UWI, SUNY to launch Centre for Leadership and Sustainable Development

THE University of the West Indies (UWI) has aligned its 2017-2022 Strategic Plan around the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 

Word of this comes from UWI Vice-Chancellor, Sir Hilary Beckles. He was at the time making his contribution to the Roundtable: Rethinking Progress in the Caribbean, held during the launch of the 2016 Caribbean Human Development Report (HDR) – Multidimensional Progress: Human Resilience Beyond Income.

 

“I just came out of the process of strategic planning. We have built the next Strategic Plan of this regional university around the 2030 Goals and we are building vehicles in order to do this,” he pointed out, revealing that next week in New York, the university will be launching the UWI-SUNY Centre for Leadership and Sustainable Development.

 

“The SUNY Group of Universities is the largest university network in North America,” he said.

 

The Centre will offer double degrees at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels; joint research and professional training – certificate and continuing adult education. However, joint projects are already under way in the areas of Marine Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Climate Change, Health and Distance Education.

 

“We are partnering with them to build a new institution based in New York to focus around these 2030 Goals, to build the capacity of our regional university with the capacity of one of the largest universities in the world, in order to deliver these outcomes.”

 

Sir Hilary further explained, “We are doing these things because we recognise the constraints within our jurisdiction to achieve the targets that we want to achieve.” (TL)