Pictured above (L–R) at a Principal-hosted celebration function: Richard Saunders - Campus Registrar; Patricia Harrison - Campus Bursar; Errol Simms - Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences;
Professor Rhoda Reddock - Deputy Campus Principal; Professor Clement Sankat - Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal; Professor Funso Aiyejina - Professor Emeritus, Department of Literary, Cultural & Communication Studies;
Jennifer Joseph - University & Campus Librarian; Professor Samuel Ramsewak - Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences and Professor Brian Copeland, Dean - Faculty of Engineering.
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The Campus Principal held a farewell
and celebratory function for
outgoing deans and senior administrative staff. The Campus Bursar and
Deans Simms, Aiyejina, (who demitted the Dean’s office since last August)
Ramsewak and Copeland are outgoing; new Deans took office from 1
August. For more on the new deans
see page 4.
Meanwhile, here are brief overviews of those senior members of staff
demitting office:
Joy PatriciaHarrison
is a Jamaican national who held the position of
Campus Bursar for two years. She is however, no stranger toThe University
of the West Indies, having spent 18 years at the Vice Chancellery (Office of
Finance) at the Mona Campus, three years of which were in the position
of Deputy Chief Financial Officer. She is a fellow of the Association of
Certified Chartered Accountants and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Jamaica.
Errol Simms
held the office of Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences
for a three-year term from 1 August 2012. Simms is a Senior Lecturer in
Marketing and International Business in the Department of Management
Studies, The UWI, St. Augustine. Prior to academia, he worked in the
private sector in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago in senior managerial
and marketing positions.
Professor Funso Aiyejina
is a Nigerian poet, short story writer,
playwright and the former Dean of Humanities and Education (until
August 2014). His collection of short fiction, The Legend of the Rockhills
and Other Stories, won the 2000 CommonwealthWriters’ Prize, Best First
Book (Africa). He taught for more than a decade at Obafemi Awolowo
University, and since 1990 at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad
& Tobago. Aiyejina was appointed Professor Emeritus, Department of
Literary, Cultural & Communication Studies in February 2015.
Professor Samuel Ramsawak
held the office of Dean of the Faculty
of Medical Sciences since 2007. He led the Faculty’s 25th anniversary
celebration in April this year. Ramsawak started his long and storied career
at a doctor at Mt HopeMaternity in 1984. In 1991 he joined the Faculty and
from the position of Senior Lecturer he was appointed to Professor in 2001.
He subsequently became Head of the Department of Surgical Sciences; held
two terms as Head of Department; Deputy Dean and then Dean in 2007.
Professor Brian Copeland
joined the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering in 1981 and held the position of Dean of the
Faculty of Engineering from 2007. Among the many distinctions of his
professional career, he was a joint recipient, along with the G-Pan team,
of a Chaconia Medal Gold – one of Trinidad and Tobago’s highest national
awards. He has also received the UWI Guardian Life Premium Teaching
Award (November 2002) and the BP/AMOCOFellowshipAward for Senior
Academic Staff at The UWI (January 2001).
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