Professor Kenneth Hall
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History of the
Mona Academic Conference
The Mona Academic Conference was initiated in 1999 by Professor
Kenneth Hall, Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the Mona
Campus of The University of the West Indies. The Conference
serves as a forum to bring together academics, policy makers
in the public and private sector, representatives from civil
society, as well as representatives from regional and international
organisations, to discuss issues of critical importance to the
region and to formulate concrete proposals that could inform
policy choices by governments and other stakeholders.
The Conference is held at the beginning of each academic
year in order to expose new students to the discussion of
issues of special importance to the Caribbean. The papers
presented at the Conference are normally published in book
form and it has become the convention to present copies to
the CARICOM Heads of Government at their annual meetings or
as appropriate, at their intercessional meetings depending
on the timing of the publication. To date, five academic conferences
have been held on: The Caribbean in the 21st Century (1999);
Human Resources Development and Workplace Management (2000);
Health (2001); Governance (2002); and Gender in the 21st Century:
Perspectives, Visions, and Possibilities (2003).
The theme of the 2004 Conference is Revisiting Tertiary
& Higher Education Policy in Jamaica: Towards Personal
Gain or Public Good? This conference is once again
being organised and sponsored by the Office of the Principal
in association with the Research and Policy Group, Mona School
of Business and the Office of the Michael Manley Professor
of Public Policy/Public Affairs.
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