University of the West Indies - wikipedia University of the West Indies This article is about the West Indies university in the English - speaking Caribbean. For the University of the French West Indies, see University of the French West Indies and Guiana. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2012 ) University of the West Indies Motto Oriens Ex Occidente Lux ( Latin ) Motto in English A Light Rising From The West Type Regional university Public, Autonomous Established 1948 Chancellor Mr. Robert Bermudez Vice-Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles Academic staff 1,200 + Students 36,000 + ( across 4 campuses ) Campus Mona, Jamaica Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Cave Hill, Barbados Debe, Trinidad and Tobago ( under construction ) Affiliations Association of Commonwealth Universities ( ACU ) Mascot The Pelican Website www.uwi.edu St Augustine UWI Campus The University of the West Indies ( UWI ) is a public university system serving 18 English - speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean : Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda The Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Dominica Grenada Guyana Jamaica Montserrat St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands Each of these countries is either a member of the Commonwealth of Nations or a British Overseas Territory. The aim of the university is to help `` unlock the potential for economic and cultural growth '' in the West Indies, thus allowing for improved regional autonomy. The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London. Since the University 's inception, students and faculty have been recognized in fields ranging from the arts and sciences, to business, politics, and sports. Notable alumni and faculty include three U.W.I. ( Mona ) Nobel Laureates, sixty - one Rhodes Scholars, 18 current or former Caribbean Heads of Government, and an Olympic medalist. The university 's cricket team previously participated in West Indian domestic cricket, but now participates as part of a Combined Campuses and Colleges team. This university consists of three physical campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados and the Open Campus. There are satellite campuses in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago and Montego Bay, Jamaica, and a Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management in Nassau, Bahamas. The other contributing countries are served by the Open Campus which has a physical presence and Heads of Sites in each of the 18 countries. There are International Programmes for universities in the USA, Canada, China, Japan, United Kingdom, Brazil and Mexico such as University of Toronto, McGill University, Osaka Gakuin University, China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai University, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Emory University, University of Massachusetts, the University of Guelph, Yale University, King 's College London, St Andrews University, Northeastern University, Stockholm University, University of California, Sophia University, University of Illinois and Universidad de Quintana Roo. Contents 1 History 2 Notable faculty and administrators 3 Notable alumni 4 See also 5 References 6 External links 6.1 Campus websites 6.2 Other links History Book shelves UWI Library The university was founded in 1948, on the recommendation of the Asquith Commission through its sub-committee on the West Indies chaired by Sir James Irvine. The Asquith Commission had been established in 1943 to review the provision of higher education in the British colonies. Initially in a special relationship with the University of London, the then University College of the West Indies ( UCWI ) was seated at Mona, about five miles from Kingston, Jamaica. The university was based at a camp used by evacuated Gibraltarians during the war. The University College achieved independent university status in 1962. The St Augustine Campus in Trinidad, formerly the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture ( ICTA ), was established in 1960, followed by the Cave Hill Campus in Barbados in 1963. Before the establishment of the Open Campus, University Centres, headed by a Resident Tutor, were established in each of the other thirteen contributing territories. Each of the physical campuses has faculties common to all of the campuses, such as Humanities & Education and Social Sciences. Cave Hill and Mona have the Faculty of Science & Technology while St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, houses the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Agriculture under the Faculty of Agriculture and Sciences. Cave Hill, Barbados and Mona, Jamaica and St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago has a full Faculty of Law. Both Mona, Jamaica, and St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, have the Faculty of Medicine. In 2008 Cave Hill accepted the first students at their Faculty of Medicine. Previously, they only accommodated students in the final two years in the medical program at their School of Medicine which was located at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. St. Augustine also has the Faculty of Engineering. In 1950, HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the last surviving granddaughter of Queen Victoria, became the first Chancellor of the University College of the West Indies. Sir William Arthur Lewis was the first Vice-Chancellor under the UWI 's