The Commuting Students’ Office was established to ensure the Commuting Students on the UWI Mona Campus are kept: Informed, Connected and Engaged. The Office facilitates structured qualitative co-curricular programs which are designed to develop or enhance the social, personal, interpersonal and professional competencies befitting of a UWI Student or Graduate. The Office also creates linkages and opportunities for students to connect with resources and services aimed at making their university campus life more comfortable, fulfilling and rewarding.
To provide opportunities for Commuting Students’ Holistic Development through a co- curricular and academic blend.
The Commuting Students Office Core Value is to RISE:
Respect, Integrity, Support, Equity
1. To ensure that commuting students are kept informed about facilities, programmes and
services that are available to them on campus
2. Promote excellence as a Complete experience (Co-Curricular and Academic Blend)
3. To create an environment for intellectual development through critical thinking and Problem
solving by designing, delivering and evaluating of qualitative co-curricular programmes
4. To create an environment where the following competencies can be developed or enhanced:
a. Identity Development (Self-awareness)
b. Interpersonal Development
c. Community and Global Engagement
d. Ethics and Equity
e. Professional Enhancement
Our 7 faculties and 12 professional schools offer more than 200 programmes to some 18,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students.
The UWI, Mona ranks first in Jamaica among accredited tertiary-level programmes. In 2012, the University was again one of Jamaica’s Top 100 Employers.
