The College of the West Indies (UWI) World Campus (previously Open Campus) lately held the Digital Induction Ceremony for the fifth cohort of its UWI Pupil Right now Alumni Tomorrow (UWI STAT) Ambassadors.
At this ceremony, 9 college students from 4 nations throughout the Area had been inducted as UWI STAT Ambassadors. The 2023 UWI STAT Ambassadors are Georgeta Barton-Williams – Jamaica; St. Luke Le Blanc – Dominica; Zillda Martineau – Trinidad & Tobago; Alexia McGee – Jamaica; Candece Palmer – Jamaica; Christianna Paul – Dominica; Odane Reid – Jamaica; Yamine Trotman – Trinidad & Tobago; and Olson Browne – World Campus Guild President, from Antigua & Barbuda.
The UWI STAT Ambassadors are the Vice-Chancellor’s Pupil Representatives on all 5 UWI Campuses. This programme gives college students with alternatives to combine with fellow Caribbean and worldwide college students, and likewise encourages the event of management expertise and gives them with different experiences to boost their schooling.
The foregoing is completed by way of their involvement in campus, neighborhood and alumni actions. The primary goals of The UWI STAT Ambassadors Corps are to advertise UWI; foster “Pelican Pleasure” and loyalty to Alma Mater, encourage Caribbean integration and the CARICOM Single Market and Economic system (CSME); promote HIV/AIDS prevention within the Caribbean; and promote Catastrophe Mitigation and Local weather Change Resilience.
Dr Francis O. Severin, Professional Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The UWI World Campus, in presenting the function handle on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, emphasised the function of the Ambassadors which, he counselled, should be taken very severely.
“It’s a substantial and important task and job, and you’ve got been rigorously and judiciously chosen to operationalize the basic goals of this function…”, stated Dr Severin.
Regarding the goal, “To encourage Caribbean integration and the CARICOM Single Market and Economic system (CSME)”, Dr Severin instructed the Ambassadors that it was time for the Area’s folks to take management of integration.
“It isn’t going to occur as readily because it ought to if left to the highest. As residents of the Area, we should be understanding and sort to one another; we should embrace our variations and never see one as superior and one other as inferior. We should espouse the spirit of cultural relativity and eschew cultural ethnocentrism. To make sure, now we have a lot in frequent and our curiosity and survival rely upon us collaborating”, acknowledged Dr Severin.
Additional, Dr Severin urged the Ambassadors to be robust advocates for The UWI generally and the World Campus particularly. “Develop an eagerness and keenness for this nice Caribbean establishment of upper schooling. Replicate on how privileged we’re to be a part of this basic progress engine”.
He implored the Ambassadors to additionally ponder on the various lives the World Campus has touched in constructive and priceless methods. “Go to the nooks and crannies of our communities, our cities, our hamlets and our countrysides, and let all know what a priceless useful resource now we have and that we will both protect it or lose it. The selection is in our arms”, Dr Severin reminded the digital viewers.
Celia Davidson Francis, Director of Alumni Relations, in her remarks, indicated that The UWI STAT was in its seventeenth 12 months and the ceremony gives a chance to have a good time the successes, the achievements and the traditions which have been established.
She defined that within the 17 years of the UWI STAT’s existence, 14 Ambassadors have grow to be Rhodes Students, and lots of have grow to be UK Chevening Students, Commonwealth Students and Queen’s Younger Leaders.
Additional, there are over 400 Alumni Ambassadors worldwide who’re Basic Managers of Firms and Banks, Ministers of Authorities, Deputy Mayors, Scientists and extra. “UWI STAT definitely prepares and nurtures leaders! Alumni Ambassadors represent a priceless skilled community”, Davidson-Francis acknowledged.
“You’re the essence and soul of what’s required as future leaders – and may make an impression whereas at The UWI, and sooner or later as graduates and Alumni Ambassadors of your College. As you develop as leaders in your numerous fields, you’ll assist assure that the Caribbean stays secure, resilient and productive… I’m certain that your constructive considering mixed together with your constructive actions will end in success for yourselves, for the Area and your Alma Mater”, stated Davidson-Francis.
Sandra Griffith-Carrington, Campus Alumni Officer, congratulated the brand new Ambassadors and indicated that the coaching that they’d obtained has made them totally cognisant of their function within the UWI Triple ‘A’ Technique of Entry, Alignment and Agility. “I’m assured that you’ll execute your duties because the Vice-Chancellor’s Ambassadors professionally as collectively we work to protect the superb requirements of our prestigious College. Might all of us endeavour to be true representatives of the Mild Rising from the West – with The UWI first in our hearts… and all the time, … first in our Area”, Griffith-Carrington acknowledged.
4 UWI STAT Ambassadors who served with distinction over the interval 2020 – 2023 had been additionally honoured on the Ceremony and declared Alumni Ambassadors. They’re Annissa Moulon, Tamara Patten, Ariel Albert and Kisone Ferguson.
Albert who responded on behalf of the Alumni Ambassadors inspired the Ambassadors to capitalise on introduced alternatives and to not solely symbolize the College in official capacities but additionally for his or her private improvement in areas of management and staff collaboration. On behalf of her fellow UWI Alumni Ambassadors, she acknowledged, “I gratefully embrace the popularity bestowed upon us. It’s an honour to proceed representing The UWI in an official capability. We are going to proceed to try for excellence, work diligently, and showcase our Pelican Pleasure.”
Christianna Paul, probably the most excellent UWI STAT Ambassador in accepting the cost on behalf of the newly inducted Ambassadors acknowledged, “As we embark on this exceptional journey as UWI STAT Ambassadors, we achieve this with a profound sense of accountability, ardour, and dedication. We’re entrusted with the duty of serving our UWI neighborhood, our fellow college students, and our alumni. We’re right here to advertise accountable citizenship, volunteerism, and the wealthy Caribbean tradition and values that outline us.”
“As UWI STAT Ambassadors, we’re united by a typical objective – to be the Vice-Chancellor’s Ambassadors and to serve with the utmost excellence, to foster a way of unity and satisfaction amongst our fellow college students, and to hold ahead the traditions and values that make The College of the West Indies distinctive. Let our actions converse louder than our phrases, and our footprints lay the trail for others to return. Collectively, we are going to proceed to serve and lead, embodying the spirit of UWI and proudly selling the excellence it represents with Pelican Pleasure”, Paul acknowledged.
The UWI World Campus congratulates our UWI STAT Ambassadors and needs them success on this essential function of service and management and the creation of loyalty and Pelican Pleasure amongst college students and alumni.