independent Charter. A native of St Lucia, he served as the first West Indian Principal of the UCWI from 1958 to 1960 and as Vice-Chancellor from 1960 to 1963. He was succeeded by Sir Philip Sherlock ( a Jamaican and one of the UWI 's founding fathers ) who served as Vice-Chancellor from 1963 to 1969. Sir Roy Marshall, a Barbadian, was the next Vice-Chancellor, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was succeeded by Dr Aston Zachariah Preston, a Jamaican, who died in office on June 24, 1986 having served from 1974. The fifth Vice-Chancellor was Sir Alister McIntyre, who served from 1988 to 1998, followed by alumnus and Professor Emeritus Rex Nettleford who served from 1998 to 2004. The current Vice-Chancellor is Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, who succeeded Professor E. Nigel Harris in May 2015. Current enrollment across the four campuses is 56,000. Notable Faculty and administrators Hilary Beckles : historian, vice-chancellor from May 2015. Dr. Daniel Coore : Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at UWI Mona Campus Dr. Elsa Goveia first female professor of UCWI and noted pioneer in West Indian historiography Dr. Patrick Hosein : Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at UWI St Augustine Campus William Arthur Lewis : Economist, lecturer, author and joint winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics of 1979. Albert Belville Lockhart : Consultant and Ophthalmologist, Recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit, co-inventor of Canasol Sam Mc Daniel : - B. Sc. UWI Mona Jamaica, M.A. ( Biostatistics ), Harvard University, Ph. D, Harvard University Manley Elisha West : Professor of Pharmacology, Recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit, co-inventor of Canasol Dr. Kim Mallalieu : Senior Lecturer in Computer and Electrical Engineering at UWI ST Augustine Professor St. Clair King : Professor Emeritus in Computer and Electrical Engineering at UWI St. Augustine Orlando Patterson : John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University Sir Derek Walcott studied at the University of the West Indies Notable alumni UWI graduates who are, or have been, heads of government : Kenny Anthony, former prime minister of St. Lucia Owen Arthur, former prime minister of Barbados Dean Barrow, prime minister of Belize Denzil Douglas, former prime minister of St. Kitts & Nevis Rufus Ewing, premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands Bruce Golding, former prime minister of Jamaica Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines David A. Granger, president of Guyana Andrew Holness, prime minister of Jamaica Patrick Manning, former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago Keith Mitchell, prime minister of Grenada Joseph Walcott Parry, former premier of Nevis P.J. Patterson, former prime minister of Jamaica Kamla Persad - Bissessar, first female prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago Keith Rowley : prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, former prime minister of Barbados Kennedy A. Simmonds, former prime minister of St. Kitts & Nevis Orlando Smith, chief minister of the British Virgin Islands Freundel Stuart, prime minister of Barbados David Thompson, former prime minister of Barbados Hubert Minnis, prime minister of The Bahamas Graduates in other fields : Sharon Aarons, Australian soil scientist Faris Al - Rawi, Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago Fae Ellington, Jamaican media personality and lecturer Marlon James, Jamaican - born winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Dolliver Nelson, member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Kris Rampersad, journalist, author, cultural advocate Patrick Lipton Robinson, judge of the International Court of Justice Dame Anita Allen, president of the Court of Appeal of The Bahamas Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political activist Richard Sealy, Barbadian Tourism Minister Shafimana Ueitele, Namibian lawyer Burton P.C. Hall, judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and former Chief Justice of The Bahamas Adalbert `` Bert '' Tucker, Belize River Valley Development Program ( BELRIV ) Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize for Literature See also Jamaica portal University portal Association of Commonwealth Universities Caribbean Journal of International Relations & Diplomacy University of the West Indies Museum University of Guyana University of Trinidad and Tobago University of Technology, Jamaica University of the Bahamas University of the French West Indies University of French Guiana Savacou, a sculpture on the Mona site References Jump up ^ The University of the West Indies, A Quinquagenary Calendar 1948 - 1998, Douglas Hall, 1998. Jamaica, The Press, University of the West Indies Jump up ^ https://uwiarchives.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/happy-89th-birthday-to-the-visitor/ Jump up ^ `` The University of the West Indies - Open Campus ''. Retrieved 22 September 2014. Jump up ^ http://www.bcn.cl/obtienearchivo?id=documentos/10221.1/29331/2/213787.pdf Jump up ^ Report of the West Indies Committee of the Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies, Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty June 1945. London, His Majesty 's Stationery Office Jump up ^ Brown, Suzanne Francis ( 2006 ). Mona Past and Present : The History and Heritage of the Mona Campus, University of the West Indies p. 10 - 11. University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 9789766401597. Jump up ^ http://www.mona.uwi.edu/marcom/newsroom/entry/6333 Jump up ^ Higman, B.W. ( 1999 ). General History of the Caribbean. VI : Methodology and historiography of the Caribbean. London, England : UNESCO. ISBN 978 - 92 - 3 - 103360 - 5. Jump up ^ `` Dr. Elsa Goveia is dead ''. Kingston, Jamaica : The Daily Gleaner. 