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IUC appoints three new regional pro-chancellors

Published:Saturday | December 3, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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The International University of the Caribbean's (IUC) three newly introduced pro-chancellors at the introduction ceremony and luncheon at IUC's Sir Howard Cooke Campus in Montego Bay on Tuesday. From left: Everoy Chin, the pro-chancellor for North Middlesex and Portland; Dr Cecile Walden, for Cornwall; and Keith Smith, for South Middlesex.
Gary Allen, managing director of RJR Communications Group, chats with Kathy Cooke, external affairs manager at Jamaica Public Service Company's Western Region, during the International University of the Caribbean's ceremony at the Sir Howard Cooke campus in Montego Bay on Tuesday.- Photo by Christopher Thomas
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Christopher Thomas, Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU:The International University of the Caribbean (IUC) has appointed three new pro-chancellors to serve as its representatives for Cornwall, North Middlesex and Portland, and South Middlesex.

Dr Cecile Walden, Everoy Chin, and Keith Smith were presented to IUC representatives and other guests during an introduction ceremony and luncheon at the university's Sir Howard Cooke Campus in Montego Bay on Tuesday.

They were officially installed in their new posts on Thursday, December 1.

"The three pro-chancellors are intended to provide another opportunity to communicate our commitment to the strongest possible leadership in our regions," explained Dr Maitland Evans, IUC president.

"Each of our regions has a vice-president as its academic leadership, and a regional dean as the academic gatekeeper for the programmes here."

Walden, who will be pro-chancellor for Cornwall, is a justice of the peace for St James and currently works as a programme consultant at the Sir Howard Cooke Campus. Smith, chosen as pro-chancellor for South Middlesex, is an attorney-at-law who has worked with IUC's Mandeville team on property acquisition. Chin, slated for North Middlesex and Portland, is a businessman and recipient of IUC's first Peace Award.

"We have a great build-up of senior executive staff. The pro-chancellor is the senior honorary staff who represents the face of IUC and part of the bridging with the community, and the access to some of the resources which are required to ensure that the campus continues to grow and respond to the needs of the community," added Evans.

'wonderful campus'

The official opening of the Sir Howard Cooke Campus, which was acquired a year ago, is slated for December 13.

"We've spent most of the year refurbishing it. The total refurbishing cost is in excess of $15 million, but now, it is a wonderful campus with lots of facilities for the students. It caters for the just under 500 students who are part of this regional arrangement," Evans remarked.

"The money has come about through the capital provision that was made by the university itself, and through the generosity of a number of persons who are sharing in the vision and the outreach to the community, to the city, that this campus embodies."

IUC was officially founded in 2005 by the United Church in Jamaica and The Cayman Islands and has 20 campuses islandwide. It offers a wide variety of programmes of study, including business, hospitality, nursing, and community development, programme and project management, psychology, theology, and general studies.