial
institutions, First Citizens. It is an outlook, coupled
with experience, from which The UWI can benefit
enormously at this moment in time.
“We have to let people understand the importance
of institutions that aid in national development,”
she says, “the importance of understanding that
who we are is critical to our success. We must never
feel ashamed of what we are but we must also work
constantly to be better.”
It’s a resounding message for a university, and a
region, facing many challenges - financial constraints,
increasing international competition, and questions of
relevance in the modern age. Those are the challenges
with which the Campus Council, a governing body
made up of senior campus administrators, staff
representatives, members of the Guild of Students,
representatives of the academic boards of the other
campuses, alumni and several other stakeholders,
grapple in the annual meeting.
New Campus Council Chair
Sharon Christopher
knows The UWI can succeed
Our Institution...
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OUR CAMPUS
“We have to let people understand the importance of institutions that aid in national
development... the importance of understanding that who we are is critical to our success.
We must never feel ashamed of what we are but we must also work constantly to be better.”
Ms Christopher has already begun to prepare:
“I did attend my first meeting with the Finance
and General Purposes Committee and I have been
reviewing many of the documents related to the
governance of the university…. I’m just getting my
feet wet. I suppose a lot of my work will be around
attending meetings and providing guidance.”
An attorney-at-law, leadership development
coach , motivational speaker, and founder and CEO of
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