b'Improving the Quality of Teaching, Learning and Student Development(contd)Dedicated Students Development1. Concordia UniversityCanada TheFacultyofSocialSciences(FSS)continued Programmes2. Universidade de Federal FluminenseBrazil collaboration with the International Office for Joint Bi-Weekly Glass-room Talks 3. Universit de Lige Belgium Degrees and Student and Staff Exchanges. These TheOfficeofStudentServicesandDevelopment4. Universidad de ValladolidSpain included:theMastersinPoliticsandInternational (OSSD)hostedabi-weeklyGlass-roomTalkon5. University of the Fraser ValleyCanada Cooperation(MPIC);theCanada-CARICOM Thursdaysat3:00pm,withliveorpre-recorded6. University of NipissingCanada ScholarshipProgrammeforUndergraduateand discussionswithstudents.Thesediscussionswere7. University of Alberta CanadaGraduateStudies;theLinnaeus-PalmeFellowship designed to encourage students, connect them with8. University of SaskatchewanCanada (School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, resources that were being made available to them -9. Vancouver Island UniversityCanada Sweden) for students and staff; and the Erasmus+ among these the services of the Counselling Unit and10. Kingston University LondonEngland International Credit Mobility Scholarships (University others that were geared to dispel anxieties associatedofValladolidinSpain).TwoFSSstudents,Miss withtheCoronaviruspandemic.ThefirstsessionNonewpartnershipswerefinalizedduringtheJessicaMayneandMr.RonaldoCaballero,were commenced on Thursday, April 16, 2020 with speakerAcademic Year 2019-2020. With the Campus initiatingable to spend a semester abroad at the University 46 itsemergencyprotocolsandmovingtothevirtualofValladolidinSpainaspartoftheMobility47Mrs.RasheenRoper-Robinsonwhoaddresseddeliveryofprogrammes,byJuly30,allexchange/ Scholarship scheme. The FSS also negotiated the students anxieties brought about by the sudden shiftstudy abroad students had returned to their hometerms of the Nettleford/McIntyre Semester at Oxford to online learning by talking them through the process Images of Glassroom Talk series countries.TheUWI,MonastudentswereabletoUniversityScholarshipandwidenedthescopeof and demonstrating coping mechanisms.Other talksreturn to Jamaica via chartered flights arranged bytheScholarshiptoincludeMScstudentsand/or included:Ms.KrystalTomlinson,Founderofthethe Government of Jamaica, Belize and St. Vincentjunior faculty involved in research on disadvantaged Success Farm Academy who spoke about Productivityand the Grenadines. On June 13, 2020, one hundredcommunities.Ms.Asha-GayeCowellwasthefirst andExercising.Ms.RochelleGapere,WellnessandStudent Internships andand ten students from Trinidad and Tobago returnedrecipientoftheNettleford/McIntyreSemesterat HappinessCoachandAttorneyurgedstudentsto takechargeoftheirhappinessbyjournalingtheirExchange Programmeshome by way of a chartered flight.More than 80% ofOxford University Scholarship.experiencesandunderstandingtheirpersonalthe non-Jamaican student population on and off the strengths and fears.Student Exchange ProgrammesCampus were returned to their home countries.All ofAttheFacultyofHumanitiesandEducation, TheInternationalStudentsOffice(ISO)deliveredthese repatriations were coordinated by the ISO. Ms.Justine-MarieWilliams,asecondyear AlldevelopmentalprogrammeswithintheOfficeofitsusualprogrammestolocalandinternational StudentServicesandDevelopmentembracedthestudentsparticipatingintheexchange/study currentrealityofdigitaltransformation.AllHallsofabroadprogramme,specialinternationalgroupStudent Numbers 2019/20Residence had robust systems in place utilizing bothtours, medical elective and clerkship students and humananddigitalresourcestomaintainstudentvisitingpartnerinstitutions.TheMonaCampus engagement in the richest sense. Programmes, suchcontinued to receive a number of interests for new as the Health and Wellness Programme, the Orientationpartnerships to be established or old partnerships Programme, and the First Year Experience Programmeto be expanded to include research initiatives.The werecompletelypivotedtomakethevirtualfollowingpartnershipagreementswererenewed environment a novel yet enriching and rewarding one.over the 2019/2020 period:ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 Realigning our Resources with Resilience and Resourcefulness'