January 2011


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Accreditation site visit for Campus

The UWI St. Augustine Campus, in its candidacy for institutional accreditation, has completed a comprehensive self-study and forwarded the report of this exercise to the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT).

The ACTT has since scheduled an external review of the Campus during the period, February 1-4, 2011. During this four-day review, the evaluation team will determine the accuracy and thoroughness of the Campus’ self-study analysis in meeting the minimum threshold of quality against the set criteria and resultant standards established by the ACTT. The evaluation team comprises four reviewers from the United Kingdom, United States and Trinidad and Tobago.

The on-site review will include a tour of the facilities, examination of documents, and interviews with various stakeholders across the Campus, both at St. Augustine and Mt. Hope Medical Sciences Complex. Through the process of institutional self-study, the St. Augustine Campus has compiled a comprehensive database and is in the process of populating its resource room with documents to support references made in its institutional self-study report.

The journey for this exercise, which began almost two years ago, was driven by Mr. Jeremy Callaghan, Campus Registrar & Chair of the Self-Study Steering Committee; Dr. Sandra Gift, the Institutional Self-Study Co-ordinator; Mrs. Deborah Souza-Okpofabri, the Campus Self-Study Co-ordinator. A Self-Study Steering Committee was established together with Six Working Groups. The latter had responsibility for specific areas addressed within the Self-Study Report. The Chairs of the six Working Groups were Prof. Jonas Addae, Mr. Jeremy Callaghan, Dr. Anna-May Edwards-Henry and Dr. Maria Byron, Prof. Patrick Watson, Dr. Sandra Gift and Dr. David Rampersad. The Campus Self-Study Editorial Committee was led by Dr. Paula Morgan, the final editorial reviewer was Prof. Emerita Elsa Leo-Rhynie; the report was proofread by Mrs. Lynda Quamina-Aiyejina. Ms. Jo-Ann Georges continues to lead the exercise for the preparation of the Resource Room.

The staff of the Quality Assurance Unit (Mrs. Alysha Deonanan and Ms. Deniece St. Louis) together with the Research Assistants (Ms. Portia Felix, Mr. Lovell Francis, Ms. Sherron Gibbs, Ms. Kavita Maharaj, Ms. Rhea Dennis, Ms. Onika La Croix and Ms. Stacyann Quintero) provided yeoman service.

The St. Augustine Campus is grateful to our students (particularly the Guild of Students, who participated in focus groups, the findings of which informed the self-study report) and staff, our other Campuses and the Vice-Chancellery, and external stakeholders for their participation, patience and support of this rigorous institutional self-study.