The University of the West Indies St Augustine Campus

The University of the West Indies (UWI) was founded in 1948 in Mona, Jamaica, as the University College of the West Indies. Its establishment was based on a recommendation by the Asquith Commission to review the state of higher education in the then-British colonies. In 1962, 14 years after the Mona campus opened, the college received independent university status, in the same year that Jamaica received independence from Great Britain. A regional university, Trinidad's main campus, St. Augustine, began in 1960 and was borne out of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. Barbados' Cave Hill campus came on stream three years later. The satellite campus in Mount Hope, Trinidad, housing the Faculty of Medical Sciences, was later added. UWI Open Campus was opened in 2008. It was the culmination of previous iterations of UWI extra-mural and distance-learning institutions. In 2019, the Five Islands campus in Antigua and Barbuda was launched. The four locations have key faculties common to all the territories: Humanities and Education, for instance, and Social Sciences, all mainstream disciplines. St. Augustine, however, is the only campus that boasts a Faculty of Food and Agriculture, an area of expertise that has long been interwoven into the history of the Caribbean islands. At UWI, as a core value, a social, academic, and administrative culture that supports and promotes gender equality and justice within its environments is actively created and sustained. Moreover, our faculty, staff, and student body foster a culture and work/study environment that welcomes different ideas and perspectives and acknowledges and values diversity. Thus, our community is inclusive of and affirms the dignity of all persons regardless of race, socio-economic status, age, sex, gender identity and expression, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, family or marital status, national origin, language, political or religious persuasion, and health status. Additionally, we en