20 March 1980. Retrieved 14 January 2017 -- via Newspaperarchive.com. Jump up ^ https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/dcit/staff.asp ^ Jump up to : M.E. West and J. Homi. `` Cannabis as a medicine ''. Br. J. Anaesth ( 1996 ) 76 ( 1 ) : 167 doi : 10.1093 / bja / 76.1. 167 - a Jump up ^ http://www.mona.uwi.edu/mathematics/sam-mc-daniel Jump up ^ https://sta.uwi.edu/eng/electrical/staff/kim_mallalieu.asp Jump up ^ http://sta.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=562 Jump up ^ https://sta.uwi.edu/eng/electrical/staff/sc_king.asp Jump up ^ http://scholar.harvard.edu/patterson/home Jump up ^ http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/98415 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to University of the West Indies. Official website Campus websites Cave Hill Campus, Barbados Cave Hill School of Business Mona Campus, Jamaica St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago Western Jamaica Campus Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago Open Campus Other links Aerial view of Mona Campus List of Programmes offered through UWI The Cavite Chorale, One of the singing groups of the University of the West Indies UWI Student Mailing list List of universities and colleges in Jamaica Universities International University of the Caribbean Mico University College Northern Caribbean University University of the Commonwealth Caribbean University of Technology University of the West Indies Colleges College of Agriculture, Science and Education Durham College of Commerce Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports Hyacinth Chen Nursing School Jamaica Theological Seminary United Theological College of the West Indies Teacher training colleges Bethlehem Moravian College Moneague College Sam Sharpe Teachers College Shortwood Teacher College Saint Joseph 's Teachers ' College Community colleges Catholic College of Mandeville Knox Cobbla Knox Mandeville Knox May Pen Knox Spalding Universities in the United Kingdom England East Anglia Anglia Ruskin BPP Cambridge East Anglia Essex Norwich University of the Arts Suffolk London University of London Birkbeck City Courtauld Goldsmiths Heythrop Institute of Cancer Research KCL London Business School LSE LSHTM Queen Mary Royal Academy of Music RCSSD Royal Holloway Royal Veterinary College St George 's SOAS UCL Other BPP Brunel East London Greenwich Imperial Kingston Law London Met London South Bank Middlesex Regent 's University London Richmond, The American International University in London Royal College of Art Royal College of Music Roehampton St Mary 's University of the Arts London Westminster West London Midlands Aston BPP Birmingham Birmingham City Bishop Grosseteste Coventry De Montfort Derby Harper Adams Keele Law Leicester Lincoln Loughborough Newman Northampton Nottingham Nottingham Trent Staffordshire University College Birmingham Warwick Wolverhampton Worcester North Bolton BPP Bradford Central Lancashire Chester Cumbria Durham Edge Hill Huddersfield Hull Lancaster Law Leeds Leeds Beckett Leeds Trinity Liverpool Liverpool Hope Liverpool John Moores LSTM Manchester Manchester Metropolitan Newcastle Northumbria Salford Sheffield Sheffield Hallam Sunderland Teesside York York St. John South Arts University Bournemouth Ashridge Bath Bath Spa Bedfordshire Bournemouth BPP Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire New Canterbury Christ Church Chichester Cranfield Creative Arts Exeter Falmouth Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Kent Law Oxford Oxford Brookes Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Royal Agricultural University St Mark & St John Southampton Southampton Solent Surrey Sussex UWE Winchester Northern Ireland Queen 's Ulster Scotland Aberdeen Abertay Dundee Dundee Edinburgh Edinburgh Napier Glasgow Glasgow Caledonian Heriot - Watt Highlands and Islands Queen Margaret Robert Gordon Royal Conservatoire of Scotland St Andrews Stirling Strathclyde West of Scotland Wales Aberystwyth Bangor Cardiff Cardiff Metropolitan South Wales Swansea Swansea Metropolitan UW Trinity Saint David Wrexham Glyndŵr Overseas territories Bermuda College Cayman Islands Law School International College of the Cayman Islands Saint James School of Medicine St. Matthew 's University University of Gibraltar University College of the Cayman Islands University of Science, Arts and Technology University of the West Indies Crown dependencies University of the Channel Islands in Guernsey Non − geographic Lambeth degrees Open University University of London International Programmes Related List by date of foundation ( Third - oldest in England ) List by endowment List by enrollment Colleges within universities Degree abbreviations National Union of Students Rankings Undergraduate degree classification UCAS HEFCE Scottish Funding Council Commons List Coordinates : 18 ° 00 ′ 11 '' N 76 ° 44 ′ 40 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 18.0029784 ° N 76.744566 ° W ﻿ / 18.0029784 ; 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Question: when was the university of the west indies established
Answer: 1948