b'Improving the Quality of Teaching, Learning and Student Development(contd)tointeractwiththeLeaderoftheOpposition,A major and welcomed initiative was the consolidationConsequently,thePharmacyProgrammeatThe Dr. Peter Phillips. It gave students the opportunityof the collaboration between the Western JamaicaUWI deems it a necessity to incorporate this level to have meaningful dialogue about issues of publicCampus(WJC)andMonaSocialServices(MSS).of training for its student body, as well as providing concern and use inquiry and collaboration to activelyTheUWITownshipScholarshipwasextendedtotraining for practicing pharmacists who are interested addressreal-worldproblems.TheFacultyalsostudents at the WJC and 30 Violence Interruptersin specializing in CSP.hosted numerous members of the diplomatic core,in Montego Bay were trained in grief counselling byTargeted Interventions including: the Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica,theMonaSocialServicesinpartnershipwiththe Shri Sevala Naik on February 23, 2020, who heldMinistry of Justice and other partners in communityAlthoughtheFacultyofSocialSciences(FSS) discussionssurroundingIndiasgrowingroleasadevelopment. continued to experience a high demand for most of globalstakeholder;AmbassadorDonaldTapia,USitsprogrammes,targetedinterventionsweremade AmbassadortoJamaicaonMarch2,2020,whoInnovation and continuous trainingtoimproveenrolmentinspecificprogrammes,as facilitated discussions surrounding US foreign policywell as to enhance the overall student experience.anditsevolution;andAmbassadorMalgorzataStudentsregisteredinGEND2002(GenderinFor example, in Semester I of the AY 2019-2020, a 40 Wasilewksa and her team from the Delegation of theCaribbeanCulture:Linguistics,PopularCulturenumber of activities were undertaken by the Faculty.41European Union (EU) on May 2019, to acknowledgeandLiterature)attheInstituteforGenderandThese included expanding the Weekend Programme the partnership between Jamaica and the EU. TheseDevelopment Studies, Mona Unit (IGDS MU), wereand broadening the student experience by including discussionsopenedavenuesforgreaterresearchintroducedtowritingcontentforWikipedia.InanAcademicAdvisingInitiativeforUndergraduate collaborations between staff and students and forresponse to this innovation in education, Wikipediastudents,research-relatedseminarsforGraduate expert exchanges from these diplomatic bodies.offeredtohostanonlineweek-longeditathon,students, a Growth Mindset intervention for Required WikiCaribbeanEarthWeek,duringtheweekoftoWithdraw(RtW)Students,aswellasnumerous Inter-institutional Partnerships andApril 20, 2020, to prepare them to complete theiritremainsakeysiteforcriticalinterventionandpartnerships,collaborationsandstudentexchange Field Visits assignment.Training topics included: Focusing oncontribution by our students and faculty.opportunities from which students could benefit.The Institute for Gender and Development Studies,ChangingLandscapesandCriticalConversationsTheFacultyofMedicalSciencesalsoidentifiedBuilding Resilience during Remote Mona Unit (IGDS MU) arranged field visits to entitiesfor a Brave New World.The content submitted bythe need to improve the Pharmacy Department byTeaching and Learning acrosstheMonaCampustoenhancelearningintwo students registered in the course was selected GEND3032(GenderClimateChangeandDisasterfor higher level approval, and possible inclusion onimplementingaSterileCompoundingPharmacyThe Faculty of Social Sciences played a key role in Risk Management). These visits were facilitated bythe Wikipedia site. Since its creation on January 15,(SCP) Laboratory to support teaching, research andmanaging students stress by assisting them to build TheUWIsInstituteforSustainableDevelopment2001, Wikipedia has grown into the worlds largestpublic health. Sterile compounding is the preparationresilience through online challenges and through the (ISD), The UWI Physics Department Climate Studiesreference website, attracting 1.7 billion unique visitorsofcustommedicationsfreeofanycontaminantsallocation of devices that helped them to transition Group; and Environmental Solutions Limited (ESL).monthly, as of November 2020.Despite skepticismorparticlestomaintainpatientsafety.Currently,more smoothly to remote teaching and learning. In the The students were asked to assess how gender andabout its accuracy, there are sufficient checks andinsufficientattentionisplacedonthetrainingoffirst days of online learning, a video entitled Rooster disasterriskmanagementissueswereaddressedbalances placed on entries by its English Languagepharmacy students in this specialization due to theDisturbs Online Class was circulated on social media ineachorganization.TheIGDSMUalsoprovidedadministrators and Wikipedia offers one of the bestlack of the required sterile spaces needed to facilitatebytheJamaicaStarwhichfeaturedalecturerin recommendationstoenabletheorganizationstosites for ensuring that regional and cultural biaseshands-on training locally.A lab of this kind wouldthe Department of Economics requesting one of his mainstream gender in their policies and programmes. in information are relieved. Growing in importance,bethefirstintheEnglish-SpeakingCaribbean. students to mute her microphone after a rooster was ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 Realigning our Resources with Resilience and Resourcefulness'